Environmental Assessment to Be Prepared for Construction Activities Proposed by Trunkline LNG
Posted on Mar 5, 2008 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Environmental Assessment to Be Prepared for Construction Activities Proposed by Trunkline LNG
FERC announced today in the Federal Register that its staff will prepare an environmental assessment to address Trunkline LNG Company LLC’s proposed Pipeline Compressor Addition Project. Specifically, Trunkline plans to install a 1,500 horsepower pipeline compressor, as well as associated pipeline and electrical infrastructure on land owned by the company. Comments on this...
Local Official Concerned About Approval Delays for Maple LNG
Posted on Mar 4, 2008 in Canada & Mexico, Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Local Official Concerned About Approval Delays for Maple LNG
Speaking to Canadian radio station 101.5 FM, Guysborough Warden Lloyd Hines expressed concern that environmental permits required for the Maple LNG terminal proposed for Nova Scotia, Canada, will delay final approval of the project. Hines specifically named the Roseate Tern, an endangered species of bird with habitat near the terminal’s proposed site, as reason for the...
NorthernStar VP Responds to Report Critical of LNG Projects
Posted on Mar 4, 2008 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on NorthernStar VP Responds to Report Critical of LNG Projects
In an op-ed carried by the Ventura County Star, Joe Desmond, a senior vice president of NorthernStar Natural Gas, says that a recent report released by Ratepayers for Affordable Clean Energy (RACE) criticizing LNG merely highlights the need to uniformly account for carbon emissions. Desmond goes on to argue that RACE’s report does not fully account for the “economic...
Secretary of Commerce Stays Closure of Record in CZMA Consistency Appeal by Weaver’s Cove LNG
Posted on Mar 3, 2008 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Secretary of Commerce Stays Closure of Record in CZMA Consistency Appeal by Weaver’s Cove LNG
U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Carlos Gutierrez, has determined that it is necessary to receive additional information before deciding on Weaver’s Cove LNG’s consistency appeal under the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) and, as a result, has stayed closure of the decision record until May 5, 2008. Read today’s Federal Register for additional...
Connecticut Scientists Critical of Broadwater FEIS
Posted on Feb 27, 2008 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Connecticut Scientists Critical of Broadwater FEIS
Marine scientists from the University of New Haven and the University of Connecticut told a state task force that the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) issued by FERC on the Broadwater LNG proposal contains “information holes and missteps” and that the agency “misinterpreted [its] own data.” Peter Auster, an associate professor at the University of...
Report Issued by Environmental Group Critical of West Coast LNG Projects
Posted on Feb 27, 2008 in Environmental, Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Report Issued by Environmental Group Critical of West Coast LNG Projects
The Ventura County Star reports that several environmental groups released a report entitled “Collision Course: How Imported Liquefied Natural Gas Will Undermine Clean Energy in California” which argues against LNG projects proposed for the U.S. West Coast. The report cites economic, environmental, and domestic supply issues as reasons for not investing in LNG...