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Lawmakers push regulators to reexamine compressor approval WEYMOUTH – Members of Weymouths congressional delegation want federal regulators to reconsider their decision to allow the compressor station on the banks of the Fore River to go into service.  U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch and U.S. Sens. Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren recently sent a letter to Richard Glick, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, asking that the commission rescind the in-service authorization issue...

Highlights PM Modi to lay foundation stone of several projects in Assam, West Bengal on Monday. PM will dedicate to the nation important projects of the oil & gas sector in Dhemaji, Assam. He will also dedicate to the nation and inaugurate several railway projects in West Bengals Hooghly. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit the poll-bound states Assam and West Bengal on Monday (February 22, 2021), announced the  Prime Ministers Office. According to PMO, Prime Ministe...

U.S. Expected to Leave Germans Out of Next Nord Stream Sanctions Bloomberg 19/02/2021 Nick Wadhams and Vanessa Dezem (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is likely to hold off sanctioning any German entities for now over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia, according to four people familiar with the matter, as the Biden administration seeks to halt the project without antagonizing a close European ally. A key report to Congress that was due last Tuesday could be out as soon as Frida...

Electric E-1 – Calpine Corporation, Dynegy Inc., Eastern Generation, LLC, Homer City Generation, L.P., NRG Power Marketing LLC, GenOn Energy Management, LLC, Carroll County Energy LLC, C.P. Crane LLC, Essential Power, LLC, Essential Power OPP, LLC, Essential Power Rock Springs, LLC, Lakewood Cogeneration, L.P., GDF SUEZ Energy Marketing NA, Inc., Oregon Clean Energy, LLC, and Panda Power Generation Infrastructure Fund, LLC v. PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (Docket No...

Although natural gas storage volumes in the US Rockies currently stand well above average, the arctic blast sweeping through the Lower 48 in the days ahead looks to prompt the region’s largest weekly withdrawal on record, swiftly flipping the storage overhang to a deficit as hub prices soar to historic highs. While demand in multiple ...

Petition for electric compressor station motor rejected WEYMOUTH — The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection denied a citizens group petition to have an electric powered turbine at a compressor station in the Fore River Basin. DEP presiding officer Jane Rothchild said federal regulations dont support a "wholesale replacement" of the gas turbine by Algonquin Gas Transmission, the Enbridge subsidiary that runs the compressor station.  “A preponderance of the evidence demo...

QUINCY – Well, its over.  2020, a year unlike any other, has come and gone. It unleashed a once-in-a-generation pandemic and the resulting economic slowdown, exacerbated by lockdowns aimed at protecting people as cases mounted. Gov. Charlie Baker and local politicians have called on the federal government for more help, which is on the way after President Donald Trump signed a second federal COVID-19 aid bill. As the death toll from COVID-19 in Massachusetts surpassed 12,000 this week an...

Out of the way, little people — big energy project coming through Updated December 19, 2020, 2:30 a.m. Email to a Friend From Weymouth to East Boston to Minnesota, fossil fuel projects carry the day Having spent many mornings, at the crack of dawn, standing with the good citizens that make up the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, or FRRACS, holding signs of protest on the bridge above the Weymouth compressor plant site, I was glad to see an investigative piece by Boston ...

The new gas pipeline compressor station was set to open this month, but now faces a full safety review.John Tlumacki/Globe Staff/File 2020 A controversial natural gas compressor station in Weymouth will not start pumping natural gas this week, as the operator had previously indicated, and the start date now depends on the resolution of a full safety review that is not expected until January. Max Bergeron, a spokesman for Enbridge, told the Globe last week that the company was planning to put th...

E-1 – Omitted E-2 – Cybersecurity Incentives (Docket No. RM21-3-000). Agenda item E-2 may be a new docket relating to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on Cybersecurity Incentives. The NOPR proceeding may expand and formalize the concepts outlined in a Commission staff white paper issued on June 18, 2020, which explored certain transmission incentive policy proposals designed to encourage utility spending on protocols that would ostensibly improve security and compliance with critical ...