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...
Farmers Oppose Oregon LNG Pipeline Proposal
Posted on Sep 21, 2007 in Federal Regulation, Pipelines, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Farmers Oppose Oregon LNG Pipeline Proposal
The Statesman Journal (Salem, Ore.; from Associated Press) reports that approximately 200 local residents attended a FERC hearing on the gas pipeline infrastructure associated with the Oregon LNG terminal proposal, many of them farmers who argued that the pipeline should follow existing roads and utility corridors instead of cutting across farmland as currently proposed. The meeting...
FERC Authorizes Elba Island Expansion; Calhoun Construction
Posted on Sep 21, 2007 in Federal Regulation, Pipelines, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Storage | Comments Off on FERC Authorizes Elba Island Expansion; Calhoun Construction
Yesterday FERC announced that Calhoun LNG has approval to begin construction of its proposed LNG import terminal and associated Point Comfort Pipeline. The Calhoun LNG regasification facility will have an initial sendout capacity of 1 Bcf/d. The order authorizing construction is available in FERC eLibrary under Docket No. CP05-91. FERC concurrently announced authorization of the Elba...
Maine Environmental Panel Denies Downeast LNG’s Bid to Withdraw and Resubmit Application
Posted on Sep 21, 2007 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Maine Environmental Panel Denies Downeast LNG’s Bid to Withdraw and Resubmit Application
Maine’s Board of Environmental Protection voted 5-3 to deny Downeast LNG’s request to withdraw and resubmit its application to build an LNG regasification terminal on Passamaquoddy Bay. Downeast LNG had planned to include supplemental information upon resubmission, although Downeast LNG president Dean Girdis maintains that the company believes “that our applications...
Proposed Ocean Way LNG Lightering Site Falls Within U.S. Navy Training and Testing Range
Posted on Sep 21, 2007 in Marine Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Safety & Security | Comments Off on Proposed Ocean Way LNG Lightering Site Falls Within U.S. Navy Training and Testing Range
The U.S. Navy is urging Ocean Way LNG to reconsider one of its proposed LNG lightering sites as the site falls within the Navy’s Point Mugu Sea Range off the coast of Southern California. A piece available in the Environmental Newsstand offers analysis of this and other issues involving the growing LNG industry and operations areas of the U.S. Navy. [Subscription...
Broadwater Debate Focuses on Facts, Security Concerns
Posted on Sep 20, 2007 in Regas Terminals & Capacity, Safety & Security | Comments Off on Broadwater Debate Focuses on Facts, Security Concerns
Suffolk Life (Long Island, N.Y.) reports that the recent debate between a Broadwater representative and an LNG opponent over the Broadwater LNG regasification terminal proposed for Long Island Sound focused on the economics of the project, as well as local residents’ security concerns. The host of the forum, the Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce, plans to poll its...