Comments on: Federal Courts to Decide Whether Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a Boon-Doggle https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2020/06/25/federal-courts-to-decide-whether-atlantic-coast-pipeline-is-a-boon-doggle/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nelson Friends https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2020/06/25/federal-courts-to-decide-whether-atlantic-coast-pipeline-is-a-boon-doggle/#comment-303620 Nelson Friends Sun, 05 Jul 2020 11:26:52 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=33051#comment-303620 <strong>Friends of Nelson, Nelson County, VA, where I-64 crosses the Appalachian Trail & Blue Ridge Parkway, July 2, 2020</strong> Good to see everyone – — Senators Creigh Deeds, John Bell, Jennifer Boysko, John Edwards, Ghazala Hashmi; Delegates Betsy Carr, Patrick Hope, Elizabeth Guzman, Chris Hurst, Mark Keam, Ken Plum, Sam Rasoul, Danica Roem, Kathy Tran – who signed on to the following letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), urging that it “deny any requests from Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC, for permission to cut trees, clear land, or install pipe in the Commonwealth” and “deny anextension of the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline [ACP]” Presumably, many more Senators and Delegates also oppose the ACP (e.g., see this list here)…perhaps their names might be added to the letter? Read more here: https://bluevirginia.us/2020/07/15-virginia-state-senators-delegates-urge-ferc-not-to-let-dominion-continue-with-its-atlantic-coast-pipeline-boondoggle Friends of Nelson, Nelson County, VA, where I-64 crosses the Appalachian Trail & Blue Ridge Parkway, July 2, 2020

Good to see everyone – —

Senators Creigh Deeds, John Bell, Jennifer Boysko, John Edwards, Ghazala Hashmi; Delegates Betsy Carr, Patrick Hope, Elizabeth Guzman, Chris Hurst, Mark Keam, Ken Plum, Sam Rasoul, Danica Roem, Kathy Tran – who signed on to the following letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), urging that it “deny any requests from Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC, for permission to cut trees, clear land, or install pipe in the Commonwealth” and “deny anextension of the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline [ACP]”

Presumably, many more Senators and Delegates also oppose the ACP (e.g., see this list here)…perhaps their names might be added to the letter?

Read more here:

https://bluevirginia.us/2020/07/15-virginia-state-senators-delegates-urge-ferc-not-to-let-dominion-continue-with-its-atlantic-coast-pipeline-boondoggle

]]> By: Mary Wildfire https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2020/06/25/federal-courts-to-decide-whether-atlantic-coast-pipeline-is-a-boon-doggle/#comment-300729 Mary Wildfire Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:00:20 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=33051#comment-300729 This makes me angry. I was not aware that the Fourth Circuit had already decided that it doesn't matter whether precedent agreements are with affiliates, and that they alone prove need. Of course the gas industry, Dominion, and their captured agency FERC will make such arguments--but that the courts sided with them is depressing. There is an element not mentioned here: the assumption is that if a company, affiliated or not, is locked into a contract to buy the gas that must mean there is a need for it or they'd have to renege on the contract (if that happens, does Dominion have to give back that 15% profit?), but perhaps the real market they're counting on is overseas. They don't publicly discuss export, but FERC has stated that it doesn't matter if the "public need" is foreign, that can still justify eminent domain seizure of Americans' property. And export intentions can be disguised by a shell game, in which existing deliveries of gas can be rerouted to the export terminal, this creating domestic "need" for the gas delivered by the new pipeline. I've read that markets in Europe and Asia have gone soft as well, but these guys I think are gamblers--I think they know they've rigged the rules so that it's only the public that takes risks. This makes me angry. I was not aware that the Fourth Circuit had already decided that it doesn’t matter whether precedent agreements are with affiliates, and that they alone prove need. Of course the gas industry, Dominion, and their captured agency FERC will make such arguments–but that the courts sided with them is depressing. There is an element not mentioned here: the assumption is that if a company, affiliated or not, is locked into a contract to buy the gas that must mean there is a need for it or they’d have to renege on the contract (if that happens, does Dominion have to give back that 15% profit?), but perhaps the real market they’re counting on is overseas. They don’t publicly discuss export, but FERC has stated that it doesn’t matter if the “public need” is foreign, that can still justify eminent domain seizure of Americans’ property. And export intentions can be disguised by a shell game, in which existing deliveries of gas can be rerouted to the export terminal, this creating domestic “need” for the gas delivered by the new pipeline. I’ve read that markets in Europe and Asia have gone soft as well, but these guys I think are gamblers–I think they know they’ve rigged the rules so that it’s only the public that takes risks.

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