Big Green Challenges Small Florida LNG Export Facility in Fed Court
Last April, MDN told you about Nopetro LNG’s plans to construct and operate as many as three liquefaction trains in Port St. Joe, Florida, that will liquefy up to 3.86 billion cubic feet per year of natural gas for export and delivery to markets in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America (see Small Florida LNG Export Facility NOT Subject to FERC Regulation). That’s 3.86 Bcf for an entire year, not per day. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) said it does not have jurisdictional authority over such a tiny facility. Along came Big Green (i.e. Public Citizen) to sue FERC, asking the court to force the agency to step up and conduct a full review of the facility (which would kill it).
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Energy in Depth (EID) is publishing a series that exposes the activist group Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) and its extensive actions behind the scenes in New Jersey municipalities to recruit, support, and initiate climate litigation. CCI has tried, according to emails obtained by EID, to remain hidden in the background. EID is turning a bright spotlight on their unethical (and borderline illegal) activities in manipulating New Jersey officials, encouraging (goading) them to sue oil and gas companies using public funds.
The nightmare we can’t wake up from, called New York State, keeps getting darker and worse. In January, Hochul proposed banning the sale of all new natural gas appliances across the state, along with an outright ban on hooking up new homes and businesses to gas, by 2030 (see 
Is Kamala Harris the dumbest Vice President of the United States…ever? No. We think that dubious distinction goes to her boss, Joe Biden, when he was VP under Lord Obama. But she ranks right up there near Biden as the dumbest. Do you ever listen to any of her talks? Or her cackling laugh? Talk about nails on a chalkboard! One of cackling Kamala’s latest pronouncements is that there is a “mental health crisis” because of the climate. This time we tend to agree with her. There IS a mental health crisis–abject fear and panic–because of people like Harris screaming lies that the planet is about to end unless we dump fossil energy.
OTHER U.S. REGIONS: California win in bid to curb oil profits; Republican lawmakers pan offshore wind plans at NJ event; NATIONAL: Pimco sees banking turmoil as threat to USA oil, gas production; Serial gas stove user Stacey Abrams joins group that wants to ban them; INTERNATIONAL: Carbon-sucking tech to use more energy than all homes; Russia becomes China’s biggest oil supplier; U.S. company seeks $20B from Canada over nixed LNG project.
Back in January, three Marcellus/Utica companies–Chesapeake Energy, EQT, and Equitrans Midstream–launched what the three call the Appalachian Methane Initiative (AMI), a coalition committed to further enhancing methane monitoring throughout the Appalachia Basin, with an aim to reduce methane emissions throughout the region (see 
MiQ, a certification authority that monitors for methane (and other) emissions and issues responsible gas certifications, announced today it has launched the world’s first certification to cover all GHGs (greenhouse gases) from the LNG supply chain. LNG buyers are now able to compare exporters and choose lower emissions cargoes for the first time–ever. MiQ’s new framework tracks 100% of methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide emissions from every segment of the LNG supply chain–including production, gathering and boosting, processing, pipeline, liquefaction, shipping, and regasification.
If leftists can redefine what is and what is not “waters of the United States” (WOTUS), they can pretty much control you and what you can and can’t do with your own private property. WOTUS, according to the Bidenistas, is pretty much anything down to mud puddles, as they proposed earlier this year (see 
The United Nations’ (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published an updated climate change (global warming) report yesterday. It is the hardest of hard-core dictatorial screeds we’ve seen yet out of the UN, an agency that desires to rule the world. The out-of-control UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said in releasing the report that “Humanity is on thin ice – and that ice is melting fast. Our world needs climate action on all fronts – everything, everywhere, all at once.” Cute–invoking the name of this year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture. Guterres’ preferred solution? “Ceasing all licensing or funding of new oil and gas,” and “stopping any expansion of existing oil and gas reserves.” You read that right. No more new drilling anywhere for fossil fuels, if the UN gets its way.
We have to wonder, are we witnessing the end of modern society and a full regression back to the Stone Age? Two lawyers, one from Public Citizen’s climate program and the other a professor at George Washington University Law School, have written a paper that will be published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review that claims if there’s a NATURAL disaster, like a flood or hurricane or big snowstorm, and if people die in that event, governments and prosecutors can sue Big Oil, holding Big Oil criminally negligent for homicide. No, this is not a joke.