FERC Announces Series of Public Meetings on the Oregon LNG Proposal
Posted on May 5, 2008 in Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on FERC Announces Series of Public Meetings on the Oregon LNG Proposal
FERC announced in today’s Federal Register that it will host three public meetings on the proposed Oregon LNG import terminal. All three meetings will be held in Oregon and are scheduled for May 20, 21, and...
Local Officials Seek Clarification of Mass. Governor’s Authority Over Weaver’s Cove Proposal
Posted on May 2, 2008 in Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Local Officials Seek Clarification of Mass. Governor’s Authority Over Weaver’s Cove Proposal
The Board of Selectmen from Fall River, Mass., whose members are opposed to the offshore offloading plan put forward by Weaver’s Cove Energy, has sent a letter to Mass. Governor Deval Patrick (D) seeking clarification of the governor’s veto authority over the project. The Providence Journal offers additional...
Speaker: U.S. Gas Industry Will Likely Adjust LNG Import Contracts to Adapt to More Flexible Global Market
Posted on May 2, 2008 in Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Speaker: U.S. Gas Industry Will Likely Adjust LNG Import Contracts to Adapt to More Flexible Global Market
Platts LNG Daily reports that a speaker at the Energy Bar Association (EBA) Annual Meeting told the group that he expects natural gas companies to adjust their current LNG import contracts in order to adapt to a more flexible global gas market. In particular, contracts that were originally tied to a single LNG terminal are now being re-examined so that importers can access multiple...
Boston Globe: Halting LNG Bill Benefited Friend of Mass. House Speaker
Posted on May 1, 2008 in Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Boston Globe: Halting LNG Bill Benefited Friend of Mass. House Speaker
The Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts House of Representatives Speaker Salvatore DiMasi’s (D-Suffolk) action to halt a bill designed to block the Weaver’s Cove LNG terminal in 2006 may have benefited a friend, Jay Cashman. The Globe reports that a few months after the bill died in the House, Cashman sold the land to the backers of the Weaver’s Cove LNG project ...
Daily Letters to the Editor
Posted on May 1, 2008 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Safety & Security | Comments Off on Daily Letters to the Editor
Asbury Park Press (New Jersey) (in favor of LNG terminals in the Mid-Atlantic U.S.)
Environmental Group Reacts to DEIS for Proposed Port Dolphin LNG Deepwater Port
Posted on May 1, 2008 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Environmental Group Reacts to DEIS for Proposed Port Dolphin LNG Deepwater Port
Glenn Compton, director of Florida environmental group ManaSota-88, told the Bradenton Herald that he believes that the proposed Port Dolphin LNG deepwater port project may inflict “a lot more environmental damage” than described in the project’s recently-issued draft Environmental Impact...