NGL withdraws plans for South Portland fuel depot
After more than a year of trying to address some South Portland residents’ fears of a proposed liquefied petroleum, also known as propane, gas distribution terminal, NGL Energy Partners announced that it has withdrawn its plans to develop the depot.
“The location made sense in a certain way in that it was going into South Portland’s very large rail yard known as Rigby Yard,” Tex Haeuser, the city’s director of planning and development told the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. “But unfortunately the way the yard is laid out, they were proposing to put it at the place where it was closest to homes and businesses in the Cash Corner area of South Portland. So, it made people very nervous.”
According to the Portland Press Herald, officials at NGL said they are now looking at relocating the proposed depot to a more “welcoming, business-friendly community in Maine” and are eyeing several sites in southern Maine with railroad access.
“The company will look for other communities in southern Maine that will value the jobs, financial investment and tax revenues that the company can bring,” Michael Cuzzy, a spokesman for NGL, told MPBN.
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