Federal Court Rejects Sierra Club Appeal of FERC Corpus Christi LNG Orders
Posted on Nov 4, 2016 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Liquefaction, LNG Exports | Comments Off on 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
Posted on Nov 3, 2016 in Federal Regulation, Liquefaction, LNG Exports | Comments Off on 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
Posted on Nov 2, 2016 in Federal Regulation, Liquefaction, LNG Exports | Comments Off on 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...
First Nations and Environmental Group Challenge Pacific NorthWest LNG Decision in Court
Posted on Oct 28, 2016 in Canada & Mexico, Environmental, Federal Regulation, Liquefaction, LNG Exports | Comments Off on First Nations and Environmental Group Challenge Pacific NorthWest LNG Decision in Court
The Canadian Press reports that Canadian First Nations groups, the Gitwilgyoots Tribe and Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs, and the SkeenaWild Conservation Trust have filed separate applications for judicial review in Federal Court of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s (CEAA) decision approving Pacific NorthWest LNG’s (PNWLNG) proposed liquefaction and export terminal near...
FERC Requests Proposed Brownsville Area LNG Projects to Assess Failed Rocket Launch Impacts
Posted on Oct 27, 2016 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Liquefaction, LNG Exports | Comments Off on FERC Requests Proposed Brownsville Area LNG Projects to Assess Failed Rocket Launch Impacts
FERC has sent letters to Annova LNG, Rio Grande LNG, LLC, and Texas LNG Brownsville, LLC, stating that their proposals to construct LNG export terminal facilities near Brownsville, Texas “involve[] possible siting concerns posed from potential failed rocket launches from the nearby Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s launch site at Boca Chica Village.” FERC requested the...