‘Not in our backyard:’ Gas plant to power cruise ships could be built near Merritt Island neighborhood

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Some have serious concerns about where an energy company wants to build a plant to fuel the world’s busiest cruise port.

The liquefied natural gas plant wouldn’t be built at Port Canaveral.

Its proposed location would be close to a large neighborhood in Merritt Island.

The port just reclaimed the title as the world’s busiest cruise port, and to power all those big ships, the port needs more LNG.

However, just like the port is challenged with space for new terminals, it’s also challenged with where to put a plant.

The port owns undeveloped land west of the port on the barge canal in Merritt Island.

On the other side of SR-528, though, are hundreds of homes like Vince Cipponeri’s.

“It’s roughly probably 2,000 feet away from us as the crow flies,” the resident s