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Passamaquoddy
Sipayik in the Permanent Hazard Zones (PDF; 1.3 MB; via We Take Care of Our Land*)
(Alternate download source)
Quoddy Bay LNG filed a document with FERC illustrating that nearly all of Pleasant Point Reservation would fall within Zones of Concern (Hazard Zones) 2 & 3. Since Quoddy Bay LNG says they intend to have one or two LNG ships at berth at all times, these Hazard Zones would permanently engulf Pleasant Point, exposing inhabitants to permanent risks of injury, fire, explosion, or death.
Also see the Hazard Zone documents received from the US Coast Guard through a Freedom of Information Act request.
- Passamaquoddy People ... Economics Flyer (PDF; 201.4 KB)
- Passamaquoddy People ... Who Take Care of the Land .... (PDF; 201.1 KB)
* "We Take Care of Our Land" is the English translation of Nulankeyutomonen Nkihtahkomikumon, the Passamaquoddy name of the tribal organization and member of the Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3-nation alliance.
- Richard Nixon fails at his attempt to create LNG import terminal in Machias; Machias fears terrorism and destruction.
Source: Will LNG Save America's Oil-Addicted Economy? — New America Media, 2005 Feb 18
See also: Whole Bay Study for an impact study of the Passamaquoddy Bay community.
Perry, Maine
Financial Framework Proposal from Quoddy Bay LNG to Town of Perry
Harpswell, Maine
Report on Potential Economic and Fiscal Impacts on the Town of Harpswell, Maine of the LNG Terminal Proposed by TransCanada Pipelines and ConocoPhillips — Prepared for Fairplay for Harpswell by Yellow Wood Associates, Inc. (2004 February 3; PDF 1.5 MB) Ratepayers for Affordable Clean Energy (RACE) (California)
Addendum E: Local Impacts of LNG Terminals — California Public Utility Commission Rulemaking 04-01-025 (2004 Mar 23)
Downeast LNG's Offer to Robbinston, 2007 Mar 2, Adobe Reader document (906.2 KB)
Lawsuit Against Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) & Secretary of the Interior, filed by Nulankeyutomonen Nkihtahkomikumon* and six Passamaquoddy Tribal Members
Nulankeyutomonen Nkihtakomikumon prevails on all points.The BIA reversed its position from its 2006 Nov 16 court appearance prior to the 2007 Sep 14 appeal hearing. BIA now claims the ground lease approval is final — that it was never conditional.
NOTE: Although he ruled that the case wasn't yet "ripe," it brings attention to FERC's requirement for a valid lease (or title) prior to initiating LNG terminal permitting.Since the lease has been determined to be "conditional," then, if the conditions are not met, the lease will not have been valid, and FERC will have violated its own rules; therefore, FERC must reject the Quoddy Bay LLC LNG project.
* Nulankeyutomonen Nkihtahkomikumon ("We Take Care of the Land") is the Passamaquoddy affiliate of the Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3-Nation Alliance.
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This motion totally ignores the BIA's statutory performance requirements that it passed on illegally to the FERC.
[Past Conferences are now on their own Past Events page. See our Calendar page for future conferences.]
Maine Board of Environmental Protection
Environmental Contaimination > Passamaquoddy Bay
Environmental Protection
13 NEPA Environmental Resource Reports
Fisheries
Geology — Seismology
Maine Board of Environmental Protection
- 2007 Sep 14 — Letter of withdrawal from State DEP permitting process (PDF 49.9 KB)
- In a letter to the U. S. Coast Guard, dated April 15, 2005, the EPA states that "because of the potential immediate and cumulative adverse environmental impacts to eastern Gulf waters and habitat associated with the operation of an 'open loop' ORV re-gasification system, EPA has assigned the proposed ORV technology a rating of EO-2, that is we have Environmental Objections because of the potential for significant environmental degradation that could be corrected by project modification or other feasible alternatives." [Emphasis added.]
- FERC source of same document. (Link leads to PDF files.)
NEPA = National Environmental Policy Act
focusing on LNG terminals, aquaculture, and wind farms — 2005 Sep 2 (PDF; 119.7 KB)
[Alternate download source — Save Passamaquoddy Bay website.]
This document lists seven proposed offshore LNG terminals currently under review:
- Gloucester, MA;
- Cabrillo Point (14 miles offshore Ventura County, CA);
- Clearwater Port (14 miles offshore southern CA);
- Main Pass Energy Hub (offshore AL, LA, MS);
- Compass Port (offshore AL, MS);
- Pearl Crossing (41 miles offshore LA);
- Beacon Port (offshore LA).
Passamaquoddy Bay Faults map
(including Oak Bay Fault)[Alternate source for map.]
[Past Events are now on their own Past Events page. See our Calendar page for future events.]
- Bureau of Indian Affairs, US Department of the Interior — Intervention in Downeast LNG Pipeline FERC application
- Robert Cupina, Deputy Director, Office of Energy Products — Slide Presentations
Richard Hoffman, Division of Gas—Environment and Engineering — Slide Presentations
Maps — Existing, Proposed, and Potential LNG Terminals
Pre-application Filing- Downeast LNG Project
- Quoddy Bay LLC Project
- Intervenors
- "Zones of Concern" Terminology — Exclusion Zones, Hazard Zones, Safety & Security Zones
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), US Department of the Interior
Robert Cupina
Deputy Director, Office of Energy Products
NOTE: This is a PDF version of Cupina's MS Powerpoint presentation, and the conversion was imperfect: some syMBols, fonts, and point sizes may not be identical to the originals.
- Slide Presentation given at Calais, Maine (2005 Oct 26) PowerPoint (Requires Microsoft PowerPoint, or compatible, software)
Richard Hoffmann
Director, Division of Gas — Environment and Engineering
NOTE: This is a PDF version of Hoffmann's MS Powerpoint presentation, and the conversion was imperfect: some syMBols, fonts, and point sizes may not be identical to the originals.
- Slide Presentation given at Robbinston, Maine (2005 Sep 30) PowerPoint (Requires Microsoft PowerPoint, or compatible, software)
Maps
- Existing, Proposed, and Potential LNG Terminals
- Save Passamaquoddy Bay Archived FERC Maps
- 2007 October 31
- 2005 October 7
- 2005 August 22
Pre-application Filing
- Calais LNG Project Co. Project (FERC Docket No. PF08-24)
- Developer's Documents
and Large Format files, 2008 Jun 6 (PDF)
- FERC Documents re Calais LNG Project Co.
NOTE: This is a whoppingly-large-size file of scanned pages as images only, residing in the FERC eLibrary.
[Alternate download site.]
- FERC Documents re Downeast LNG
[Rob Wyatt of Downeast LNG — the developer who bragged, "I've actually done this before," finally figured out, after a previous and flawed attempt, how to correctly submit the proper pre-application documents.]
- Quoddy Bay LLC Project
[NOTE: These documents are also available on the FERC website (Docket No. PF06-11).
- FERC Documents re Quoddy Bay LLC
[NOTE: This letter was written almost one month after FERC began the pre-filing process with Quoddy Bay LLC.]
- Developer's Documents
See related Intervenor documents, below, filed by others about this project.
- Intervenors
- Robert Godfrey, Save Passamaquoddy Bay
Supporting Documents:
Application Filing
"Zones of Concern" Terminology
- Exclusion Zones
- Hazard Zones & Zones of Concern
- Safety and/or Security Zones
LNG Terminal Need
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United Nations
Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS)
"Law of the Sea" Full Text (HTML)
WEBMASTER'S COMMENTS: The Convention states that it is an agreement among signatories. Since the United States is not a signatory, (see "Law of the Sea" Status, 2005, below), it appears that signatory countries such as Canada are not obligated to honor the Convention provisions — even "Innocent Passage" provisions — as they pertain to United States shipping interests.
UNCLOS makes it clear what countries are affected by the treaty:
PART I, Article 1, 2. (1) "States Parties" means States which have consented to be bound by this Convention and for which this Convention is in force.
Since the U.S. hasn't "consented to be bound by" (Congress hasn't ratified) UNCLOS, then the Convention is not in force for the U.S.; the U.S. has no rights or responsibilities under UNCLOS.
Local LNG speculators and the U.S. Department of State can wish all they want for LNG ships to have UNCLOS right of innocent passage into Passamaquoddy Bay, but their wish is hollow — the treaty clearly states that the U.S. doesn't have that right.
US Coast Guard lawyer agrees local LNG projects have no UNCLOS innocent passage:
"Without being a party to the Law of the Sea Convention, we cannot avail ourselves of the dispute-resolution provisions," [said US Coast Guard Capt. Charles Michel, Chief, Office of Maritime and International Law]. — Read full 2007 Dec 12 article
This document lists nations alphabetically, and indicates which nations are, and are not, ratifiers of the Law of the Sea Convention.
- See also, "'Limits in the Seas,' United States responses to Excessive National Maritime Claims"
United States
- Liquefied Natural Gas Import Terminal Development Act of 2004 (HR 4413)
Reports for US Congress — Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
- Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Import Terminals: Siting, Safety and Regulation (PDF; 130KB; 2004 January 28)
- Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Infrastructure Security: Background and Issues for Congress (PDF; 222KB; 2003 SepteMBer 9)
Canada
Parliament — House of Commons
Environment
- MP Greg Thompson challenges Minister of Transportation and Prime Minister to prevent LNG traffic from using Head Harbour Passage (2005 Sep 28)
- MP Greg Thompson presents Campobello Island petition to prohibit LNG tankers from Head Harbour Passage, (2004 Nov 24)
- Member of Parliament Greg Thompson urges Government to prevent LNG tankers from passing through Head Harbour Passage. (2004 Nov 23)
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Canada-US Relations
United States
Senate
Energy Hearings
- The Future of Liquefied Natural Gas: Siting and Safety (Sen. Jack Reed—RI, 2005 Feb 15)
"FERC’s approval process for LNG terminals is deeply flawed and leaves too
many questions unanswered" and "...the Coast Guard has told my office repeatedly that it does not have the resources to adequately secure these LNG tankers and marine terminals, while fulfilling its other post-911 responsibilities."
Maine
US Congressman Tom Allen
Spam (Junk Email) sent to Save Passamaquoddy Bay
- 2007 Dec 20 — "Safe and Sound: Protecting Consumers from Dangerous Toys, Food, and Medicines"
… and yet, Congressman Allen won't respond to our 2006 May 3 questions about his position on dangerous LNG development in Passamaquoddy Bay.
In our request to Allen to stop spamming us, Allen responded via US post that it's too bad we aren't interested in issues that interest him — and has kept on spamming us!
NOTE: If the Can-Spam Act that Allen voted to approve included junk political email, as it does commercial email, Allen would be violating federal law.
Letter recommending against Downeast LNG project (61.4 KB; 2007 Jul 12)
Gov. Baldacci asks U.S. Sen. Collins for assistance against Canada and New Brunswick (2007 Mar 6; PDF 506.0 KB)
Conservation Law Foundation letter to FERC (2005 Jan 21; PDF 110.7 KB)
Example Letters
Dan Prichard
- Letter to Maine Department of Environmental Protection commenting about Downeast LNG's project's Site Selection, Pier Length, and Waterway Suitability (2007 Jun 28)
NOTE: This is a PDF version of Prichard's MS Powerpoint presentation, and the conversion was imperfect: some symbols, fonts, and point sizes may not be identical to the originals.
- Slide Presentation given at Calais, Maine (2005 Oct 26) PowerPoint (Requires Microsoft PowerPoint, or compatible, software)
Letter recommending against Downeast LNG project (61.4 KB; 2007 Jul 12)
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NOTE: This is a PDF version of Prichard's MS Powerpoint presentation, and the conversion was imperfect: some syMBols, fonts, and point sizes may not be identical to the originals.
- Slide Presentation given at Calais, Maine (2005 Oct 26) PowerPoint (Requires Microsoft PowerPoint, or compatible, software)
Channel Design & Ship Maneuver
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