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FERC Approves East Tenn. NatGas System Alignment in NC, TN, VA

Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved an Enbridge project to update its East Tennessee Natural Gas (ETNG) pipeline system. The project is referred to as the ETNG System Alignment Program Project, a project that heretofore was not on our radar screen. ETNG plans to add two electric compressor stations and pipeline capacity in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. In what has become a typical pattern, FERC Chairman Willie Phillips (Democrat) and Commissioner Mark Christie (Republican) voted to approve the project. Radicalized Commissioner Allison Clements (Democrat, former NRDC attorney) voted against approving the project.
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Sale of East Ohio Gas Co. from Dominion to Enbridge Now Complete

Last September, Dominion Energy and Enbridge co-announced that Dominion had agreed to sell the company’s remaining natural gas local distribution companies (LDCs) that Dominion owns to Enbridge for $14.0 billion, which includes $9.4 billion in cash plus the assumption of debt (see Dominion Energy Loses Mind – Sells Remaining LDC NatGas Businesses). The deal includes three LDCs — The East Ohio Gas Company, Public Service Company of North Carolina, and Questar Gas Company (along with Wexpro Company). The first of the three, the East Ohio Gas Company, officially changed hands yesterday. Of the $14 billion being spent for all three, East Ohio Gas represents $6.6 billion — roughly half.
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Radicals DEMAND Northeast Governors Oppose Enbridge Pipe Project

The Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline (owned by Enbridge) transports up to 3.09 Bcf/d through 1,131 miles of pipeline. Algonquin connects to Texas Eastern Transmission (TETCO), Millennium Pipeline, and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline and supplies New England with critically needed natural gas supplies for power generation and consumer use. As we told you in September, Enbridge conducted an open season to gauge interest in expanding Algonquin’s capacity to flow more gas into New England — mainly from the Marcellus/Utica — called Project Maple (see Enbridge Open Season to Expand Algonquin Pipe in New England). A coalition of “90 environmental organizations” (many of them one- or two-person operations) sent letters to the governors of the New England states and New York State last week demanding (they always demand) that the governors publicly oppose Project Maple.
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Person County, NC Votes to Approve Dominion LNG Storage Facility

Dominion Energy wants to build a liquified natural gas (LNG) storage facility in Person County, North Carolina, to enhance natural gas service reliability for residential and business customers in the growing region (see NC Residents Freak Out Over Proposed Dominion LNG Storage Tank). Dominion studied several potential sites and collected a boatload of data during the site selection process, including but not limited to construction feasibility, minimizing landowner impacts, connection to Dominion’s existing natural gas system, and avoiding environmentally sensitive areas. Ultimately, Dominion selected a site in the southeast corner of Person County. Mainstream media is doing its best to scare local residents, hoping to block the project. However, over the objections of a rowdy crowd, county commissioners voted Monday to approve a rezoning request from Dominion for the project.
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Big Green’s Small Protest Against Enbridge Project Maple in New York

This map shows where Enbridge plans to expand gas pipeline capacity on the Algonquin pipeline. (click for larger version)

The Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline (owned by Enbridge) transports up to 3.09 Bcf/d through 1,131 miles of pipeline. Algonquin connects to Texas Eastern Transmission (TETCO), Millennium Pipeline, and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline and supplies New England with critically needed natural gas supplies for power generation and consumer use. As we told you in September, Enbridge is currently conducting an open season to gauge interest in expanding Algonquin’s capacity to flow more gas into New England — mainly from the Marcellus/Utica — called Project Maple (see Enbridge Open Season to Expand Algonquin Pipe in New England). Yesterday a small group of global warming nutters rallied outside the now-shuttered Indian Point nuclear plant in Buchanan to protest Project Maple.
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New England Desperately Needs Enbridge’s Algonquin Pipe Expansion

The Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline (owned by Enbridge) transports up to 3.09 Bcf/d through 1,131 miles of pipeline. Algonquin connects to Texas Eastern Transmission (TETCO), Millennium Pipeline, and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline and supplies New England with critically needed natural gas supplies for power generation and consumer use. As we told you two weeks ago, Enbridge is conducting an open season to gauge interest in expanding Algonquin’s capacity to flow more gas into New England — mainly from the Marcellus/Utica — called Project Maple (see Enbridge Open Season to Expand Algonquin Pipe in New England). Let’s take a closer look at how New England would benefit from this pipeline’s expansion and the prospects of whether or not it can actually happen.
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Open Season for New Capacity at Enbridge’s Dawn Parkway System

The Enbridge Gas Dawn Parkway System is one of the most robust pipeline systems in North America and provides for the movement of natural gas from Enbridge Gas’s Dawn Hub located near Sarnia, Ontario, to the Greater Toronto Area, where it interconnects with other downstream pipelines serving eastern Canadian and northeast U.S. markets. Marcellus/Utica molecules help feed the Dawn Hub via the Rover and NEXUS pipelines. Enbridge Gas is holding a new capacity open season for an extra 300 MMcf/d (million cubic feet per day) of natural gas along the Dawn Parkway System. Let’s move more M-U molecules!
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Enbridge Pipe to Feed TVA Plant in Tenn. Advances with FERC EIS

Ridgeline map (click for larger version)

Enbridge has plans to build a natural gas pipeline across Tennessee to get gas to one of Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) planned gas-fired power plants (see Enbridge Gets Serious About New TN Pipe to Feed TVA Power Plant). Enbridge’s Ridgeline Expansion Project is an expansion of the company’s existing East Tennessee Natural Gas (ETNG) system. Ridgeline will feed 300 MMcf/d of natural gas to a TVA gas plant currently under consideration to replace the Kingston Fossil Plant (a coal-fired plant). Ridgeline includes the installation of approximately 110 miles of 30-inch pipeline looping, 4 miles of 30-inch-diameter header pipeline, an approximately 8-mile 24-inch lateral, and one electric-powered compressor station. Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced it would prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Ridgeline project.
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Enbridge Open Season to Expand Algonquin Pipe in New England

The Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline (owned by Enbridge) transports up to 3.09 Bcf/d through 1,131 miles of pipeline. Algonquin connects to Texas Eastern Transmission (TETCO), Millennium Pipeline, and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline and supplies New England with critically needed natural gas supplies for power generation and consumer use. Enbridge is conducting an open season to gauge interest in expanding Algonquin’s capacity to flow more gas into New England–mainly from the Marcellus/Utica–called Project Maple.
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Former Philly Mayor & Fla. Congressman (Dems) Join NatGas Group

Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future is a 501(c)(4) advocacy group launched in August 2020 to promote natural gas as the best solution to support so-called renewable energy and the best solution to lower greenhouse gas emissions. The leftist rag, The Guardian, reported that Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future has budgeted over $10 million for its advocacy efforts. The efforts include convincing younger, liberal, and non-white audiences that natural gas is clean and green. Is it working? Last year, the group recruited former U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (Democrat from Louisiana) and earlier this year recruited former Congressman Tim Ryan (Democrat from Ohio) to sit on the group’s “leadership council.” Natural Allies has just recruited two more Democrats as reps–former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and former Florida Congressman Kendrick Meek (both African Americans). Is this Democrats-for-hire? Or do all four of these people really believe in a future with natural gas energy?
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Dominion Energy Loses Mind – Sells Remaining LDC NatGas Businesses

Yesterday, Dominion Energy and Enbridge co-announced that Dominion has agreed to sell what we think (not 100% sure) are the remaining natural gas local distribution companies (LDCs) that Dominion owns to Enbridge for $14.0 billion, which includes $9.4 billion in cash plus the assumption of debt. The deal includes three LDCs–The East Ohio Gas Company, Public Service Company of North Carolina, and Questar Gas Company (along with Wexpro Company). The three LDCs serve about 3 million homes and businesses in Ohio, North Carolina, Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho and include 78,000 miles of natural gas distribution, transmission, gathering, and storage pipelines and more than 62 Bcf of working underground and LNG storage capacity. Dominion wants to shed its natgas businesses and focus solely on electrifying everything.
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DC Circuit Dismisses Case Against Operational Weymouth Compressor

The Weymouth compressor station, online and operating safely since early 2021, was the final piece of the $452 million Atlantic Bridge expansion project that was years in the making. Built by Enbridge, the Weymouth compressor can pump an extra 132,705 Dt/d (132.7 million cubic feet per day) of Marcellus gas through Enbridge’s Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline from receipt points in New York and New Jersey. The gas is pushed through the mainline all the way to Maine and (potentially) Nova Scotia, Canada. The radical environmental left (which hates all fossil fuels) has been fighting this compressor station for years. On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit) dismissed two remaining petitions against the project.
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Enbridge Open Season for New Capacity from Dawn Hub to Toronto

Canadian-based Enbridge operates, among many other assets, the Dawn Hub in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in southwestern Ontario, Dawn, with 288 Bcf (billion cubic feet) of gas storage, provides shippers with direct access to North America’s major supply basins–including the Utica and the Marcellus. The Dawn Hub is connected to a myriad of pipelines, including Rover and NEXUS (from the M-U region). The new news is that Enbridge has just launched an open season to expand capacity along the pipeline that runs from Dawn to both the Kirkwall and Parkway hubs near Toronto.
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Blue Ammonia Plant on Gulf Coast Announced – Fed by TETCO Pipe

In our daily perusal of press releases, we spotted an announcement from Yara and Enbridge about a joint venture to build a “world scale” low-carbon blue ammonia project along the Gulf Coast near Corpus Christi, Texas. We thought, “Hmmm, that’s interesting.” But as we read the announcement, our eyes got wide when they landed on this statement: “Enbridge’s Texas Eastern Transmission Pipeline is expected to provide the transportation service for feed gas that will be used for the production process.” Whoa! Now that’s REALLY interesting! We’ll tell you why…
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Weymouth Compressor Plans NatGas Release for Pipe Maintenance

Just over one year ago, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) voted to keep the Weymouth compressor, the final piece of the $452 million Atlantic Bridge expansion project that was years in the making, up and running (see Victory! FERC Won’t Shut Down Weymouth, MA Compressor Station). Since that time, it’s been pretty quiet. Enbridge, the owner of the pipeline and compressor, needs to do some maintenance and will release a puff of natural gas from the station.
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FERC Chair Phillips Surprises, Moves to Quickly Advance 3 Gas Pipes

Willie Phillips

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under the chairmanship of Richard “Dick” Glick moved like molasses when it came to approving new pipeline projects. Glick’s favorite move was to require a full environmental impact statement (EIS) for even small projects that do nothing more than add more compressors or looping pipe (laid next to existing pipe). Glick is now gone, thanks to Sen. Joe Manchin. Willie Phillips is the Acting Chairman. In a surprise move, Phillips has converted what would have been full EISs for three small but important pipeline projects (all of them affecting the Marcellus/Utica) into much faster and less onerous environmental assessments (EAs), shaving a full nine months off the time it takes to approve these projects.
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