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Last month Save the Harbor / Save the Bay and more than two dozen environmental, advocacy, marine trade and business groups including Boston Harbor Diving Company, City Water Taxi, Surfrider Foundation, The Sierra Club, Mass Audubon, The Environmental League of Massachusetts, Mass PIRG, the Massachusetts Marine Trades Association, the Massachusetts Boating and Yacht Clubs Association and the Massachusetts Lobstermans Association, announced their joint opposition to legislation introduced on behalf of the Virginia based AES Corporation to lease Outer Brewster Island in the Boston Harbor Islands National Park and turn it into the largest LNG facility and storage depot in the nation.
A copy of that statement and a complete list of the organizations involved are available on line for your review at http://www.savetheharbor.org
Outer Brewster and the fragile cluster of surrounding islands that make up Calf Bay and Brewster Cove are a spectacular natural and recreational resource, with stunning and historic views of Graves and Boston Light, the seaward gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands and the Harbor itself.
These outer islands and shallow bays are among the most popular recreational waters in the park with great fishing, sailing, birding, diving and boating.
The proposed LNG plant and the security zone that it would likely require would forever restrict access to this important part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park to recreational boaters, fisherman, lobsterman and sailors, as well as the kayakers and canoeists who consider these protected bays the jewels of the park.
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay is a non-profit, public interest environmental advocacy organization made up of citizens, scientists, civic, corporate, cultural and community leaders whose mission is to restore and protect Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay, and keep them clean forever for everyone to enjoy.
We hope members of the diving community will join us in opposing the AES legislation to convert Outer Brewster Island into the nations largest LNG Terminal.
If you have questions, want more information, or would like to be added to the list of "opposed individuals" and kept up to date on all new developments on this issue, please contact Lauren Thirer at 617-451-2860 ext. 103, or by email to thirer@savetheharbor.org.
Thanks for your support!
A copy of that statement and a complete list of the organizations involved are available on line for your review at http://www.savetheharbor.org
Outer Brewster and the fragile cluster of surrounding islands that make up Calf Bay and Brewster Cove are a spectacular natural and recreational resource, with stunning and historic views of Graves and Boston Light, the seaward gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands and the Harbor itself.
These outer islands and shallow bays are among the most popular recreational waters in the park with great fishing, sailing, birding, diving and boating.
The proposed LNG plant and the security zone that it would likely require would forever restrict access to this important part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park to recreational boaters, fisherman, lobsterman and sailors, as well as the kayakers and canoeists who consider these protected bays the jewels of the park.
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay is a non-profit, public interest environmental advocacy organization made up of citizens, scientists, civic, corporate, cultural and community leaders whose mission is to restore and protect Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay, and keep them clean forever for everyone to enjoy.
We hope members of the diving community will join us in opposing the AES legislation to convert Outer Brewster Island into the nations largest LNG Terminal.
If you have questions, want more information, or would like to be added to the list of "opposed individuals" and kept up to date on all new developments on this issue, please contact Lauren Thirer at 617-451-2860 ext. 103, or by email to thirer@savetheharbor.org.
Thanks for your support!
