Save Passamaquoddy Bay
Alliance to Protect the Quoddy Region
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Maine
LNG Terminal
Development Failure History
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Calais
Casco Bay - 2004 (Failed) Corea (Failed) Cousins Island (Failed) Cumberland, Casco Bay (Failed) Gleason Cove (Failed) Gouldsboro (Failed) Harpswell (Failed) Hope Island (Failed) Machias (Failed) Mill Cove Perry (Failed) Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation (Failed) Red Beach Robbinston Sears Island (Failed) Sipayik (Failed) Split Rock (Failed) Yarmouth (Failed) |
BP Consulting (Failed)
Calais LNG Cianbro (Failed) Downeast LNG Fairwinds (Failed) Northeast Energy Quoddy Bay LLC (Failed) Quoddy Bay LNG (Failed) St. Croix Consulting (Failed) St. Croix Development (Failed) TransCanada Pipelines Ltd (Failed) US Government (?) |
2005–2010
Town of Perry
TopLocation: Perry — between Mahar Rd. & Cannon Hill Rd. (storage tanks for Split Rock terminal)
The Split Rock Ground Lease between Pleasant Point Tribal Government and Quoddy Bay LNG provided for the LNG ship berth and other LNG facilities essential to the project. The LNG piping was planned to go beneath Split Rock, under Half Moon Cove, and onto shore in Perry. On 2009 June 9, Pleasant Point Tribal Government ended its Ground Lease with Quoddy Bay LNG essentially ended the life of the project.
Developer: Quoddy Bay LLC/Quoddy Bay LNG(See also, "Robbinston", "Split Rock", "Gleason Cove")
Results: (Failure)
See Sipayik/Pleasant Point Reservation for Quoddy Bay LNG failure at Split Rock, Sipayik.Anti-LNG Organizations: Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3-Nation Alliance; Perry Citizens for Responsible Growth
Reference: (1) FERC Docket , (2) Quoddy Tides article, "Sipayik council votes to end project."
with Quoddy Bay LNG
City of Calais
TopLocation: Calais — Village of Red Beach, just south of Devil's Head
Developer: Calais LNG Project Co.
Formerly (a.k.a.):
- 9th Name Used:
Calais LNG Project Co.
- 8th Name Used:
Calais LNG
- 7th Name Used:
Calais Maine LNG Import Terminal (2008)
- 6th Name Used:
Northeast Energy Development * (2007)
- 5th Name Used:
Northeast Energy
- 4th Name Used:
Calais LNG
- 3rd Name Used:
St. Croix Development (2005)
- 2nd Name Used:
St. Croix Consulting (2005)
- 1st Name Used:
BP Consulting (2005) * This name appears to be a partnership that may still exist.
2008 Oct 21 — Calais LNG corrects false claim in Status Report to FERC that they had met with Save Passamaquoddy Bay.
2009 Dec 18 — Calais LNG filed formal FERC application.
2010 Apr 15 — Calais LNG financial backer Goldman Sachs accused of committing fraud by US Securities and Exchange Commission.
2010 Apr 30 — Calais LNG financial backer Goldman Sachs accused of criminal activity.
2010 Jul 21 — Calais LNG announced its financial backer, GS Power Holdings, a wholely owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, is ending its financial relationship with Calais LNG on 2010 August 11.
Anti-LNG Organizations: Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3-Nation Alliance
Reference: Bangor Daily News
Town of Robbinston
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Location: Robbinston — Mill Cove
Results: (Failure pending)
2007 Nov 15 — Downeast LNG withdrew state permits on 2007 Nov 15;
2009 Jan 9 — US Coast Guard Waterway Suitability Report requires Downeast LNG to obtain Canada's cooperation for secure LNG ship transits; otherwise, Coast Guard will refuse entry into US.
2009 May 15 — FERC Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) released.
2009 Jul 6 — Downeast LNG failed to meet technical question deadline for FERC's DEIS questions.
2010 Apr 5 (or earlier) — Downeast LNG office listed for sale.
Anti-LNG Organizations: Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3-Nation Alliance.
Reference:
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Location: Robbinston — Near US-1 (storage tanks for Split Rock terminal)
Developer: Quoddy Bay LLC/LNG (See also, "Split Rock", "Perry", "Gleason Cove")
Results: (Location concept deserted in 2006 by Quoddy Bay LLC)
Anti-LNG Organizations: Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3-Nation Alliance
Reference:
Sipayik/Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation
Results: Quoddy Bay LNG project has failed at all locations
Top2008 Apr 25 — FERC suspended review of Quoddy Bay LNG applications.
2008 Oct 17 — Quoddy Bay LLC/LNG was dismissed by FERC from Federal permitting;
2008 Nov 6 — Quoddy Bay LLC/LNG withdrew from State of Maine Board of Environmental Protection permitting;
2009 Jun 9 — Pleasant Point Tribal Government ended its project site lease relationship with QBLLC/QBLNG;
2009 Jul 29 (or earlier) — Quoddy Bay LNG removed by FERC from its maps: (1)
Proposed LNG Sites in North America [PDF]; and (2)
2010 Jan — Quoddy Bay LNG sued by TRC for nonpayment.
2010 Apr 3 — Quoddy Bay LNG signs removed from building and along Maine Route-190.
2010 Apr 23 — Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) canceled Quoddy Bay LNG lease with Pleasant Point Tribal Government. (Because of a nearly five-year-long lawsuit by Nulankeyutomonen Nkihtahkomikumon against the BIA for violating the law in approving the ground lease in the first place, the courts required the BIA to come to an administrative conclusion regarding the lease. Nulankeyutomonen Nkihtakumikumon prevailed.)
Location: Sipayik/Pleasant Point Reservation — Gleason Cove (See also, "Robbinston", "Split Rock", "Perry")
Developer: Quoddy Bay LLC/LNG (See also, "Robbinston", "Split Rock", "Perry")
Anti-LNG Organizations: Nulankeyutomonen Nkihtahkomikumon, a member of the Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3-Nation Alliance
Result: Failure; On 2005 Mar 28, Town of Perry voted down allowing an LNG terminal on "Article 40" land (Perry had approval authority on commercial development of land it had sold to Pleasant Point in the 1980s — referred to in Article 40.)
Reference:
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Location:
- Sipayik/Pleasant Point Reservation — Split Rock import terminal and pier-based regasification facility (See also, "Robbinston")
- Perry — LNG storage tanks and land-based regasification facility (See also, "Perry")
Developer: Quoddy Bay LLC/LNG (See also, "Robbinston", "Gleason Cove", "Perry")
Anti-LNG Organizations: Nulankeyutomonen Nkihtahkomikumon, member of the Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3-Nation Alliance
Result: Failure
- Federal permitting suspended by FERC on 2008 Apr 25;
- FERC permitting dismissed without prejudice* on 2008 Oct 17;
- Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) permitting withdrawn by QBLLC on 2008 Oct 26;
- State permits withdrawal approved without prejudice* by BEP on 2008 Nov 6.
- Pleasant Point Tribal Government ended ground lease relationship with QBLLC on 2009 Jun 9.
- FERC removed QBLNG from its maps of Potential and Proposed LNG Terminals in North America on or before 2009 Jul 29.
- Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) cancels federal ground lease approval between Pleasant Point Tribal Government and Quoddy Bay LNG on 2010 Apr 23.
Reference:
Sears Island
Developer: Exxon-Mobil
No proposal
Result: Failure
Casco Bay
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Town of Yarmouth, Casco Bay
Location: Yarmouth — Cousins Island
Developer: Transcanada Pipelines Ltd. (See also, "Hope Island".)
Anti-LNG Organizations: Save Casco Bay, Inc., Friends of Casco Bay
Result: Failure; 2004 May 4, Developer declared site unsuitable.
References: http://news.mainetoday.com/indepth/lng/news/040605lng.shtml
http://news.mainetoday.com/indepth/lng/news/040511verdict.shtml
Location: Cumberland — Hope Island
Developer: Transcanada Pipelines Ltd. (See also, "Cousins Island".)
Anti-LNG Organizations: Save Casco Bay, Inc., Friends of Casco Bay
Result: Failure; Town decided not to negotiate project
References: http://news.mainetoday.com/indepth/lng/news/040605lng.shtml
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http://news.mainetoday.com/indepth/lng/news/040511verdict.shtml
Town of Gouldsboro
Location: Gouldsboro — Village of Corea
Developer: Cianbro
Anti-LNG Organizations: None apparently formed
Result: Failure, 2004 Sep 7, Cianbro bowed out due to strong community opposition.
Reference: http://news.mainetoday.com/indepth/lng/news/040908lng.shtml
Location: Former Fuel Depot
Developer: Conoco Phillips Fairwinds LNG
Anti-LNG Organizations: Fairplay for Harpswell, Fishing Families for Harpswell, Save Casco Bay, Inc., Friends of Casco Bay
Result: Failure; 2004 March 9, Harpswell citizens voted to reject project.
Reference: http://news.mainetoday.com/indepth/lng/news/040310harpswell.shtml
Early 1970s
Location: Not known
Developer: Proposed by President Richard Nixon, US Government; private developer, if any, not known.
Anti-LNG Organizations: Not known
Result: Failure; LNG project apparently rejected by Town of Machias.
Reference: http://www.energybulletin.net/4475.html