LNG Importers Challenge Algonquin Pipeline Nitrogen Limit
Posted on Sep 26, 2007 in Gas Composition, Litigation, Pipelines, Technology | Comments Off on LNG Importers Challenge Algonquin Pipeline Nitrogen Limit
On Sept. 24, parties in the Algonquin Pipeline gas composition proceeding at FERC filed comments on Algonquin’s proposed changes to its gas composition specifications. Statoil Natural Gas, an importer at the Cove Point LNG terminal in Maryland, challenged the proposed nitrogen limit, asserting in a technical affidavit that such a limit would reduce the amount of global LNG...
Canadian Appeals Court Upholds Brunswick Pipeline Decision
Posted on Sep 21, 2007 in Canada & Mexico, Environmental, Litigation, Pipelines, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Canadian Appeals Court Upholds Brunswick Pipeline Decision
Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a request by a local environmental group to overturn regulatory approval granted to Emera to build a gas pipeline from Canaport LNG to the Canada-U.S. border. The pipeline route will pass through Rockwood Park, in Saint John, New Brunswick, which prompted the appeal. The Associated Press (carried via Energy Central...
Federal Appeals Court Reverses Ruling in Passamaquoddy Tribe Case
Posted on Sep 17, 2007 in Litigation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Federal Appeals Court Reverses Ruling in Passamaquoddy Tribe Case
A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Nulankeyutmonen Nkihtaqmikon (“We Protect Our Homeland”), a group of the Passamaquoddy tribe that opposed their tribe’s leasing land to Quoddy Bay LLC for development into a LNG import terminal, has legal standing to sue the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs for approving the lease. Additionally, the...
New Jersey Retains Supreme Court Specialist to Argue Crown Landing Case
Posted on Aug 16, 2007 in Litigation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on New Jersey Retains Supreme Court Specialist to Argue Crown Landing Case
The State of New Jersey has hired outside counsel to argue its case in the border dispute controversy with the State of Delaware involving the construction of the Crown Landing LNG regasification terminal. New Jersey is challenging the ruling of a Court-appointed special master that found that Delaware has jurisdiction over projects on the Delaware River that extend across the state...
LNG Terminal Caught in Land Dispute Between Louisiana Ports
Posted on Jul 27, 2007 in Litigation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on LNG Terminal Caught in Land Dispute Between Louisiana Ports
The Associated Press (carried via the Winchester Telegram (La.)) reports that Port of Lake Charles and Port of West Cameron are preparing to go to court over a land ownership controversy involving Sempra Energy’s Cameron LNG terminal. The terminal sits on land in Cameron Parish, La., owned by Port of Lake Charles, which rents the land to Sempra. Port of West Cameron is seeking to...
Environmental Group Files Suit Over Natural Gas Pipeline Route
Posted on Jul 26, 2007 in Canada & Mexico, Environmental, Litigation | Comments Off on Environmental Group Files Suit Over Natural Gas Pipeline Route
Sierra Legal filed suit in the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal on behalf of the Friends of Rockwood Park against the Canadian National Energy Board (NEB) alleging that the regulatory body failed to consider alternative routes for Emera Pipeline Company’s gas line that would connect the Canaport LNG terminal to the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline. The Friends of Rockwood Park...