FERC should pay close attention to the potential impacts of increased natural gas production in its decision-making process for the Cove Point Liquefaction project, and it should also focus on potential environmental justice impacts from the Calvert County, MD, facility, according to the U.S. Environmental Agency (EPA).
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Murkowski Urges FERC to Approve Cove Point LNG Exports
Three weeks after FERC staff determined that Dominion’s proposal to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a facility in Maryland posed no major threat to the environment, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged regulators to grant the company an export license.
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Jordan Cove Is DOE’s Seventh Non-FTA LNG Export OK
Jordan Cove Energy Project LP Monday was granted conditional authorization to export liquefied domestic natural gas to countries…
Canada OKs Gas Exports to Supply Jordan Cove LNG Terminal
Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has green-lighted export of Canadian gas to the United States for liquefaction and further export to global markets via the planned Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal on Coos Bay in Oregon.
Sponsors Not Worried by Local Opposition to Oregon LNG Plans
Skeptics think Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Asia face some significant hurdles, and two similar projects in Oregon don’t have a completely uncluttered path to Far East markets either, even if they both manage to get FERC and other federal government approvals.
Pipelines Key to Two Oregon LNG Projects, Backers Say
A lot of under-used natural gas pipeline capacity from supply sources on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border is a key competitive advantage for two proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects in Oregon, according to backers of the Jordan Cove and Oregon LNG projects.
Cove Point Opponents Demand EIS, Governor’s Support
Environmentalists and other activists are marshaling their troops to continue their battle against the recently authorized global exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Cove Point LNG Terminal on the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County, MD.
DOE’s LNG Action Could Mean Marcellus ‘Relief Valve’
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week gave Marcellus Shale gas producers hope for a waterborne route to market for the product that they have so much of.
Dominion Farming Out Marcellus Acreage, Creating NatGas Partnership
With its “confidence level” higher than ever, Dominion Resources Inc. is rounding up its Appalachian-driven natural gas assets and forming a partnership that could generate up to $2 billion a year in earnings, CEO Tom Farrell said Thursday. As part of the overall restructuring, about 100,000 acres of the Marcellus Shale holdings in West Virginia will be farmed out.
Dominion Cove Point Approved for Global LNG Exports
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on Wednesday conditionally authorized Dominion Cove Point LNG LP to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Cove Point LNG Terminal in Calvert County, MD, to countries that do not have a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States.