Native

Potentially lethal guerrilla resistance tactics have triggered a criminal investigation into a native claims crusade to stop construction of TC Energy Corp.’s Coastal GasLink pipeline across northern British Columbia (BC).

Native Americans generally, and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe specifically, said on Friday they don’t intend to give up their opposition to the $6.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) project, which the Trump administration has fast-tracked into its final completion.

President Obama said Wednesday that a re-routing of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline project now under construction is being considered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to resolve the stalemate among developers, Native American tribal opponents and the federal government (see Shale Daily,Oct. 14).

Halliburton Co. on Thursday disclosed details on the performance of its new hydraulic fracturing (fracking) service, which uses a fluid based on a derivatized natural polymer rather than guar gum.

With a Pacific Northwest native and current FERC commissioner, Philip Moeller, endorsing the need for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, two other regional gas advocates made the case for bringing added gas supplies into the region, while pointing out that current depressed wholesale prices in North America, not the global financial crisis, are the current impediment to new supplies from both pipelines and LNG imports.

The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) last Friday dismissed a challenge to one of the local permits issued for the development of the proposed Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) project and related interstate-connecting pipeline. The appeal dealt with one of three Coos County permits issued to the LNG project — this one being for development of the marine docking facilities.

In a state that historically has liked its electricity supplies coal-based to match one of its most abundant native resources, Utah’s energy picture is increasingly becoming a stew complete with increased natural gas, oil, geothermal, solar and even some visions of a first-in-the-state nuclear generation plant. The state Division of Oil, Gas and Mining earlier this summer confirmed that record natural gas and oil production is showing up in Utah.

In a state that historically has liked its electricity supplies coal-based to match one of its most abundant native resources, Utah’s energy picture is increasingly becoming a stew complete with increased natural gas, oil, geothermal, solar and some visions of even a first-in-the-state nuclear generation plant. The state Divison of Oil, Gas and Mining earlier this summer confirmed that record natural gas and oil production is showing up in Utah.

Quoddy Bay LLC filed an application at FERC Friday to build a 2 Bcf liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on a Native American reservation at Split Rock, ME, and a storage project in Perry, ME.