FERC Approves Important Utica-to-Gulf Coast Pipeline Reversal

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approvedLast October MDN told you about an exciting project from Boardwalk Pipeline Partners' Texas Gas Transmission pipeline that will reverse the flow from the Louisiana Gulf Coast all the way to Ohio (see Texas Gas Seeks to Reverse Flow of Pipeline from OH to LA). The $110 million project, called the Ohio-Louisiana Access Project, would turn Texas Gas Transmission's pipeline bidirectional and will not involve any new pipeline construction. It will provide an important new way for Utica and Marcellus drillers to get their gas to markets in the Midwest, South, and even to other countries via exports of LNG. As is typical, anti-fossil fuelers flooded the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) with negative comments about the project because it will encouraging more fracking. Undeterred, FERC approved the project last week, responding to antis (as they have before) by telling them FERC's charter does not allow it to consider the source of gas or "climate change" or any of the other cockamamie things antis are worry about. FERC decides on projects based on how a project will affect the people and environment where the project gets built...

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