Coast Guard Announces Availability of Supplemental Environmental Assessment for Cove Point LNG Terminal Expansion
Posted on Mar 14, 2008 in Environmental, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Coast Guard Announces Availability of Supplemental Environmental Assessment for Cove Point LNG Terminal Expansion
The U.S. Coast Guard yesterday announced in the Federal Register that a draft supplemental Environmental Assessment related to the suitability of the waterway for the expansion of the Cove Point LNG regasification terminal is now available. Public comments are due by April 14,...
Boston Firefighters’ Union Criticizes Mayor’s Emergency Planning
Posted on Mar 14, 2008 in Regas Terminals & Capacity, Safety & Security, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Boston Firefighters’ Union Criticizes Mayor’s Emergency Planning
The Boston Globe reports that the Boston Firefighters’ Union has mailed fliers to 15,000 local residents near Boston Harbor criticizing Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s emergency planning. According to the report, the flier suggests that the Mayor has not adequately planned for a potential LNG incident. City officials disputed the claim, telling the Globe that a detailed security...
Op-Ed: Canada Should Follow Example of U.S. Offshore LNG Projects
Posted on Mar 13, 2008 in Canada & Mexico, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Safety & Security | Comments Off on Op-Ed: Canada Should Follow Example of U.S. Offshore LNG Projects
The Chronicle Herald (Canada) offers an op-ed which argues that Canadian LNG import proposals ought to follow the example of several proposed U.S. projects and place the projects offshore. The piece references BlueOcean Energy, proposed by ExxonMobil, and Shell’s proposed Broadwater Energy, to suggest that offshore terminals have several advantages over onshore projects,...
Incoming New York Governor Suggests He May Seek More Time to Decide on Broadwater LNG Proposal
Posted on Mar 13, 2008 in Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Incoming New York Governor Suggests He May Seek More Time to Decide on Broadwater LNG Proposal
New York’s Lt. Gov. David Paterson (D), who will be sworn in as Governor of New York on Monday, said at a press conference broadcast on various news outlets that he may seek more time to formulate a position on the proposed Broadwater LNG project. Current Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) was recently granted a 60-day extension of the New York State Department of State’s deadline for...
Connecticut Task Force Issues Report on Broadwater LNG Proposal
Posted on Mar 13, 2008 in Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Connecticut Task Force Issues Report on Broadwater LNG Proposal
In a statement released yesterday, Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) announced that the task force she appointed in 2005 to examine FERC’s environmental assessment of the Broadwater Energy LNG proposal has submitted its final report. Gov. Rell described the report as a “scathing indictment” of FERC’s assessment and said she planned to call incoming New...