CURRAN TO GOVERNOR: OPPOSE THE PORT AMBROSE DEEPWATER PORT

Assemblyman Brian Curran (Lynbrook – 21st A.D.) once again is urging Gov. Cuomo to oppose the Liberty Port Ambrose Deepwater Port, or offshore Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility, by Liberty Natural Gas, LLC. The Port Ambrose project is a marine facility for off-loading LNG proposed for construction off Long Beach and South Shore. In a second letter to the governor, Curran outlines community opposition to the project.

“Due to the prospective negative environmental and economic impacts this will have on Long Island’s communities, I believe it is imperative to oppose this project,” said Curran in his letter to Cuomo. “I have received calls from constituents across my district, including East Rockaway and Oceanside, as well as from Island Park and Long Beach families, stating their resistance to this proposal, and many local officials have spoken of their opposition as well. This project poses a significant threat to the public health and safety of the ocean beach community and other Long Island communities, as well as the fragile environmental ecosystems that currently exist in the waters off Long Island’s south shore”

According to Liberty’s website, two buoys would be tethered to the ocean floor to connect ships to a proposed undersea pipeline that would deliver into existing gas infrastructures on Long Island.

“I’m a lifelong resident of Long Island; raising my children here is important to me, as it is for all the families here who have the opportunity to live and enjoy Long Island’s safe and picturesque beach lines,” said Curran. “Our children deserve to grow with and enjoy these beaches, just like we did. As such, I can never support a project that will jeopardize the beach lines, north or south shore, that I and many others have grown up with.”

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Editor’s Note: Attached is Assemblyman Curran’s second letter to Gov. Cuomo.