Energy, Environmental Interests Present Challenges for Mass. Ocean Resource Planners
Posted on Aug 11, 2009 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Energy, Environmental Interests Present Challenges for Mass. Ocean Resource Planners
National Public Radio provides coverage of the effects of Massachusetts’s ocean resource zoning efforts, including effects on the existing LNG deepwater ports located offshore...
MARAD Receives Amended Application for TORP’s Bienville LNG Deepwater Port Project
Posted on Aug 5, 2009 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on MARAD Receives Amended Application for TORP’s Bienville LNG Deepwater Port Project
In today’s Federal Register MARAD acknowledges that it has received from TORP Terminal LP an amended application for the planned Bienville LNG deepwater port. The amended application describes the project’s new “closed-loop” regasification system. The U.S. Coast Guard and MARAD will prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement as part of the review of...
NMFS Responds to FERC’s Request for Consultation in Bradwood Landing LNG Proceeding
Posted on Aug 5, 2009 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on NMFS Responds to FERC’s Request for Consultation in Bradwood Landing LNG Proceeding
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has responded to FERC’s request for formal consultation in the Bradwood Landing LNG project regulatory proceeding, stating “Due to the scope and scale of the project and the amount of information provided for review, 30 days is insufficient time to allow the [NMFS] to make a definitive determination” regarding the findings...
Weaver’s Cove Updates FERC on Environmental Impact Mitigation Discussions
Posted on Aug 4, 2009 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Weaver’s Cove Updates FERC on Environmental Impact Mitigation Discussions
Weaver’s Cove Energy, LLC submitted a letter to FERC yesterday updating the Commission on discussions with various federal and state agencies regarding the project’s environmental impact mitigation plan. Specifically, the filing notes that a number of agencies involved in these discussions “took umbrage” with the updated mitigation plan submitted to FERC last...
Massachusetts Says Weaver’s Cove LNG’s Coastal Zone Consistency Submission Incomplete
Posted on Aug 3, 2009 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Massachusetts Says Weaver’s Cove LNG’s Coastal Zone Consistency Submission Incomplete
Last week Massachusetts’ Office of Coastal Zone Management released a letter stating that Weaver’s Cove Energy, LLC had not submitted the proper permits and other information that would allow for the review of the company’s planned offshore LNG facility and associated pipeline infrastructure for consistency with Massachusetts’ federally approved Coastal Zone...
MARAD/USCG Announce Availability of FEIS for Port Dolphin LNG Proposed Offshore Florida
Posted on Jul 14, 2009 in Environmental, Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on MARAD/USCG Announce Availability of FEIS for Port Dolphin LNG Proposed Offshore Florida
On July 13, 2009, MARAD and the U.S Coast Guard published notice in the Federal Register of the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Port Dolphin LNG Deepwater Port license application. The project proposes a deepwater port in the St. Petersburg block of the Outer Continental Shelf. The port would consist of a permanently moored unloading buoy...