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http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070413/NEWS/70413025

Delaware wins ruling against New Jersey in LNG case
By JEFF MONTGOMERY, The News Journal

Updated Friday, April 13, 2007 at 7:06 pm

A liquefied natural gas plant was proposed for the New Jersey shoreline (foreground) across the Delaware River from Claymont. The Delaware Memorial Bridge downriver is visible on the horizon.

News Journal file/BOB HERBERT
Delaware has the right to block a massive liquefied natural gas delivery pier proposed by energy giant BP for the New Jersey shore of the Delaware River, a U.S. Supreme Court special master has ruled.

In a ruling made public today, Special Master Ralph I. Lancaster concluded that Delaware, “as the sovereign owner of the land,” can regulate and police developments extending from New Jersey’s shoreline into the waterway.

The decision – still subject to Supreme Court review – amounts to a victory for Delaware officials who ruled BP’s proposal a violation of the state’s ban on new heavy industries and bulk unloading piers in the protected Coastal Zone

It also sharpens the meaning of a boundary that Delaware and New Jersey have disputed for more than three centuries. Terms of a pre-colonial deed issued to William Penn put all of the river inside Delaware, right up to the low-water mark on the New Jersey side, from the Pennsylvania line to the northern tip of Artificial Island.