Filed By: Save Passamaquoddy Bay
Filed Date: 10/2/2014
Accession No: 20141002-5004
Description: Petition to dismiss, motion of Save Passamaquoddy Bay under PF14-19, et al.
Information: FILE LIST

Summary: Downeast LNG has taken no action in over one week to correct its official Resource Report 1 filing to the docket. In that filing, Downeast LNG reported it intends to regasify a puny 100 standard cubic feet per day of LNG to natural gas — less volume than 5'x5'x5'. Since the applicant has not filed a correction, the 100 standard cubic feet per day must be the correct intended volume.

Since the volume of regasified LNG is of insignificant value to US natural gas consumers, Downeast LNG is violating the public interest. Therefore, Save Passamaquoddy Bay petitions FERC to summarily dismiss the Downeast LNG Import Project (Docket No. CP07-52).

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Issued By: SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION, FERC
Filed Date: 10/3/2014
Accession No: 20141003-3026
Description: Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Planned Downeast LNG Import-Export Project, Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, and Notice of Public Scoping Meeting re Downeast Liquefaction, LLC under PF14-19.
Information: FILE LIST

Summary: Announcing Scoping period (ending November 3), Scoping Public Meeting (October 22, at Robbinston School), and plan to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), to augment the existing EIS.

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Filed By: Save Passamaquoddy Bay
Filed Date: 10/14/2014
Accession No: 20141014-5108
Description: FERC staff filing propriety, comment of Save Passamaquoddy Bay under PF14-19, et al.
Information: FILE LIST

Summary: Save Passamaquoddy Bay points to FERC's conflict of interest in acting as proxy for Downeast LNG.

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Filed By: Downeast Liquefaction, LLC Downeast LNG, Inc. Downeast Pipeline, LLC
Filed Date: 10/14/2014
Accession No: 20141014-5151
Description: Downeast Liquefaction, LLC, et. al. submits its Monthly Pre-Filing Status Report No. 2 for the period of September 11, 2014 - October 10, 2014, under PF14-19.
Information: FILE LIST

Summary: Downeast LNG lists project activities, including surveys, stakeholder communications, and agency meetings.

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Filed By: Downeast Liquefaction, LLC Downeast Pipeline, LLC Downeast LNG, Inc.
Filed Date: 10/15/2014
Accession No: 20141015-5099
Description: Downeast Liquefaction, LLC, et. al. correspondence under PF14-19
Information: FILE LIST

Summary: Downeast LNG announces it is delaying filing its Resource Reports until after the Scoping Period, indicating it will file them in the middle of November.

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Issued By: ENERGY PROJECTS, OFFICE OF [FERC]
Filed Date: 10/17/2014
Accession No: 20141017-4002
Description: Biweekly Conference Call - dated 9/29/14 re the Downeast LNG Export Project under PF14-19.
Information: FILE LIST

Summary: Summary of Bi-Weekly Conference Call of 2014 Sep 29 among FERC, Downeast Liquefaction, and Tetra Tech. Draft Resource Report 13 is anticipated to be filed late 2014 or early 2015. The Waterway Suitability Assessment is being updated as per Coast Guard request. FERC is working on completing Notice of Intent to Prepare Environmental Impact Statement (liquefaction and export supplement to existing import EIS).

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Filed By: Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Filed Date: 10/27/2014
Accession No: 20141027-5075
Description: Comment of Sabin Center for Climate Change Law under PF14-19.
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Summary: The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires Downeast LNG and FERC to account for the impact of sea level rise on the proposed Downeast LNG terminal. The State of Maine includes climate-change concerns re impacts on drinking water, including saltwater impingement into freshwater aquifers.

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Issued By: SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION, FERC
Filed Date: 10/29/2014
Accession No: 20141029-3008
Description: Supplemental Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Planned Downeast LNG Import-Export Project and Request for Comments on environmental issues re Downeast Liquefaction, LLC under PF14-19.
Information: FILE LIST

Summary: Since FERC failed to mail out its Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS — as Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3-Nation Alliance researcher and webmaster discovered and reported to FERC personnel present at the FERC Scoping Hearing in Robbinston on October 22 — FERC has extended the Scoping Period to end on December 1, rather than the original ending date of November 3.
 
Note that the Scoping Period in FERC proceedings is actually a "ghost" deadline, since FERC will continue to receive and consider scoping-related comments throughout the permitting process. But, as experience has shown, FERC's "consideration" of such comments is less than professional.

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Issued By: ENERGY PROJECTS, OFFICE OF [FERC]
Filed Date: 10/29/2014
Accession No: 20141029-4008
Description: Bi-Weekly conference call dated 10/15/14 re the Downeast LNG Export Project under PF14-19.
Information: FILE LIST

Summary: Oct 15 Bi-Weekly Conference Call discussion:

• Have completed most new environmental studies.
• Starting additional site geotechnical studies.
• Coordinating engineering design with environmental permit requirements.
• Met with USCG and Eastport Pilots regarding annual update of WSA.
• Draft Environmental Resource Reports in development.

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Issued By: ENERGY PROJECTS, OFFICE OF [FERC]
Filed Date: 10/29/2014
Accession No: 20141029-4009
Description: Bi-Weekly conference call dated 10/27/14 re the Downeast LNG Export Project under PF14-19.
Information: FILE LIST

Summary: Oct 27 Bi-Weekly Conference Call discussion:

• Public scoping meeting was held October 22, 2014, in Robbinston, ME.
• FERC will issue a Supplemental Notice of Intent (NOI) since the October 3, 2014 NOI was not mailed to the environmental mailing list.
• Downeast is expected to submit draft environmental Resource Reports in mid-November.

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