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FERC Formally Notifies State, Defense of Maritimes & Northeast’s Request to Export

Yesterday FERC formally notified Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, LLC has requested a change to its existing Presidential Permit that authorizes it to import natural gas from Canada. Maritimes & Northeast, which will transport gas imported via the Canaport LNG terminal in St. John, New Brunswick to the...

EIA: “Significant Uncertainty” in Global LNG Market

In its Short-Term Energy Outlook released yesterday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicted that the United States would import approximately 500 Bcf of LNG in 2009 and approximately 650 Bcf in 2010. However, EIA also noted that “there is significant uncertainty associated with the global LNG balance.” Platts LNG Daily [subscription required] provides...

Weaver’s Cove LNG Addresses FERC’s Project Engineering Questions

Weaver’s Cove Energy’s responses to FERC’s project engineering inquiries are available in the Commission’s eLibrary under Docket No. CP04-36.

U.S. Ambassador to Qatar Visits Golden Pass LNG Site

The Peninsula (Doha, Qatar) reports that Joseph LeBaron, U.S. ambassador to Qatar, visited the site of the Golden Pass LNG import project.

Spokesperson for Maine’s Governor Says State Can Have Both Energy Corridor and LNG Projects

A spokesperson for Maine Governor John Baldacci (R) told the Bangor Daily News that the energy corridor proposed between Maine and New Brunswick and the planned LNG projects in Maine are not mutually exclusive. The spokesperson  said, “it would be [a] dangerous thing to hold up projects [like the energy corridor] at the expense of others [like...

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