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Federal Court Rejects Sierra Club Appeal of FERC Corpus Christi LNG Orders

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a Judgment denying Sierra Club’s appeal of FERC’s orders approving the Corpus Christi Liquefaction LNG export project in Corpus Christi, Texas.  Citing its opinion regarding the Freeport LNG terminal, the Court stated that regarding the indirect effects of natural gas exports on the environment, FERC’s National Environmental...

Jordan Cove Energy Project Requests Expedited Rehearing of LNG Project Denial

Jordan Cove Energy Project and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline (together, JCEP) have requested that FERC expeditiously rule on their request for rehearing of FERC’s order, which order denied JCEP’s applications to construct a liquefaction and LNG export terminal at Coos Bay, Ore. and an interconnected pipeline. FERC’s order rejected JCEP’s applications for lack of market support. In the...

BP Energy Requests Expedited FERC Action on Dominion Cove Point LNG Remand

BP Energy has filed a motion requesting that FERC expeditiously act on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s remand of BP Energy Co. v. FERC regarding capacity turn back on Dominion Cove Point LNG (DCP).  According to BP Energy, the Court remanded the case to FERC for further explanation of why the 2012 agreement which permitted Statoil Natural Gas, LLC, to turn back certain...

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