Ferc Denies California Air District Call To Stay North Baja Pipeline Expansion

摘要

FERC on Thursday denied rehearing for a North Baja Pipeline certificate and shed more light on its decision to forego a broad assessment of air quality issues tied to liquefied natural gas shipments to Southern California.rnThe South Coast Air Quality Management District, the air pollution control agency for Orange County and urban portions of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, asked FERC in November to issue an emergency stay of the October 2 certificate and presidential permit (IF, 8 Oct, 17). The agency also requested rehearing.rnBut FERC denied rehearing and the motion for a limited stay of the certificate, calling "tenuous and speculative" the notion that there's a link between the North Baja project and air quality due to the consumption of regasified LNG.