Environmental Groups Challenge Cameron LNG FERC Order; Cameron LNG Says Too Late
Posted on Jul 24, 2014 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, LNG Exports | Comments Off on Environmental Groups Challenge Cameron LNG FERC Order; Cameron LNG Says Too Late
Sierra Club, Gulf Restoration Network, and RESTORE filed a request for rehearing and stay of FERC’s order granting authority to Cameron LNG to construct an LNG export facility near Hackberry, La., alleging that FERC’s environmental analysis failed to adequately consider the effects of increased gas production and air pollution that could be induced by the project and the project’s...
SCT&E LNG Files for DOE Authorization to Export Additional LNG Volumes
Posted on Jul 24, 2014 in Federal Regulation, LNG Exports | Comments Off on SCT&E LNG Files for DOE Authorization to Export Additional LNG Volumes
SCT&E LNG, LLC, a subsidiary of Southern California Telephone Company, filed an application with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for authorization to export 12 million metric tons per annum (approximately 1.6 Bcf/day) of domestically produced LNG over 30 years from a proposed LNG export facility at Monkey Island in the Calcasieu Ship Channel, Cameron Parish, La. to nations with...
Oregon LNG Pipeline Appeals Land Use Board Ruling
Posted on Jul 23, 2014 in LNG Exports, Pipelines, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Oregon LNG Pipeline Appeals Land Use Board Ruling
The Daily Astorian reports that Oregon Pipeline Company has appealed to the Oregon Court of Appeals the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals’ decisions (1) remanding the Clatsop County Board’s (Board) denial of the company’s application for a land use permit to construct a pipeline to feed the Oregon LNG project, and (2) dismissing an appeal of the Board’s initial ruling which approved the...
Downeast LNG Requests Initiation of FERC Pre-Filing Environmental Review for Proposed LNG Export Project
Posted on Jul 23, 2014 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, LNG Exports | Comments Off on Downeast LNG Requests Initiation of FERC Pre-Filing Environmental Review for Proposed LNG Export Project
Downeast LNG (Downeast) has requested that FERC initiate the pre-filing environmental review process for an LNG export terminal. Downeast states that it proposes to convert its pending FERC application for an LNG import terminal and sendout pipeline into a bidirectional import-export LNG terminal and pipeline due to changed market conditions for LNG imports into the United States. ...
Sabine Pass LNG Files Monthly Construction Status Report
Posted on Jul 23, 2014 in Federal Regulation, LNG Exports | Comments Off on Sabine Pass LNG Files Monthly Construction Status Report
Sabine Pass LNG filed a report with FERC covering construction activities through June 2014 at its LNG export terminal in Cameron Parish, La. Stage 1 (liquefaction trains 1 and 2) engineering is 99.2% complete, procurement is 96.9% complete, and subcontract and direct hire construction work are 44.6% and 31.2% complete, respectively. Stage 1 overall project completion is 68.9%...