Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline received approval from theMaine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) to construct Phase IIof its project. Phase II includes about 200 miles of 24-inch and30-inch diameter mainline pipeline traversing southern, central andeastern Maine from Westbrook to Baileyville, ME, as well as about120 miles of proposed laterals and spurs to serve Maine industrialsand electric generators.

BEP approval of Maritimes’ application grants permission toconstruct under Maine’s Site Location of Development and NaturalResource Protection Acts, as well as under Section 401 of thefederal Clean Water Act. In the order approving construction, theBEP concluded Maritimes could be built with certain conditions toensure limited adverse environmental impacts.

“This order will allow us to begin selected constructionactivities this fall and remain on schedule to meet our in-servicedate of November 1999,” said George Mazanec, chairman of themanagement committee of Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline. Whenfully operational, Maritimes and its Canadian affiliate willtransport more than 530,000 MMBtu/d from the Sable Offshore EnergyProject offshore Nova Scotia to markets in Atlantic Canada and theNortheastern United States. Phase II of the project recentlyreceived a certificate of public convenience and necessity fromFERC.

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