The commission’s effort to get the Southeast Markets Pipelines project back on track with a new draft environmental report faced substantial pushback from environmental groups in comments flowing into the agency last week. Pipeline companies sponsoring the project, by contrast, said FERC had fully satisfied requirements of a recent court order that put certificate approval of the projects in question. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals in August vacated and remanded FERC’s orders on the pipelines, which include the 1.1 Bcf/d, 515-mile Sabal Trail Transmission project, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s Hillabee Expansion and the Florida Southeast Connection. It found the agency provided too little information about the greenhouse gas emissions associated with downstream power plants that the pipelines would feed.
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