Sponsors

Within hours of the omnibus energy bill being enacted into law Monday, sponsors of the stalled Islander East Pipeline project took advantage of language in the measure and challenged in federal court the state of Connecticut’s refusal to issue a water quality permit for the Connecticut-to-Long Island natural gas pipeline.

Sponsors of the long-stalled Islander East Pipeline project are awaiting President Bush’s signing of the omnibus energy bill so that they can challenge in federal court the state of Connecticut’s denial of a water permit for the Connecticut-to-Long Island natural gas pipeline.

Major Northeast utilities Consolidated Edison and KeySpan have signed up as anchor shippers on Phase I of the reconfigured Millennium Pipeline, the project’s sponsors said in an amendment filed at FERC Monday.

Although one hurdle has been cleared from the path of the C$7 billion Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline, many remain, project sponsors emphasized last week following an economic development deal signed by the Canadian government and the Deh Cho First Nations. The deal resolved one of the major issues preventing development of the long proposed project.

Although one hurdle has been cleared from the path of the C$7 billion Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline, many remain, project sponsors emphasized. The economic development deal signed by the Canadian government and the Deh Cho First Nations resolved only one of the major issues preventing development of the long proposed project (see Daily GPI, July 12).

FERC on Wednesday refined a final rule issued earlier this year that identified the open season steps potential sponsors must follow when allocating transportation capacity on a long-line system stretching from Alaska’s North Slope to markets in the Lower 48 states.

Work on the C$7 billion ($5.6 billion) Mackenzie Gas Project was suspended on Thursday, with its sponsors calling time out to seek clarification of industry, government and aboriginal roles in Canadian northern development.

With the aboriginal partners simultaneously urging on the corporate sponsors and demanding better deals, the Mackenzie Gas Project is vowing to hit its target date of 2009 for completing the C$5 billion (US$3.7 billion) Canadian arctic production and pipeline project.

With the aboriginal partners simultaneously urging on the corporate sponsors and demanding better deals, the Mackenzie Gas Project is vowing to hit its target date of 2009 for completing the C$5 billion (US$3.7 billion) Canadian arctic production and pipeline project.