The Sparrows Point Liquid Natural Gas tanker dock was planned before the Marcellus Shale gas discoveries.
The gas was to be transported from foreign (Russian?) gas fields by LNG tanker through the tanker docking facility and on to homes and businesses in New England.
I believe the Liquid Natural Gas facility at Sparrows Point, MD owned by AES Sparrows Point LNG, LLC will probably change their business model and the planned pipeline expansion through Chester County will send gas from Pennsylvania to Sparrows Point, MD and on to China and Japan.
I do not know how that will affect the proposed expansion of pipelines through Chester County
THE FERC AUTHORIZATION OF THE SPARROWS POINT LIGUID NATURAL GAS TANKER TERMINAL FACILITY AT SPARROWS POINT, MD AND ASSOCIATED AUTHORIZATIONS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC EXPRESS PIPELING ARE IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
The petitioners are asking for a review of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders authorizing the AES SPARROWS POINT LIQUID NATURAL GAS FACILITY in Baltimore County, MD and a review of the certificate for the associated Mid-Atlantic Express Pipeline through Maryland and Pennsylvania.
At this moment the petition is in abeyance.
United States Court of Appeals
For The District of Columbia Circuit
NO. 10-1028
Petitioners
Brandywine Conservancy
Bradford Glen Homeowners Association at Victoria Crossing
The State of Maryland
v.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
ALSO SEE:
Monday, June 06, 2011
Pennsylvania’s Rivers, Forests and Air Would Pay the Price
By Press Action
Don’t be surprised if Dominion Resources Inc., the diversified energy company based in Richmond, Va., becomes the next company to request permission from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to convert its liquefied natural gas import terminal to an export facility.
Dominion officials are on the record as saying the company is considering installing natural gas liquefaction facilities at its Cove Point LNG import terminal on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. The construction of liquefaction infrastructure would give Dominion the ability to export natural gas—most likely natural gas volumes produced from the nearby Marcellus Shale—from the Cove Point facility. Dominion already has a large-diameter natural gas pipeline that delivers gas away from the Cove Point LNG terminal. This pipeline could easily be converted to transport gas in the opposite direction, from wells drilled in the Marcellus back to the Cove Point facility.
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