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FERC last week scheduled the Freeport LNG natural gas liquefaction and export project for environmental review with a final environmental impact statement (EIS) to be made available Dec. 27, which means it could be nearly a year before there is a final Commission decision on facilities construction.

Calgary-based Veresen Inc. last week said affiliate Jordan Cove Energy Project LP has filed an application with FERC to construct and operate a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the West Coast within the international Port of Coos Bay, OR.

Nearly 100 shale gas-driven chemical industry projects in the United States, worth about $71.7 billion, will generate $20 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue by 2020, according to an analysis by the American Chemistry Council (ACC).

The downward price pressure on U.S. natural gas “should be sustained for many years,” said the global energy research chief for Credit Suisse.

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Thursday that they expect 13-20 named storms to form during “an active or extremely active” Atlantic hurricane season this year, including seven to eleven hurricanes, three to six of them major (Category 3 or higher).

FERC has scheduled the Freeport LNG natural gas liquefaction and export project for environmental review with a final environmental impact statement (EIS) to be made available Dec. 27, which means it could be nearly a year before there is a final FERC decision on facilities construction.

The coming summer will be warmer than normal across most of the United States, but still “a reprieve from the big heat of the last three summers,” according to forecasters at Weather Services International (WSI).

America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) is launching a nationwide advertising campaign designed to get people thinking and talking about their energy choices, and to see natural gas as a “foundational fuel.” The ad campaign will be “very visible,” with television and online components, as well as personal outreach through ANGA customer groups, said spokesman Dan Whitten. It would be the first major public outreach since Martin J. Durbin was named president and CEO (see NGI, April 1). Durbin had been executive vice president of government affairs at the American Petroleum Institute, where he led advocacy efforts on behalf of the oil and gas industry. Former president and CEO Regina Hopper resigned in February under pressure from the board (see NGI, Feb. 11).

The Addison Natural Gas Project (ANGP), a Vermont Gas proposal to add a 41-mile extension to its natural gas system in western Vermont, “will benefit the region” and Middlebury College “in numerous ways for years to come,” Middlebury President Ron Liebowitz said recently, despite requests from one prominent faculty member that the college publicly oppose the pipeline.