Mayor Hedlund sends letter to CZM in response to lack of need

Mayor Hedlund wrote to Lisa Engler of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) to bring their attention to the lack of need for the gas that the compressor station would supply. Over the past few weeks, we have learned about multiple utility companies (i.e. National Grid and Eversource) stating that they would not need the gas. If there’s no need, why is Enbridge pushing to build the facility.

We send our thanks to Mayor Hedlund and the Town of Weymouth for continuing to stand with us in this fight. You can read Mayor Hedlund’s letter here.

The Patriot Ledger has more on this story - Hedlund says dwindling demand for pipeline capacity warrants compressor review (link)

Excerpt: “Mayor Robert Hedlund had opened a new line of attack in his towns’ fight against a proposed natural gas compressor station, arguing that state regulators should give the project another look because two companies that had contracted to use a pipeline that would be connected to the 7,700-horsepower station have pulled out of the project.

Hedlund sent a letter to Lisa Berry Engler, director of the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, on Friday saying that the justification for allowing a compressor station in a coastal zone was “already factually tenuous and, in the town’s view, legally inadequate,” but new information about natural gas capacity and demand warrants further review from the state.” (The Patriot Ledger, 2019)