FERC critics set up installation to draw support for Hill hearings, NGA reform

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Critics of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s infrastructurereviews for a third year in a row staged an event in Washington tocoincide with lobbying days designed to urge Congress to holdhearings into abuses they contend occur in the commission’s naturalgas pipeline permitting program.The action last week entailed a 50-foot wide installation ofinterconnected tubes on the National Mall in front of the USCapitol, along with visits to lawmakers’ offices. It comes as FERChas authorized 85.9 Bcf/d in new pipeline capacity from 2014 to2018, partly driven by expanding shale gas production seeking apath to market.