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Article Discusses Canadian East Coast LNG Export Projects

An article in the Globe and Mail reports that four LNG export projects are planned for the Canadian east coast Maritimes provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia but notes that questions remain on where some of the projects will get their gas supplies to convert to LNG for export.      ...

Canadian Energy Board Grants Pieridae Energy Import and Export Licenses

The Canadian National Energy Board has granted Pieridae Energy (Canada) Ltd. (Pieridae) 20-year licenses to import up to 419.75 Bcf/year of natural gas from the United States to Canada via the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline and to export up to 587.65 Bcf/year of LNG from Pieridae’s proposed terminal near Goldboro, Nova Scotia.   The licenses are subject to the approval of the...

FERC Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement for Lake Charles Liquefaction Project

Today, FERC released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for Trunkline Gas and affiliates’ proposed Lake Charles Liquefaction and LNG export terminal project in Calcasieu Parish, La.  The liquefaction facilities would have a design production capacity of 16.45 million metric tons of LNG per year, which would provide an LNG export capacity equivalent to about 2 Bcf/day.  The...

Canadian Energy Board Grants Bear Head LNG Import and Export License

The Canadian National Energy Board has granted Bear Head LNG, a subsidiary of Liquefied Natural Gas Limited, 25-year licenses to import up to 503 Bcf/year of natural gas from the United States to Canada via the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline and to export up to 685.9 Bcf/year of LNG from Bear Head LNG’s proposed terminal in Richmond County near Point Tupper, Nova Scotia.  The...

Environmental Groups Petition Commerce Department to Ban Natural Gas Exports

The Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace (Petitioners) have filed a petition requesting that the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) “immediately promulgate a rule or rules prohibiting the export of all natural gas products . . . from the United States pursuant to Section 103 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA), as amended.”  The...

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