Editorial: Financial Incentives Strengthen Compass Port Proposal
Posted on Feb 21, 2006 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Editorial: Financial Incentives Strengthen Compass Port Proposal
The Mobile Register has expressed support for ConocoPhillips’ proposed Compass Port LNG terminal offshore Alabama, citing financial and employment incentives offered by the developer. Encouraged by the company’s promise to shut down the terminal if the open-loop system harms certain marine populations, The Register concludes that “the company seems to be trying...
RICRMC Responds to Weaver’s Cove Petition
Posted on Feb 21, 2006 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on RICRMC Responds to Weaver’s Cove Petition
On February 17 the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council filed a legal memorandum with NOAA. The memorandum responds to a December 16 filing by Weaver’s Cove, which asked NOAA to interpret its regulations and decide whether RICRMC waived its right to federal consistency review under the CZMA. RICRMC’s memo argues that (1) a new consistency certification is...
Conflicting Perspectives on Georgia Legislation
Posted on Feb 20, 2006 in Environmental, Markets and Competition, Pipelines, Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Conflicting Perspectives on Georgia Legislation
An editorial in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution criticizes HB 1325, saying the bill would force customers who are already facing expensive gas bills this season to bear the costs of a $300 million pipeline project. In a separate op-ed, Georgia State Rep. Jeff Lewis, chairman of the House Public Utilities and Telecommunications Committee and a proponent of the bill, says the...
Environmental Group Says LNG Plan Harms Marine Life
Posted on Feb 20, 2006 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Environmental Group Says LNG Plan Harms Marine Life
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay is disseminating pictures of marine life near Outer Brewster Island in hopes of encouraging opposition to AES’ Battery Rock LNG terminal proposal. “It’s not a tiny, bleak little island out in the middle of nowhere, but instead a really diverse sanctuary,” said Bruce Berman, a member of the organization. Read more in yesterday’s...
Op-ed: LNG Development Is Detrimental to the Columbia River
Posted on Feb 20, 2006 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Op-ed: LNG Development Is Detrimental to the Columbia River
A Brownsmead, Ore. resident says LNG development along the Columbia River would create a “road of degradation of quality of life” and threaten waterfront development and marine organisms such as salmon. His op-ed is in Friday’s Daily...
ConocoPhillips Promises “Zero Impact” from Open Loop at Compass Port
Posted on Feb 17, 2006 in Environmental, Marine Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on ConocoPhillips Promises “Zero Impact” from Open Loop at Compass Port
The Mobile Register today reports that ConocoPhillips has offered to “provide written and legally binding environmental guarantees that their ‘open loop’ seawater reheating system would have ‘zero impact on species of concern.'” According to the report, officials also offered to offset any impacts on fisheries and contribute $2 million per year to...