• Land

New Investigation Shows Pipelines Always Get Their Way With FERC

• #conservationist
• 5th Amendment rights
• Atlantic Coast Pipeline
• FERC
• oil and gas
• pipeline
• Private Property Rights
• Takings

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) sides with pipeline companies over private landowners in 99% of the cases when landowners refuse to grant a company permission to bury a pipeline on their land.  

Why This Matters:  The FERC’s stilted process may soon end. In addition to Congressional oversight, a federal appeals court is considering whether to disallow FERC from blocking landowners taking their cases to court right away, before ground is broken.

• Energy

FERC Reaches “Compromise” and Approves New LNG Export Terminal

• CO2
• FERC
• fracking
• GHGs
• LNG
• methane
• storms

For the first time in two years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission late last week approved a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export project — the Calcasieu Pass in Cameron Parish, Louisiana — after the Commission’s two Republican commissioners and one of the two Democratic commissioners agreed to use a new approach for consideration of direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from LNG facilities. 

• Politics

Pipeline and LNG Terminal Project Puts Oregon Governor On the Spot

• climate change
• Colorado
• FERC
• fracking
• Governor Kate Brown
• LNG
• Oregon
• pipeline
• President Trump
• wetlands

In Oregon, there is a fossil fuel infrastructure project undergoing permitting and approval that is stirring up controversy, putting the newly re-elected Governor of the state, Kate Brown, on the spot over her campaign promise to tackle the issue of climate change.  The Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal and its Pacific Connector Gas pipeline would transport fracked natural gas from Colorado all the way to Oregon’s coast, where it would be super-cooled into liquid form and loaded on ships in the terminal bound for international markets.  A huge crowd of protesters attended a state hearing on the project expressed grave concerns about the large quantities of soil that would need to be displaced in order to install the proposed three-foot wide pipeline, spanning 229 miles, 78 wetlands, and 485 waterways across the state through four Oregon Counties.