FERC Officials Tour Potential Downeast and Quoddy Bay Terminal Sites
Posted on Apr 25, 2007 in Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on FERC Officials Tour Potential Downeast and Quoddy Bay Terminal Sites
FERC officials joined personnel from Downeast LNG and Quoddy Bay LNG to tour the respective sites of the companies’ proposed LNG terminals. Some Passamaquoddy Tribe protestors met the officials when they arrived at Pleasant Point, the site of Quoddy Bay’s planned terminal. The Bangor Daily News provides further...
Rising Global LNG Prices May Affect U.S. Terminal Capacity
Posted on Apr 25, 2007 in Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Rising Global LNG Prices May Affect U.S. Terminal Capacity
LNG 15 News reports on the potential impact of rising global LNG prices on the expansion of U.S. LNG terminal capacity. According to the publication, Bill Cooper, executive director for the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, predicts that out of the 40 or so proposed U.S. terminals, only a few of the “fittest” will survive the permitting...
Congressional Hearing Focuses on Sparrows Point Safety and Security
Posted on Apr 24, 2007 in Federal Regulation, Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Safety & Security, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Congressional Hearing Focuses on Sparrows Point Safety and Security
The Baltimore Sun reports that several elected officials expressed skepticism about the safety and security plans for the Sparrows Point terminal in Maryland at a U.S. House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation hearing yesterday. Members of Congress present at the hearing vowed to continue to fight the project. An official from AES, the project developer, defended...
Congressional Hearing in May to Focus on Broadwater Safety and Security
Posted on Apr 23, 2007 in Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Safety & Security | Comments Off on Congressional Hearing in May to Focus on Broadwater Safety and Security
A congressional hearing has been scheduled for May 7, 2007, in Farmingville, New York, to address security issues surrounding Broadwater LNG’s proposed terminal in Long Island Sound. The field hearing, called by the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, will deal with how the Coast Guard ...
Congressional Hearing on LNG Security Convened Today in Baltimore
Posted on Apr 23, 2007 in Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Safety & Security | Comments Off on Congressional Hearing on LNG Security Convened Today in Baltimore
The U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation will hold a hearing today on security issues surround ing LNG terminals, and in particular the Sparrows Point terminal proposal. The hearing, to be held in Baltimore, will feature testimony from Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD) and Gov. Martin...
Conn. Attorney General Files Formal Objection to Broadwater Proposal
Posted on Apr 23, 2007 in Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Safety & Security, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Conn. Attorney General Files Formal Objection to Broadwater Proposal
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has filed a formal objection with New York’s Office of General Services to the planned Broadwater LNG terminal in Long Island Sound. Citing a “common stake in this shared threat,” he claims the “project as proposed poses a direct and substantial threat to human health and safety and critical ecosystem resources of...