Filed By: Save Passamaquoddy Bay
Filed Date: 2/28/2013
Accession No: 20130228-5395
Description: Downeast LNG's purpose and need comment of Save Passamaquoddy Bay under CP07-52, et. al.

Summary: Canaport LNG (a mere 40 miles from proposed Downeast LNG) output is down 42% this winter, compared to last winter, due to the ocean of US domestic natural gas near New England. There is a vast domestic supply, invalidating Downeast LNG's purpose and need.

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Issued By: [FERC] OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION
Filed Date: 3/1/2013
Accession No: 20130301-3009
Description: Notice of revised schedule for environmental review of the Downeast LNG Project re Downeast LNG, Inc et al under CP07-52 et al.

Summary: FERC will soon issue its revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), and has scheduled the release of its Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
Issuance of Notice of Availability of the Final EIS — 2013 Jul 19
90-day Federal Authorization Decision Deadline — 2013 Oct 17

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Filed By: Save Passamaquoddy Bay
Filed Date: 3/5/2013
Accession No: 20130305-5024
Description: Canaport LNG book value, comment of Save Passamaquoddy Bay under CP07-52, et. al.

Summary: Canaport LNG's 75% owner Repsol has reduced the book value of Canaport by $1.3 billion, due to Canaport's poor performance. Canaport LNG has failed to meet its contract obligations and failed to sell to Royal Dutch Shell in Shell's buyout of the rest of Repsol's world LNG assets, due to the vast ocean of domestic natural gas in the US.

Canaport's dramatic decline impeaches Downeast LNG's purpose and need.

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Filed By: [Dr. James Venart] Save Passamaquoddy Bay Canada Inc.
Filed Date: 3/12/2013
Accession No: 20130312-5030
Description: Comment J E S Venart PEng, on "Recommended Parameters for Solid Flame Models for Land Based Liquefied Natural Gas Spills," on behalf of of Save Passamaquoddy Bay Canada Inc. under AD13-4, et. al.

Summary: Dr. James Venart documents the numerous failings used by FERC and Downeast LNG in vetting thermal radiation from an LNG fire at the terminal and pier. Dr. Venart demonstrates that Downeast LNG's terminal site is too small to contain the thermal radiation from an LNG fire as required by regulation.

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Filed By: Save Passamaquoddy Bay
Filed Date: 3/21/2013
Accession No: 20130321-5053
Description: Innocent Passage comment of Save Passamaquoddy Bay under CP07-52, et. al.

Summary: Save Passamaquoddy Bay demonstrates that the US Department of State claim of right of innocent passage under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) through Canadian waters to the proposed Downeast LNG terminal (and the now-defunct Quoddy Bay LNG and Calais LNG terminals) is fraudulent. Additionally, FERC and the US Coast Guard, instead of blowing the whistle on the Department of State, have been complicit in the fraud.

Save Passamaquoddy Bay suggests that the State Department withdraw its opinion, and demands that FERC dismiss Downeast LNG's applications.

NOTE: This comment has been revised due to three errors. See the March 25 comment, Accession No. 20130325-5031 for the revised version.

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Filed By: Save Passamaquoddy Bay
Filed Date: 3/22/2013
Accession No: 20130322-5154
Description: Name correction to 2013 Mar 21 comment re Innocent Passage, Accession No. 20130321-5053, by Save Passamaquoddy Bay under CP07-52, et al.

Summary: Save Passamaquoddy Bay's Mar 21 comment (Accession No. 20130321-5053) erred in the name of the US Coast Guard Chier of International and Maritime Law. The correct name and new rank are: RADM Charles Michel. (We had mistakenly referred to him as "CAPT. Stephen Michel." He was a US Coast Guard Captain when he made the referenced statement, but is now a Rear Admiral.)

RADM Michel admitted that the US has no standing in international court regarding innocent passage since the US is not a party to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); thus, the US Department of State claim of innocent passage rights under UNCLOS are indefensible.

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Filed By: Save Passamaquoddy Bay
Filed Date: 3/25/2013
Accession No: 20130325-5031
Description: Revised Innocent Passage comment of Save Passamaquoddy Bay under CP07-52, et al.

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Summary: This is a revision of Save Passamaquoddy Bay's March 21 comment, Accession No. 20130321-5053...

• Correcting the first name, and providing the new rank, of US Coast Guard RADM Charles Michel (who publicly indicated that the US Department of State's claim of UNCLOS innocent passage to Passamaquoddy Bay LNG import terminals has no legal standing in any international court);
   
• Providing the correct date (2005 Jun 1) that the Bureau of Indian Affairs fraudulently approved the ground lease between Pleasant Point Tribal Government and Quoddy Bay LNG; and
   
• Correcting the spelling of then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's first name.

Save Passamaquoddy Bay demonstrates that the US Department of State claim of right of innocent passage under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) through Canadian waters to the proposed Downeast LNG terminal (and the now-defunct Quoddy Bay LNG and Calais LNG terminals) is fraudulent. Additionally, FERC and the US Coast Guard, instead of blowing the whistle on the Department of State, have been complicit in the fraud.

Save Passamaquoddy Bay suggests that the State Department withdraw its opinion, and demands that FERC dismiss Downeast LNG's applications.

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Issued By: SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION, FERC
Filed Date: 3/28/2013
Accession No: 20130328-3001
Description: Notice of availability of the supplemental draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Downeast LNG Project under CP07-52 et al.

Summary: FERC announces it has released the Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Revised DEIS) for Downeast LNG.

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Filed By: SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION, FERC
Filed Date: 3/28/2013
Accession No: 20130328-3001
Description: Notice of availability of the supplemental draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Downeast LNG Project under CP07-52 et al.

Summary: This is an erroneous duplicate filing of the previous above filing.

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Issued By: [FERC] ENERGY PROJECTS, OFFICE OF
Filed Date: 3/28/2013
Accession No: 20130328-4001
Description: Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement re the Downeast LNG Project under CP07-52 et al: March 2013.

Summary: USE THE DOCUMENT IN THE NEXT COMMENT, rather than this one.
The current comment contains some erroneously duplicated pages.

This is the Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Revised DEIS). The Comment Period ends on 2013 May 20.
 
Anyone planning on commenting on the DEIS, please contact us, first — (207)853-2922.

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Issued By: [FERC] ENERGY PROJECTS, OFFICE OF
Filed Date: 3/28/2013
Accession No: 20130328-4005
Description: Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement re the Downeast LNG Project under CP07-52 et al: March 2013. (This filing replaces 20130328-4001.)

Summary: THIS IS A CORRECTED VERSION FROM THE ONE IMMEDIATELY ABOVE.
This version deletes some erroneously duplicated pages.

This is the Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Revised DEIS). The Comment Period ends on 2013 May 20.
 
Anyone planning on commenting on the DEIS, please contact us, first — (207)853-2922.

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