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WEYMOUTH- Town Solicitor Joseph Callanan said legal precedents don’t allow Town Council to file a legal brief with federal regulators about safety and health concerns posed by a natural gas compressor station in the Fore River Basin. Collectively, the Town Council does not have the authority to sue, he said during a Council meeting, March 8. “If you do it as individuals, I have no problem with that.”
Councilor-at-large Rebecca Haugh said her colleagues could draft a letter that details their concerns about the compressor station and give it to residents or community groups who seek an intervenor status with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), James Robb, testified that the state’s heavy reliance on natural gas and wind to make electricity has put Texas at higher risk of outages because both resources have been shown to be vulnerable to disruption.
“Our assessment has consistently shown there are three regions of the country particularly vulnerable to these dynamics – California, Texas and New England,” Robb said.
Rob vowed that NERC and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) would investigate whether natural gas supply problems caused most of the Texas outages or whether many power plants simply failed to adequately protect equipment against the cold.
https://youtu.be/nIznov8xLFw Alison Silverstein is an independent energy consultant and former strategic advisor for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (FERC) She spoke for a webinar sponsored by Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation.
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