|| New Announcements || Calendar || Notable Quote(s) ||
 |
|
|
Merchandise & Gift Ideas
A campy video production starring area residents and rare creatures
Incident at Pulpit Rock
|
|
||
|
|
2010 |
|
|
|
? |
FERC Issuance of Notice of Availability
>> NOT YET RESCHEDULED << |
? |
FERC Authorization Decision Deadline
>> NOT YET RESCHEDULED << |
? |
Maine Board of Environmental Protection >> NOT YET RESCHEDULED << Save Passamaquoddy Bay and Nulankeyutomonen Nkihtahkomikumon presented to the BEP the same issues faced by failed Quoddy Bay LNG and Downeast LNG. It has resulted in Calais LNG obtaining a hearing postponement from the Maine BEP. |
Arthur Gelber, of Calais LNG Project Company —
"… Maine could actually own and finance such a [natural gas] pipeline at a more advantageous rate than industry. … Governor, I would like to arrange a meeting with you and my team, along with the Commissioner for Transportation and the head of the Turnpike Authority, to discuss a natural gas pipeline traversing the Maine Energy Corridors as a more viable and less predatory alternative to [Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline]."
—
Calais LNG letter to Maine Governor John Baldacci, 2010 Aug 12 (PDF; 52 KB).
Webmaster’s Comments: On the day after Calais LNG was supposed to — but did not — have a new investor after financial powerhouse Goldman Sachs deserted the project, Calais LNG asked the Governor of Maine to pay for and own a new 343-mile natural gas pipeline from Calais to Boston, rather than expand the existing Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (M&NE) or have private enterprise build and own it.
There are 343 miles of M&NE natural gas pipeline from Baileyville to Boston*. At $2 million per mile, Calais LNG wants around $686 million from Maine taxpayers to help out an unneeded and unviable project.
* Spectra Energy's Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline assets webpage
Ian Emergy, of Calais LNG Project Company, regarding Goldman Sachs deserting his project —
“There is a little hiccup here, a little bump in the road, and we are going to get through it.”
— “Calais LNG project will continue, vows project manager,” The Saint Croix Courier, 2010 Jul 27. [Free registration required.]
Webmaster's Comments: Goldman Sachs' financial desertion is merely a "hiccup"? It is recognition that Calais LNG has no value.
Read all our Notable Quotes on a separate page.
Passamaquoddy — Nulankeyutomonen Nkihtahkomikumon — (“We Take Care of Our Land”) Sipayik (Pleasant Point), Saint Croix Scoodic Band, and Indian Township tribal members
Canada — Campobello Island, Deer Island,
Grand Manan, St. Andrews, St. George, St. Stephen, Charlotte County,
New Brunswick, and Canada
US — Eastport, Perry, Robbinston, Calais, Red Beach, Pembroke, Washington County, and USA
Legislation WatchSee our Legislation Watch page containing more information.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Downeast LNG is headed down the same non-compliant dead-end path taken by defunct Quoddy Bay LNG. Downeast LNG is…
- Violating LNG industry terminal-siting best safe practices; and
- Violating FERC information-request deadlines.
>>> Answers were due on 2009 July 6.<<<
427 days (2010 Sep 6) = 14 months
This free script provided by Rainbow Arch
Sep 1
Announcements > 2010 > September
- Sep 1 — BEP sets back CLNG conference of council meeting; financial backing info still wanting
FERC > FERC LNG Project Review Process > eLibrary Dockets > Docket Numbers — Prefiling & Formal Filing > Formal Filing Docket Comment Submissions > Downeast LNG — CP07-52 > 2010 > September
> Sep 1
- FERC OFFICE OF ENERGY PROJECTS — FERC once again requests data from Downeast LNG arising from the applicant's Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). The original deadline for answering FERC's data requests was 2009 July 6, meaning Downeast LNG is already nearly 1 year and 2 months late in providing those answers.
FERC continues to indicate their deadline is not a deadline, at all, by writing, "If certain information cannot be provided within this time frame, please indicate which items would be delayed, and their projected filing dates."News Stories & Editorial > Sep 1 [For faster page loading, go to our Latest News page.]
- Another big idea falls through (Aug 30)
- What the king of natural gas forecasting says about future prices (Aug 31)
- Takes of marine mammals incidental to specified activities; taking marine mammals incidental to operations of a [liquified natural gas terminal]
- Anti-LNG port group set meeting
- Rhode Island Congressional delegation raise concerns with Weaver's Cove LNG project (Aug 31)
- Gubernatorial candidates put forth plans in Newport
- FERC pre-filing process not applicable to Cameron LNG re-export proposal (Aug 31)
- Companies seek unconditional OK for LNG terminal (Aug 30)
- Gas pipeline developers sue Oregon land officials (Aug 31)
- How the U.S. natural gas ETF (UNG) lost 23% in August
- Beaten-up natural gas enters September on shaky footing (Aug 31)
- Extreme quantities of natural gas avails may produce unintended consequences
- 'Supply dragon' keeps natural gas in the doldrums
- US opens the door on shale bed gas development (Aug 31)
- Liquefied natural gas facilities: Obtaining approval of alternative vapor-gas dispersion models (Aug 31)
- Dearth of LNG carriers to keep spot rates high in 2010
Aug 30
News Stories & Editorial > Aug 30
- Fisherman paints dismal post-LNG picture (Aug 24)
- Our view: Crushing pollution [Editorial]
- Gear it down [Editorial] (Aug 29)
- Washington State denies Water Quality Certification for Bradwood Landing Pipeline project
Aug 28
News Stories & Editorial > Aug 28
- US LNG import projects stall as shale gas, overseas demand swell (Aug 30)
- Goldboro LNG loss: Timing everything [Editorial] (Aug 27)
- Future pipeline to Quebec?
- Editorial: Power play hurts public
- Savannah City Council wants details on LNG trucking plan (Aug 27)
- FERC Chairman responds to Louisiana Congressional selegation on Sabine Pass LNG liquefaction (Aug 27)
- Sempra Pipelines & Storage announces successful start-up of Mississippi Hub gas storage facility [News Release] (Aug 27)
Aug 26
News Stories & Editorial > Aug 26
Aug 25
News Stories & Editorial > Aug 25
Bad News for LNG is plentiful today
- Goldboro LNG plant a no go
- Weaver's Cove Energy invites FERC chairman to tour project site
- Peru: Camisea gas to arrive in the US on Sept. 10
- Two Gulf Coast LNG projects crumble under market pressure
- Natural gas industry to 2016 [News release]
- Shale plays and how they weaken nat gas prices
- DOE National Laboratory breakthrough could enhance use of domestic natural gas, methane hydrate resources
Aug 24
News Stories & Editorial > Aug 24
- Briefing on the Global Shale Gas Initiative Conference
- Plan for N.S. LNG terminal cancelled
- Liquefied natural gas terminal plan in N.S. shelved due to drop in demand
- U.S. Sen. Scott Brown addresses economy, job market at chamber event
- Southern LNG applies to load LNG on trucks at Elba Island facility
- Mitsubishi Corporation to invest in Canada's Penn West Energy Trust's shale gas development project
- Plentiful unconventional gas supplies adversely affects global LNG markets
Aug 23
TopDocuments > Letters, Memos, Faxes, Emails, & Others' News Releases
News Stories & Editorial > Aug 23
- Rough seas for liquefied natural gas terminal [Editorial]
- Congressmen Barney Frank and James McGovern maneuver to kill Hess LNG terminal in Fall River (Aug 20)
- Jamestown is Rhode Island's center for LNG opposition (Aug 22)
- Coast Guard responds to Cameron LNG proposed export operations
- Noranda Bauxite optimistic (Aug 22)
- No substance to Valdez option under AGIA [Opinion] (Aug 20)
- LNG application decision delayed (Aug 20)
- Hearings officer OKs gas pipeline
- Hearings officer approves LNG pipeline for Clatsop County
You are visitor number since 2004 August 27.
