WHY FALL RIVER?
Fall River is a city of approximately 92,000 people, located in southeastern Massachusetts at the juncture of the Taunton River and the Mount Hope Bay. The city has a rich industrial past, and was one of the great textile manufacturing centers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Immigrant populations streamed into the city to work in the booming textile industry, creating a rich diversity of cultures. By the mid-twentieth century, the textile industry had begun a rapid decline, losing businesses to competitors in the south and overseas. Since that time, the city has struggled to diversify its economy and balance manufacturing, industrial and service sector employment. The 73-acre site – historically known as Weaver’s Cove – is two miles north of Battleship Cove on the eastern bank of the Taunton River (See figure below). The location has the attributes required for development as an LNG terminal – deepwater access for the ocean-going tankers, sufficient land area to allow
