Policy

FERC has initiated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) pre-filing process for two key pipeline projects — Northern Natural Gas Co.’s Northern Lights Expansion project in the Midwest and Overthrust Pipeline’s proposed expansion of its system in Wyoming.

The energy policy act signed into law by President Bush in August “was a start,” but the nation needs energy legislation that goes far beyond that to address the run-up in prices and diminishing supplies, said the head of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Tuesday.

New backstop transmission siting authority given to FERC in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) will not be a “silver bullet” and, if improperly applied, that authority could become “one of the biggest roadblocks that we have to construction” of power lines, Jose Delgado, CEO of American Transmission Co. (ATC), said last Wednesday.

With the adoption of the 2005 update of California’s Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) slated for next month, the presiding member of the five-member California Energy Commission (CEC), charged with publishing the guidebook for the governor and legislature earlier this month, expressed his frustration with the state’s effort to reshape a coherent, effective energy strategy.

In the wake of the 2005 federal Energy Policy Act becoming law Monday, the Oregon Department of Energy suspended its rulemaking process that would have assessed the potential economic impact of proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminals in the state.

Breaking a four-year logjam, the House on Thursday approved by a wide margin sweeping energy legislation that overhauls the U.S. energy policy for the first time in more than a decade.

San Antonio-based Tidelands Oil & Gas Corp. initiated the pre-filing process at FERC under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the United States portion of its proposed Burgos Hub Export/Import Project, which is expected to lead to development of Mexico’s first natural gas market hub, gas storage field and offshore Gulf of Mexico liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal.

San Antonio-based Tidelands Oil & Gas Corp. initiated the pre-filing process at FERC under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the United States portion of its proposed Burgos Hub Export/Import Project, which is expected to lead to development of Mexico’s first natural gas market hub, gas storage field and offshore Gulf of Mexico liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal.

FERC last Wednesday adopted a policy statement allowing regulated energy companies, such as interstate natural gas pipelines and public utilities, that are partnerships to reflect actual or potential income tax liability in their cost-of-service rates.