Glick defends FERC power to tweak pipeline project conditions after authorization

摘要

Responding to concerns that the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission may threaten infrastructure development, ChairmanRichard Glick insisted that the commission indeed has authority to addconditions and mitigation measures for natural gas projects afterissuance of the underlying certificate order.His reasoning, laid out in a April 12 letter to Senate Energy and NaturalResources Committee Ranking Member John Barrasso, Republican-Wyoming, came as a group of former commissioners echoed gas industrywarnings that FERC was threatening infrastructure development byundermining the finality of its approvals for multimillion-dollar projects.