Woodside Suspends OceanWay LNG Deepwater Port Project
Posted on Jan 16, 2009 in Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Woodside Suspends OceanWay LNG Deepwater Port Project
Woodside Natural Gas announced yesterday that it has suspended its OceanWay LNG deepwater port project proposed for offshore Southern California. A company spokesperson told the Los Angeles Times that Woodside plans to revive the project when economic conditions...
U.S. Senate Vote to Designate River as “Wild and Scenic” May Impact Weaver’s Cove LNG Project
Posted on Jan 16, 2009 in Environmental, Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on U.S. Senate Vote to Designate River as “Wild and Scenic” May Impact Weaver’s Cove LNG Project
This week the U.S. Senate voted to designate 40 miles of the Taunton River as protected under the 1968 Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, reports the Providence Business News. The U.S. House of Representatives approved the same designation last summer. If the designation becomes law, the Weaver’s Cove LNG project proposed for Fall River, Mass, would need to receive approval from the...
Oregon Gov. Pledges to Challenge FERC’s Authorization of Bradwood Landing LNG in Court
Posted on Jan 16, 2009 in Litigation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Oregon Gov. Pledges to Challenge FERC’s Authorization of Bradwood Landing LNG in Court
The Associated Press (carried via The Oregonian) reports that Gov. Ted Kulongoski (D-Ore.) has promised to challenge FERC’s conditional authorization of the Bradwood Landing LNG regasification project in federal court, following a FERC order released yesterday denying a rehearing on the matter. Business and labor officials spoke out in support of the latest FERC order....
Maryland Governor Disappointed in FERC Decision to Authorize AES Sparrows Point LNG Project
Posted on Jan 16, 2009 in Policy, Legislation and Politics, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Maryland Governor Disappointed in FERC Decision to Authorize AES Sparrows Point LNG Project
Governor Martin O’Malley (D-Md.) reacted to FERC’s decision to conditionally approve the AES Sparrows Point LNG project and associated pipeline with “sincere disappointment.” Gov. O’Malley went on to say that authorization of the project “flies in the face of every tenet of environmental justice.” Read more in the...
MARAD Announces New Location for Safe Harbor LNG Open House
Posted on Jan 16, 2009 in Federal Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on MARAD Announces New Location for Safe Harbor LNG Open House
MARAD announced in today’s Federal Register that it has changed the location for an open house and public meeting scheduled for January 29, 2009, regarding the Safe Harbor LNG deepwater port...