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Calais LNG said it, we didn't!
Not to be outdone by Downeast LNG and Quoddy Bay LLC,
Calais LNG is coming up with its own goofball statements.
See our other pages, Quoddy Bay LLC said it… & Downeast LNG said it…
Arthur Gelber Wants Maine Taxpayers' to Pay for Calais LNG's Pipeline
Arthur Gelber, of Calais LNG Project Company —
"… Maine could actually own and finance such a [natural gas] pipeline at a more advantageous rate than industry. … Governor, I would like to arrange a meeting with you and my team, along with the Commissioner for Transportation and the head of the Turnpike Authority, to discuss a natural gas pipeline traversing the Maine Energy Corridors as a more viable and less predatory alternative to [Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline]."
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Calais LNG letter to Maine Governor John Baldacci, 2010 Aug 12 (PDF; 52 KB).
Webmaster’s Comments: On the day after Calais LNG was supposed to — but did not — have a new investor after financial powerhouse Goldman Sachs deserted the project, Calais LNG asked the Governor of Maine to pay for and own a new 343-mile natural gas pipeline from Calais to Boston, rather than expand the existing Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (M&NE) or have private enterprise build and own it.
There are 343 miles of M&NE natural gas pipeline from Baileyville to Boston*. At $2 million per mile, Calais LNG wants around $686 million from Maine taxpayers to help out an unneeded and unviable project.
* Spectra Energy's Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline assets webpage
Ian Emery's Perception of Reality
Ian Emergy, of Calais LNG Project Company, regarding Goldman Sachs deserting his project —
“There is a little hiccup here, a little bump in the road, and we are going to get through it.”
— “Calais LNG project will continue, vows project manager,” The Saint Croix Courier, 2010 Jul 27. [Free registration required.]
Webmaster's Comments: Goldman Sachs' financial desertion is merely a "hiccup"? It is recognition that Calais LNG has no value.
Ian Emery Loves Canada
Ian Emergy, of Calais LNG Project Company, in response to Save Passamaquoddy Bay/Canada’s Aug 20 annual meeting in which Member of Parliament and Cabinet Greg Thompson once again emphatically stated that Canada will not allow LNG ships into Passamaquoddy Bay, Ian Emery stated —
“It's really time to sit down and talk about this. We have an American and a Canadian flag hanging in front of the office. We are open and genuine. We could help them work on the new study. This could benefit both sides of the border.”
“We are not the big bad wolf here and we will hear what the Canadians are saying. We want to be engaged with the Canadian Government, with Ottawa, and with the people of New Brunswick.
“Canada is our friend. New Brunswick is our friend.
“We need to do things together that will bring the project forward. They need to know what the benefits are and what the consequences can be.”— “Calais LNG reacts to Canadian Head Harbour stance,” The Calais Advertiser, 2008 Aug 28 (story is not available online).
Webmaster's Comments: Apparently, hearing “NO!” repeatedly coming from the Canadian government “doesn’t count” in “hearing what the Canadians are saying” in Ian Emery’s one-way international love-fest.
Calais LNG’s behavior is unsettlingly and repeatedly like that of a stalker!
Arthur Gelber's “Good Neighbor” Hypocrisy
Arthur Gelber, of Calais LNG Project Company (formerly, "BP Consulting," "St. Croix Consulting," "St. Croix Development," "Calais LNG," "Northeast Energy," and "Calais Maine LNG Import Terminal"), displaying his disingenuous "good neighbor" policy by expecting Canadians to accept economic, health, and safety risks from his poorly-sited project in Maine —
"We're hopeful the Canadians will be good neighbors. … We hope that as neighbors in the spirit of cooperation, that we can find common ground between what we're doing and what they're doing. We have interests, they have interests. There are things that they want to do that involve us as there are things we want to do that involve them."
— "Calais Officials Hear From Calais LNG Officials" WQDY FM, 2008 Apr 8.