Post-Gazette is reporting on this project -- a $3.8 billion project that will convert the company’s Cove Point LNG
import facility on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay into one of the
country’s first natural gas export terminals:
The project faces several regulatory hurdles and legal challenges.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will release its environmental
assessment of the proposed project Thursday, kicking off a 30-day public
comment period. FERC already has committed to holding a public hearing
about the proposal during that period.
Mr. Frederick expects the commission to authorize the project in July. The Department of Energy approved the plan in September.
“We expected to have FERC authorization before now,” he said.
But the Cove Point plan has become a target of environmental groups
that believe the project will disrupt marine wildlife, add more
greenhouse gas emissions, increase pollution in the Chesapeake Bay
community and amplify fracking in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays.
Dominion is involved in a dispute — and a civil lawsuit — with the
Sierra Club and its Maryland chapter over Sierra’s assertion that
Dominion is not authorized to export natural gas on that site, according
to terms of a 1972 environmental protection agreement that Sierra
struck with facility’s original owners. Dominion sued, and a local judge
and an appellate judge both have sided with Dominion in the matter.
The Maryland Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, has received the case.
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