The states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have lined up as critics of FERC’s draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) on the proposed Weaver’s Cove LNG terminal near Fall River, MA, urging the Commission to consider alternatives (CP04-36).
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Pre-Filing Environmental Work Speeds FERC Pipe Processing, Kelly Says
A National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) pre-filing process applied to natural gas pipeline projects has greatly accelerated the average permitting times to a year or less for what used to average more than two years, FERC Commissioner Suedeen Kelly told an industry audience in Santa Fe, NM, last Friday. The same process of regulatory staff and applicants sharing information before a formal filing was applied last year in the pending application by a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp. to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Long Beach Harbor.
July 20, 2004
EPA: ‘Frac’ing’ Poses ‘Little or No Threat’ to Drinking Water
A new study conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that claims by environmentalist groups that technology used to extract natural gas from coalbed methane (CBM) wells could contaminate groundwater in the West are “completely unfounded.”
July 5, 2004
EPA: ‘Frac’ing’ Poses ‘Little or No Threat’ to Drinking Water
A new study conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that claims by environmentalist groups that technology used to extract natural gas from coalbed methane (CBM) wells could contaminate groundwater in the West are “completely unfounded.”
June 30, 2004
Duke Energy, EPA Move to Dismiss Clean Air Trial Proceedings
Duke Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week filed a joint motion calling on U.S. Middle District Court of North Carolina trial Judge Frank Bullock to rule in favor of Duke Energy in the government’s Clean Air Act “New Source Review” (NSR) enforcement litigation brought against the company.
April 19, 2004
PG&E Advances on $9.6B Settlement Financing; S&P, Moody’s Favorable
Culminating a week of progress in pulling together the financing underpinning of its exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Friday announced it intends to offer $6.7 billion in first mortgage bonds to help pay credit claims in its $12 billion utility bankruptcy, the largest in U. S. history. This followed announcement earlier in the week that the utility secured $2.9 billion in credit facility commitments and authorization from California state regulators for its new financial structure.
March 15, 2004
EPA Favors Consolidating Tractebel Calypso, AES Ocean Pipe Projects
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is questioning the need to build two pipelines to transport regasified gas from proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in the Bahamas to southern Florida. It believes that “some consolidation” of the proposed Tractebel Calypso Pipeline and AES Ocean Express Pipeline projects is warranted.
March 8, 2004
EPA Favors Consolidating Tractebel Calypso, AES Ocean Pipe Projects
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is questioning the need to build two pipelines to transport regasified gas from proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in the Bahamas to southern Florida. It believes that “some consolidation” of the proposed Tractebel Calypso Pipeline and AES Ocean Express Pipeline projects is warranted.
March 8, 2004
NRG Energy Closes $2.7 Billion Financing Package
Christmas came early for NRG Energy in 2003. First, the company emerged from bankruptcy protection earlier this month and last Tuesday NRG closed on a $2.7 billion financing package.
December 29, 2003
Transportation Notes
MRT implemented a System Protection Warning Friday, then lifted it Saturday.
December 22, 2003
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