FERC staff has issued an overall favorable draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for a pipeline and related equipment to supply feedstock to one of Venture Global LNG Inc.’s planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Louisiana, though there was no conclusion regarding the impact on climate change.

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In the DEIS made public last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said staff had determined that approval of Columbia Gulf Transmission LLC’s East Lateral Xpress project “would not result in significant environmental impacts, with the exception of climate change impacts” resulting from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The project includes an 8.1-mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline in Barataria Bay in Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes, as well as two new...