Champlain Hudson Power Express, which got a federal green light on Oct. 1 to build and operate a 1,000-MW, high-voltage transmission line that would run from Canada through New York State and into New York City, now seeks an EPC contractor and additional financing for the estimated $2.2 billion project.The direct-current line would bring hydro and wind-generated power from Quebec into a constrained area of the Big Apple that also faces the closure of the 2,000-MW Indian Point nuclear plant in Buchanan, N.Y. It was granted a presidential permit by the U.S. Energy Dept.The 336-mile new line would terminate in
Photo by AP Wide World New criminal charges were filed against PG&E in the 2010 San Bruno pipeline fire that killed eight people. Related Links: July 29 Superseding Indictment Announcement and Link to Document April 1: U.S. Indicts PG&E on 12 Criminal Counts in Fatal 2010 California Blast San Bruno Fire May Cost California Utility More Than $4 Billion Pacific Gas & Electric could be facing new penalties of more than $1 billion when it appears in a U.S. federal court in San Francisco on Aug. 18 to address charges under a July 29 indictment that more than doubles the
Pacific Gas & Electric could be facing new penalties of more than $1 billion when it appears in a U.S. federal court in San Francisco on Aug. 18 to address charges under a July 29 indictment that more than doubles the number of its alleged violations of the federal Pipeline Safety Act linked to a fatal 2010 gas pipeline blast in San Bruno, Calif.
Pacific Gas & Electric will likely face federal criminal charges related to a September 2010 pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes in the city of San Bruno, Calif., the company said in a federal filing on March 27.
Related Links: DOE Conditionally Approves $7.7B Oregon LNG Export Facility Platt's: Expedited Federal Export Approvals Don't Mean US LNG into Europe Soon, Panels Say Sterne Agee Highlights Recent Government and Private Sector Moves of U.S. LNG Exports Action on North American liquified-natural-gas export-terminal projects accelerated late last month as regulators advanced projects on the Pacific coast and U.S. politicians debated faster approvals as a "geopolitical tool" to counter Russia's moves in the Ukraine.On March 24, the estimated $7.7-billion Jordan Cove Energy terminal in Coos Bay, Ore., became the first LNG project on the West Coast—and the first greenfield project in
photo by AP/wideworld Fatal San Bruno blast in 2010 and the proliferation of large-diameter, high-pressure natural-gas gathering lines in shale-play regions may boost oversight of a largely unregulated industry segment. Related Links: Pipeline Specialists Profit From Safety, Not Shale Boom House Passes Bill to Speed Approval of Natural Gas Pipelines, But Measure Likely Dead in Senate Natural Gas Boom Drives Pipeline Upgrades San Bruno Fire May Cost California Utility More Than $4 Billion Report Cites Problems on Keystone Pipeline Southern Leg As Congress weighs expedited construction of large-diameter natural-gas transmission pipelines, federal and state officials are considering more oversight of
The U.S. Energy Dept. said June 12 it would move forward to build a flagship clean-coal power plant in a small Illinois town, reversing a previous Bush administration decision to scrap the ambitious FutureGen project entirely in favor of smaller carbon-capture and storage projects (CCS) around the country. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and his industry partner, the FutureGen Industrial Alliance, a group of 20 leading power utilities and coal companies, reached agreement on the project, a 275-MW integrated gasification combined cycle power plant that could cost between $1.3 billion and $1.8 billion. The plant, to be sited in Mattoon, Ill.,
