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A Community Warms to Algonquin Gas
What if you had to close schools, hospitals and factories because there just wasn’t enough clean natural gas to go around on the coldest winter days? What if every fourth house had to go without natural gas just when you needed it most?
For 20 years Rhode Islanders saw the big white tank on the Providence waterfront, but knew very little about what was inside.
But when a local activist launched a scare campaign designed to remove the liquefied natural gas (LNG) tank so he could develop the waterfront, the tank’s owners turned to us.
We responded to questions from the neighborhood and concerns in the legislature about the facility, explaining the crucial role of the LNG facility in meeting the demand for natural gas during peak usage on cold winter days. We hosted tours of the tank for federal, state and local officials, and secured a gubernatorial veto of a legislative "study commission" bill - a thinly disguised first step in having the tank dismantled.
When it was all over and all the questions had been answered, Rhode Island never had to face the really tough question, the question the tank was designed to answer – "Why isn’t there enough gas?"