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January 21, 2008

Calais LNG project still on the table

After a hiatus from the public spotlight, the developers behind the third proposal for a liquefied natural gas facility in Washington County were back last week promoting their plan.

Rep. Ian Emery (R-Cutler) has created Calais LNG Project Co. with partners Arthur Gelber, a Houston-based LNG consultant, and Carl Myers, a retired utility executive from Pennsylvania, according to the Bangor Daily News. Calais LNG Project Co. wants to build a LNG facility on a 360-acre site outside Calais. The project is two years behind the other proposals for LNG facilities on Passamaquoddy Bay in the long process of receiving regulatory approval.

Siting LNG facilities Down East has been a controversial subject, and the Calais project has not escaped scrutiny. While Gelber told the Daily News that the Calais LNG project "will have the smallest environmental footprint of any of the LNG facilities proposed," a spokesman for Save Passamaquoddy Bay, a group opposed to LNG facilities, called Calais LNG "the absolute worst of the three projects," citing its need for LNG tankers to navigate around St. Croix Island and up the St. Croix River.

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