ELR Citation: ELR 20129
No(s). 09-1100 (D.C. Cir. Apr 27, 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.