U.S. Coast Guard Notes Concerns with Ballast Screens Proposal for Ships Servicing Bradwood Landing LNG
Posted on May 19, 2009 in Environmental, Marine Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Technology, Vessel Transportation | Comments Off on U.S. Coast Guard Notes Concerns with Ballast Screens Proposal for Ships Servicing Bradwood Landing LNG
Earlier this month the U.S. Coast Guard notified FERC of its concerns with the proposal to retrofit LNG vessels servicing the Bradwood Landing LNG terminal with screens to limit entrainment of juvenile fish in vessels’ ballast systems. The Coast Guard’s letter, available in the FERC eLibrary under Docket No. CP06-365, states that fish screening technologies that have not...
Weaver’s Cove Energy Responds to Letter from Mass. Congressional Representatives
Posted on May 14, 2009 in Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Weaver’s Cove Energy Responds to Letter from Mass. Congressional Representatives
Yesterday Weaver’s Cove Energy, LLC filed a letter with FERC responding to the issues raised in an April 28, 2009, letter sent to the Commission by three members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation. Both letters are available in the FERC eLibrary under Docket No....
Group Forms to Oppose LNG Projects Along the Columbia River
Posted on May 13, 2009 in Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Group Forms to Oppose LNG Projects Along the Columbia River
The Daily Astorian reports that a group called Columbia Pacific Common Sense has formed in recent months to oppose the Oregon LNG and Bradwood Landing LNG projects planned for sites along the Columbia...
Cheniere Urges FERC to Authorize Re-Export Proposal
Posted on May 12, 2009 in Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Cheniere Urges FERC to Authorize Re-Export Proposal
Patricia Outtrim, vice president of government affairs for Cheniere Energy, Inc., filed a letter with FERC last week urging the Commission to authorize Cheniere’s proposal to re-export LNG from its Sabine Pass LNG terminal. The letter states that “Sabine Pass LNG has had several significant commercial LNG opportunities that it has had to forego due to the delay in...
Repsol Executive: North American Gas Prices to have Limited Impact on Cargo Deliveries to Canaport LNG Terminal
Posted on May 12, 2009 in Canada & Mexico, Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Repsol Executive: North American Gas Prices to have Limited Impact on Cargo Deliveries to Canaport LNG Terminal
Platts Gas Daily [subscription required] reports that Denis Marcoux, vice president of Repsol Canada, told attendees at the Camput 2009 conference that North American natural gas prices will have only a limited impact on LNG cargo delivers to the Canaport regasification terminal. Separately, CBC reports that Canaport LNG has almost completed its jetty, leaving cleanup and painting left...
Spokesperson for Maine’s Governor Says State Can Have Both Energy Corridor and LNG Projects
Posted on May 12, 2009 in Canada & Mexico, Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Spokesperson for Maine’s Governor Says State Can Have Both Energy Corridor and LNG Projects
A spokesperson for Maine Governor John Baldacci (R) told the Bangor Daily News that the energy corridor proposed between Maine and New Brunswick and the planned LNG projects in Maine are not mutually exclusive. The spokesperson said, “it would be [a] dangerous thing to hold up projects [like the energy corridor] at the expense of others [like...