Editorial: Lawmakers Are Dragging Their Feet on Outer Brewster Island Bill
Posted on May 22, 2006 in Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Editorial: Lawmakers Are Dragging Their Feet on Outer Brewster Island Bill
The Boston Herald editorial staff questions why lawmakers are “stonewalling on a responsible plan to boost the region’s supply of LNG” by delaying an up-or-down vote on the bill to de-designate Outer Brewster Island as part of the harbor islands park system. According to the staff, the bill would pave the way for an LNG facility on an “underutilized...
Shtokman Decision Pushed Back Until Summer
Posted on May 19, 2006 in Liquefaction, Markets and Competition | Comments Off on Shtokman Decision Pushed Back Until Summer
Platts Oilgram News today reports that Gazprom has postponed until summer its decision to announce the participants in its Shtokman LNG venture. “There are new interesting proposals from the candidates, which need to be studied,” according to a Gazprom spokesperson. The Russian-owned gas company was to have issued a decision in April. U.S. companies ConocoPhillips and...
Platts 5th Annual LNG Conference
Posted on May 19, 2006 in Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Platts 5th Annual LNG Conference
The United States can expect to see six to ten new LNG regasification terminals by 2012 and subsequent expansions of them all, according to Gabriel Avgerinos of Poten & Partners, speaking at the Platts 5th Annual LNG Conference in Houston. Avgerinos noted that emphasis on clean coal for power generation “may put a cap” on the growth of the gas market in the United...
Massachusetts State Senate Shelves LNG Bill
Posted on May 19, 2006 in Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Massachusetts State Senate Shelves LNG Bill
The Boston Globe and the Massachusetts State House News Service report that legislation that would permit AES to construct an LNG terminal on Outer Brewster Island was tabled yesterday in the state Senate at the request of State Sen. Pamela Resor (D-Acton). Supporters of the bill will attempt to send the measure to the Committee on Telecommunications, Energy and Utilities, which...
MARAD Responds to Blanco Veto
Posted on May 19, 2006 in Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on MARAD Responds to Blanco Veto
According to today’s Baton Rouge Advocate, Acting Deputy Maritime Administrator Julie A. Nelson has said in a letter toLouisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco that her stipulation that the state receive a portion of the revenue generated from the operation of LNG facilities in the Gulf of Mexico”is not permissible under federal law.” Revenue sharing was one of two issues addressed...