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FERC Reaffirms AES Sparrows Point Project

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reaffirmed its Jan. 15 order authorizing the AES Sparrows Point LNG LLC import terminal near Dundalk, Md., in Baltimore County and the related Mid-Atlantic LLC pipeline project.

The AES terminal would send out gas at a rate of up to 1.5 billion cu ft per day (Bcf/d), which would be transported through the 88-mile Mid-Atlantic pipeline to Eagle, Pa., where the new pipeline would interconnect with several existing interstate pipelines serving customers in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. The commission denied late motions to intervene, requests for a supplemental environmental impact statement and requests for stay because the petitioners raised no new specific issues or facts that had not already been addressed in the previous orders or in FERC staff’s environmental analyses.

The commission voted three-to-one in favor of the project; with FERC chairman Jon Wellinghoff dissenting.