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Developer Responds to EPA’s Concerns Regarding Proposed Jordan Cove Gas Pipeline Route

The Associated Press (via the Hillsboro Argus) reports that Williams-Northwest Pipeline, the company backing the natural gas pipeline that will connect the Jordan Cove LNG terminal with existing pipeline infrastructure, does not have a preference as to alternate pipeline routes. Recently the EPA expressed concerns with a pipeline route that would have crossed Coos...

Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline Phase IV Requests to Commence Service This Month

Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline has requested that FERC authorize the company to place its Phase IV expansion, which will help deliver LNG from the Canaport LNG terminal to the U.S. market, into service by January 15, 2009. The request is available in the FERC eLibrary under Docket No....

FERC Seeking Comments on Proposed Pipeline Connection with Gulf LNG Terminal

In yesterday’s Federal Register, FERC announced that it intends to prepare an environmental assessment for a proposed natural gas pipeline that would connect the Gulf LNG import terminal to existing pipeline infrastructure. Comments are due to FERC by January 15, 2009. The Mobile Press-Register (Ala.) provides additional...

Construction on Brunswick Pipeline Nearing Completion

A company representative told the Associated Press (carried via Seacoastonline.com) that construction of the Brunswick Pipeline may be complete by late January 2009. The pipeline will connect the Canaport LNG import terminal to existing pipeline infrastructure in New Brunswick for delivery of regasified LNG to Canadian and Northeastern U.S....

Oregon Senator Objects to Amending Mt. Hood Forest Plan to Allow Palomar Gas Pipeline

In a letter to the U.S. Forest Service, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) objected to amending the Mt. Hood Forest plan to allow for the construction of the Palomar natural gas pipeline, which would carry regasified LNG from the Bradwood Landing LNG terminal to the existing interstate natural gas pipeline. Noting a number of potential environmental impacts, Sen. Wyden stated that as the...

Construction Continues on Elba Island LNG Terminal Expansion and Associated Pipeline

The Savannah Morning News provides an update on the construction of the Elba Island LNG terminal expansion and the new construction of the Elba Express natural gas pipeline. A spokesperson for Elba Island LNG owner El Paso Corp. said that construction on a new LNG storage tank is continuing and the ship berth facilities have been modified to accommodate larger LNG...

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