Filed By: Downeast LNG, Inc.
Downeast LNG LP
Filed Date: 5/2/2012
Accession No: 20120502-5120
Description: Downeast LNG, Inc., et. al. SIGTTO letter in response to SPB under CP07-52, et. al.

Summary: Downeast LNG president Dean Girdis submits a generic letter from SIGTTO (Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators) indicating that SIGTTO is a private organization "whose sole aim is to promote safety in the liquefied gas transport and storage industry," and that prepares and publishes guidelines intended to guide its "members who are knowlegeable in the field of liquefied gas transport and storage." The letter also indicates that SIGTTO has no regulatory authority, and so its published guidelines are not "mandatory regulations" or "laws." Girdis mentions that Save Passamaquoddy Bay has brought up SIGTTO's terminal siting best safe practices several times in docket filings.

Webmaster's comment: Although Save Passamaquoddy Bay has never referred to SIGTTO as laws or regulations, Dean Girdis, himself, has. He did so in his comments in the 2006 Mar 9 Bangor Daily News article, "Regulators advance review process for LNG proposal." In that same article he falsely claimed that SIGTTO best practices do not apply to terminals.

Girdis revealed his lack of "knowledgeability" about his own industry's best safe practices when he selected is proposed terminal site.

Apparently, Save Passamaquoddy Bay has laid bare a Downeast LNG nerve.

See LNG Terminal Siting Standards Organization for more on SIGTTO and how Downeast LNG does not comply with its own industry's safety advice. Also, see Save Passamaquoddy Bay's extensive comment filing to the FERC prefiling process illustrating Downeast LNG's numerous SIGTTO best practices violations.

Information: FILE LIST

Filed By: Save Passamaquoddy Bay
Filed Date: 5/4/2012
Accession No: 20120504-5180
Description: Save Passamaquoddy Bay comments on Downeast LNG's May 2 filing regarding SIGTTO terminal siting best safe practices under CP07-52, et. al.

Summary: Save Passamaquoddy Bay rebuts Downeast LNG's May 2 comment filing regarding the Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators (SIGTTO) terminal siting best practices.

Save Passamaquoddy Bay documents Downeast LNG's ignorance of SIGTTO best practices when the company selected its proposed site. SPB also demonstrates that Downeast LNG is apparently not a member of SIGTTO, and lists the numerous ways Downeast LNG's proposed terminal site and ship transit route are contrary to SIGTTO best safe practices, public safety, and industry safety.

Information: FILE LIST

Filed By: DOWNEAST LNG LP
DOWNEAST PIPELINE, LLC
Filed Date: 5/4/2012
Accession No: 20120504-5182
Description: DOWNEAST LNG LP, et. al. FERC update May 4, 2012 under CP07-52, et al.

Summary: Downeast LNG indicates that by the end of May it will likely submit its latest vapor dispersion Exclusion Zone calculation results to FERC.

Webmaster's comment: FERC required Downeast LNG to recalculate the vapor-gas dispersion Exclusion Zone, even after a newly-approved computer model calculation of that Exclusion Zone had been submitted by the company. Downeast LNG had not done the calculation properly; hence, FERC's requirement to recalculate it.

Information: FILE LIST

Filed By: Downeast LNG, Inc.
Filed Date: 5/23/2012
Accession No: 20120523-5172
Description: Downeast LNG, Inc. under CP07-52, et. al., submits its responses to the January 31, 2012 EIR.

Summary: This filing contains the vapor dispersion Exclusion Zone analysis, dated May 22, conducted by Exponent, Inc. of Natick, Massachusetts. Downeast LNG is proposing to use 20-foot tall Vapor Fences along the entire terminal fence line.

Information: FILE LIST

Filed By: Downeast LNG, Inc.
Filed Date: 5/23/2012
Accession No: 20120523-5173
Description: Downeast LNG, Inc. under CP07-52, et. al., submits its responses to the January 31, 2012 EIR.

Information: FILE LIST [Non-public filing related to the previous filing; attempting to download will result in an error.]

Filed By: Save Passamaquoddy Bay
Filed Date: 5/25/2012
Accession No: 20120525-5040
Description: Save Passamaquoddy Bay rebuts Downeast LNG's 2012 April 24 filing re purpose and need and natural gas availability in New England, under CP07-52-000, et. al.

Summary: Save Passamaquoddy Bay (SPB) impeaches the Downeast LNG (DeLNG) claim that the 2007 week-long Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) hearing was the first step in state permitting when in fact it was the last step — as confirmed by the Maine Assistant Attorney General. Then, Downeast LNG withdrew its state applications. DeLNG has been absent from state permitting now for nearly five years.

SPB also impeaches DeLNG's claim that natural gas pipelines cannot be built or expanded to deliver copious domestic supply to the Boston area.

Information: FILE LIST

Filed By: Downeast LNG, Inc.
Filed Date: 5/30/2012
Accession No: 20120530-5186
Description: Downeast LNG, Inc. under CP07-52, et. al., submits its input and output files for its May 23 EIR Responses.

Summary: The filing consists of the data used in Downeast LNG's vapor dispersion computer modeling. It is filed as proprietary Non-Public, so cannot be seen. Only the cover letter in the link below can be viewed by the public.

Information: FILE LIST

Filed By: Save Passamaquoddy Bay
Filed Date: 5/31/2012
Accession No: 20120531-5041
Description: Save Passamaquoddy Bay provides documentation of Congressman Markey's advocacy for pipeline investment to deliver plentiful domestic natural gas to New England, rather than continued reliance on LNG supplies from overseas, under CP07-52-000, et al.

Information: FILE LIST

Summary:Congressman Markey advocates pipeline investment to deliver plentiful domestic natural gas to New England.