Impacts

More than 200 environmental and advocacy groups in a letter Monday asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revise last year’s findings that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has not had “widespread, systemic impacts” on drinking water.

The National Park Service (NPS) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday detailed their concerns with FERC’s draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the PennEast Pipeline, with both saying that a significant amount of information is missing from the document that could better help the public understand it.

In a notice of schedule issued Tuesday for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and the Equitrans Expansion Project, FERC said it plans to complete draft environmental impact statements (EIS) for the projects by September with a final EIS expected in early March 2017.

The strategic placement of shale gas infrastructure could reduce environment impacts for a reasonable additional cost, but doing so would require commitments from planners and regulators and would be a departure from current practices, according to researchers.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in comments filed with FERC on Monday that the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for Columbia Pipeline Group Inc.’s Leach and Rayne XPress pipeline projects is insufficient, recommending that additional information be included in the final version.

FERC staff has issued a favorable draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Atlantic Sunrise project of Williams Partners’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco).

FERC staff has issued a favorable draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Atlantic Sunrise project of Williams Partners’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco).

FERC staff released a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Rover Pipeline LLC project that found “adverse and significant” impacts and makes recommendations to mitigate them that it said should be included in any approval of the project.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said this week that FERC should require applicants seeking approval under the Natural Gas Act to provide more information on a project’s indirect impacts, including potential increases in gas production and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.