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2008


Posted 2008 Aug 19

Natural gas industry worried about a natural gas glut!

New Freeport LNG import terminal applies to export LNG!

Enormous domestic natural gas supplies are defeating LNG speculators!

The LNG bubble has burst!

Read about the natural gas glut and Freeport LNG's export application.

Posted 2008 Aug 11

Birchbark Canoe
price generously reduced
by maker to just $15,000!

Renowned Passamaquoddy artist David Moses Bridges
has generously donated his fee for the
Museum-quality Birchbark Canoe we are using
to raise funds.

Go to our Canoe page for particulars

Posted 2008 Aug 11

SPB gets Maine
Dept. of Environmental Protection
LNG page removed

Since Downeast LNG withdrew from the Maine permitting process, their application materials’ continued presence on the Maine.gov website was invalid and inappropriate. At the request of SPB webmaster, Maine.gov’s LNG page was taken down on 2008 Aug 10.

Removed page that no longer works:
Maine DEP: LNG Information

Posted 2008 Aug 3

LNG imports for the
entire United States
fall 50% below
Quoddy Bay LNG’s
proposed import capacity

The entire country is importing less LNG per day
than Quoddy Bay LNG would process per day.

The LNG bubble has burst.

“Bleak future” is the appropriate term for
Quoddy Bay LNG, Downeast LNG, and Calais LNG.

Read the Reuters story in Forbes
“Analysis—US natgas price slide dims LNG import hopes”

Posted 2008 Jul 30

“US has more than a century's worth of gas reserves

“This study authoritatively refutes head-on the mistaken belief that we do not have sufficient supply.”

— Denise Bode, president of ACSF & CEO of gas producer Chesapeake Energy.

Read story in Platts
PDF documentRead the Report (PDF; 9.8 MB)

Posted 2008 Jul 25

DOE releases
Sandia National Laboratories' report:

Spills Over Water
from Large LNG Carriers”

Thermal Hazard Distance
would be 7–8% Greater
than previous studies have shown

Download PDF file of Sandia Report 2008 (338 KB)

Posted 2008 Jun 26

Calais LNG's Claims vs LNG Reality

Save Passamaquoddy Bay compares statements made by Calais LNG with the economic and infrastructure realities in the LNG industry.

Read the comparisons

Posted 2008 Jun 19

4th Annual
Sail-a-bration!

Celebrate Passamaquoddy Bay

A Flotilla from Head Harbour Light to Eastport

Join the Flotilla
or
Greet the Flotilla from the Eastport Fish Pier!

July 1

Bad Weather Date: July 5

Read More

Posted 2008 Jun 7

BEP has issued June 16 deadline
to parties in the QBLNG
permitting process
for responding to DeLNG's
motion to deny QBLNG's permits

Re Quoddy Bay LNG abusing State process

Posted 2008 Jun 3
Updated Jun 5

Calais LNG has submitted
its application prefiling to FERC

FERC Docket No. PF08-24-000

Posted 2008 Jun 3

Robbinston Residents request
DEP Deny QBLNG Permit

Quoddy Bay LNG abusing State process

PDF documentDownload the Motion (PDF; 76.5 KB)

Posted 2008 Apr 25

FERC Suspends Review
of Quoddy Bay LNG

PDF documentDownload FERC's announcement (PDF,15.6 KB)

Posted 2008 Apr 20

NNSPB alliance NN member
David Moses Bridges participates in
UN Forum on Indigenous Issues

April 21 – May 2

at United Nations in New York

LNG terminal in Passamaquoddy Bay
is a Forum issue

Read more

Posted 2008 Apr 8

US Senators co-sponsor bill
to revoke FERC LNG terminal
siting authority

List of Co-sponsors
Read Sen. Wyden's news release
Read about Senate Bill # S. 2822

2008 Apr 6

Quoddy Bay's Brian Smith fabricates
M&NE Pipeline information
in letter to Maine BEP

Go to the proof
Read Brian's Letter to the BEP (PDF 177.1 KB)

2008 Mar 14

QBLNG update to BEP

Brian Smith requests delay
of state permitting — again!
This time, until June!

— Not confirmed by BEP as of Mar 20 —

Read Brian's Letter to the BEP (PDF 177.1 KB)

2008 Feb 29

Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy
Tribal Government
objects to proposed
DeLNG pipeline route option #6
under Tribe's islands
in St. Croix River;
Chief demands pipeline route be moved

Download PDF (160 KB)

2008 Feb 29

Bureau of Indian Affairs
Intervenes in FERC
DeLNG Pipeline Application

Download PDF (3.3 MB)

2008 Feb 29

Quoddy Bay LNG reports to FERC that they have nothing to report

Download QBLNG filing to FERC

2008 Feb 13

Quoddy Bay LNG’s
“Winter 2008 Newsletter”
Non-news

Quoddy Bay LNG's newsletters haven't been provided online on their website for some time, now. (The last one published to their site, as of this writing, is dated September 2006.)

Perhaps that's because — as reflected in the lack of substance in their Winter 2008 edition that was bulk mailed around the area — Quoddy Bay LNG isn't making any progress.

In the meantime, the Northeast Energy Deepwater Port off Gloucester, Massachusetts, is ready to receive its first cargo, Canaport will be finished around the end of 2008, and the Suez deepwater port off Gloucester will be completed around a year later. Quoddy Bay LNG and the other two proposed Passamaquoddy Bay projects may be finally realizing that they're beating a dead horse.

2008 Feb 11

LNG tanker loses power off Cape Cod

Read AP News Story on Boston Herald website

Posted 2008 Feb 5

LNG Strategy Session

Saturday, Feb 9
2–4 pm ET / 3–5 pm AT

Eastport Arts Center
Washington Street
Eastport, ME

More

Posted 2008 Jan 11

Jenna L. Sullivan Memorial Concert

Concert by musicians featured in
Jenna Sullivan's 2008 Calendar,
"Musical Men of Passamaquoddy Bay"

7PM AT / 6PM ET
— Saturday, January 26 —
Van Horne Ballroom
Fairmount Algonquin Hotel
St. Andrews, NB

Proceeds to benefit Save Passamaquoddy Bay


2007


2007 December 20

Congressman Tom Allen
spams Save Passamaquoddy Bay

Even though Congressman Allen won't answer our questions regarding his position on LNG in Passamaquoddy Bay — presumably because we aren't in his Congressional District — he, nevertheless, has sent us his promotional email, hoping to win our votes in his upcoming election against Senator Susan Collins.

That's known as illicit email — email "spam."

For the record — nearly 600 days after asking — Sen. Collins, Sen. Olympia Snowe and Cong. Mike Michaud also won't answer our questions; however, at least they have responded with non-compliant political gibberish. Cong. Allen hasn't even given us the courtesy of a reply.

See facsimile of Cong. Allen's email spam

2007 December

Energy Information Agency (EIA),
US Department of Energy,
predicts sharp decline in natural gas consumption, higher prices by 2030

"EIA Annual energy outlook 2008 (early release)":
| Energy trends to 2030 | Energy Prices | Energy Consumption |

2007 Nov 28

FERC has no TRI reporting requirements
for LNG terminal applicants

Three FERC officials have indicated to SPB by telephone that they know of no requirements for LNG terminal applicants to demonstrate that they have Title, Right, or Interest (TRI) in land.

This means that unscrupulous developers could make fraudulent claims of TRI — or could lose TRI and hope to regain it without notifying FERC — and FERC, and all the other involved federal agencies, might continue to waste taxpayers' money on the application process when the applicant can't use the land.

Is this responsible government?

2007 Nov 15

Maine BEP reverses itself,
allows Downeast LNG withdrawal

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NEARLY A FULL YEAR AFTER APPLYING for its state permits in 2006 December…

DeLNG NOW HAS
NO PERMIT APPLICATIONS
BEFORE THE STATE

They're back at square one.

— More bad news for DeLNG investors —

2007 Oct 25

Maine BEP disallows
Downeast LNG withdrawal

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Permitting process placed on hold

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DeLNG attempt to block public testimony from record is rejected

— Bad news for DeLNG investors —

US Fish & Wildlife denies
DeLNG pipeline route through
Moosehorn NWR

Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) issues decision re DeLNG request to strike public testimony

BEP strikes only testimony outside the Board's perview (i.e., public safety, impacts on Canada)

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands, Submerged Lands Program submits concerns about Quoddy Bay LNG site selection, LNG processing platform, pier length & waterway suitability

State Denies DeLNG Request to Withdraw State Application

Nulankeyutomonen Nkihtahkomikumon
(We Take Care of Our Homeland)
Wins in US Court of Appeals

BIA Case goes back to District Court

PM Harper to President Bush: No Tankers

Canada has again, at the highest level, asserted its authority to prevent LNG ship transits into Passamaquoddy Bay

LNG projects on the skids

FERC notifies DeLNG & QBLNG
that both projects are in abeyance
until the applicants can satisfy
US Coast Guard Waterway Suitability
information requirements

US Coast Guard
Waterway Suitability Report
cannot be completed

Captain of the Port indicates to FERC that the USCG cannot provide a Waterway Suitability Report for either DeLNG or QBLNG.

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