ELR Citation: ELR 20130
No(s). A125618 (Cal. App. 1st Dist. Apr 26, 2010)

The D.C. Circuit denied a petition to review FERC's approval of a construction project that would allow a natural gas importer to import greater quantities of liquefied natural gas and distribute it in gaseous form. The petitioner, a utility, argued that higher volumes of regasified liquefied natural gas would pass through its piping system as a result of the expansion, which in turn would pose an increased risk of unsafe natural gas leakage. But by imposing a post-expansion limit on the project that matched the pre-expansion limit, FERC satisfactorily ensured that the expansion will not result in an increased risk of unsafe natural gas leakage.

[A prior decision in this litigation can be found at 39 ELR 20126.]