Latest US LNG proposal in Louisiana mobilizes environment activists citing climate change and hurricanes
The US LNG export project developer Venture Global is facing environmental challenges with multiple filings from environmental activists to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the proposed project at Calcasieu Pass in Cameron Parish in Louisiana, known as the CP2 LNG project.
US regulators reject rehearings for two LNG export projects on Brownsville Ship Channel
US regulators have denied requests for the rehearing of its orders authorizing construction and operation of two of three proposed liquefied natural gas export plants on the shore of the Brownsville Ship Channel in Cameron County in Texas.
US Court rejects environmentalist moves to block shale-gas pipelines to Southern markets
The US Court of Appeals has judged in favor of regulators and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, designed to deliver Marcellus and Utica shale gas into Southeast markets and LNG export facilities, in ruling against environmental groups seeking to suspend construction.
Haisla First Nation of native North Americans puts forward case for LNG in British Columbia
The Canadian Haisla First Nation of native North Americans in the province of British Columbia is rejecting the flawed environmental policies of activist groups such as the Sierra Club and backing the liquefied natural gas export project called LNG Canada, proposed by Royal Dutch Shell and its joint venture partners to ship clean fuel to Asia.
US trade association for LNG producers says nation awash with natural gas for all markets
The US Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, the trade association for LNG producers, shippers and terminal operators and developers, said the nation was now currently awash with natural gas and would have no problem meeting domestic needs as well as rising LNG exports.
US LNG project backed
Nov 24 (LNGJ) - The Australian company, LNG Ltd, said the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had denied a request from the Sierra Club environmental activist group to revoke approved permits for its Magnolia LNG export plant being developed in Louisiana. “FERC entirely rejected the Sierra Club’s arguments, basing its rejection largely on recent decisions from US federal appeals courts that have found FERC’s approach is proper and consistent with US Supreme Court precedent. Company Chief Executive Gregory Vesey said of the ruling: “We are pleased with the FERC’s decision on this matter and look forward to the US Department of Energy processing Magnolia LNG’s pending application to export LNG to non-Free Trade Agreement countries.”
Washington Court rejects environmental appeal to halt Corpus Christi LNG project in Texas
A US Court of Appeals in Washington DC has denied a petition by the environmental activist group, the Sierra Club, seeking a reversal of the federal approval order granted to the Corpus Christi liquefied natural gas export plant in Texas already under construction.
US Cove Point LNG remains on track as Sierra Club exaggerations rejected by DoE
One of only two US liquefied natural gas export projects on the East Coast, the Dominion Cove Point venture on Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, has won a memorable victory over one of America’s extreme environmental organisations and is proceeding on schedule to go on stream in 2017.
