Shippers protest Trailblazer’s informal pipe replacement project, seek formal FERC review

摘要

Shippers are protesting Trailblazer Pipeline’s plan to replace an 8-milernsection of its pipeline this fall, arguing that the pipeline must gornthrough FERC’s formal application process before it pursues the $18rnmillion project.rnTrailblazer in July provided notice (CP16-477) of the project underrnSection 2.55(b) of FERC’s regulations, which governs replacementrnfacilities. The pipeline said the project is needed to replace arnsegment of pipe in Kearney and Adams counties, Nebraska, that hasrnor will become physically deteriorated. Trailblazer said it plans tornstart work in September and that all work will be conducted on itsrnexisting right-of-way.