It seems incomprehensible that anyone would think of breaking that up.” “It’s a pretty dense property and part of the state’s last contiguous forest canopy. “There’s few places left in Rhode Island with this type of tree canopy,” Paul Roselli, president of the Burrillville Land Trust, recently told ecoRI News. The area’s woods are home to some 165 wildlife species, including the hairy woodpecker, the black-throated green warbler, the wood frog, eastern box turtle, big brown bat and the six-spotted tiger beetle. It’s been estimated that at least 200 acres of forestland would be impacted if a second fossil-fuel power plant is foisted upon Burrillville, joining 560-megawatt Ocean State Power. Largely forgotten amidst all the talk about jobs, noise, taxes, pollution and terrorism is the impact the proposed natural-gas power plant would have on an ecosystem that is quickly fading from the Rhode Island landscape: contiguous forest. Newport Public Schools were closed Tuesday, and the district said it would “keep families updated as best as possible…regarding any future school closures.” The district had opened a warming center at Gaudet Middle School in Middletown. Natural gas flows were reportedly cut by more than 1 Bcf/d on Tetco, an Enbridge subsidiary, and the impacts were felt as far away as Louisiana.
It was unclear if an explosion Monday evening on the Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) system in southeast Ohio was related to the incident in Rhode Island. “Once we get in and shut off those customers today, we will then regas that section of Middletown and start relighting Middletown.” At the time of Tuesday’s press conference, he said gas service had been physically shut off to about 305 customers, with the remaining 35 shutoffs expected to be performed Tuesday. Horan said about 340 customers in Middletown were affected by the disruption. However, on Monday night, “the pressure here dropped so much, from Route 138 south that we made the decision, all on safety, to shut off this part of Newport.” North of Route 138, “the pressure stayed high enough for us to keep the system running safely.” “The integrity of our system is safe and intact,” Horan said. Monday, creating an underpressure issue that hit the southern end of the island the most, which includes Newport and parts of Middletown. National Grid Rhode Island President Tim Horan said the utility noticed a lack of supply coming from Algonquin at about 11 p.m. This is going to be a multi-day event, possibly a week or longer.” The governor said National Grid would reimburse or provide vouchers for hotels. “My primary message to people is that it is not safe to stay in your house. Of course, we continue to monitor it, but all things considered we were able to get through the night.
“The good news is that at this point in time, there are no reports of any major injuries, fatalities or hospitalizations. “This situation is still very serious,” Raimondo said during a press conference Tuesday. The outage area includes the cities of Middletown and Newport. Raimondo declared a state of emergency in Newport County, which includes Aquidneck Island, and activated the Rhode Island National Guard. “We know how important your gas service and safety is, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused, especially in the cold weather.” The area is safe, it said, and the situation is under control.
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