Court Pans FERCs Speed on Eminent Domain Reviews

摘要

A key federal appeals court last week criticized the speed at which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reviews landowner challenges to eminent domain decisions during gas pipeline construction — a sign that project developers could face more scrutiny in the future. The hearing, in which the full bench of 11 judges for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit are reviewing an appellate ruling over FERC's approval of the Atlantic Sunrise gas pipeline, seemed to reveal significant concerns about FERC's use of tolling orders that have long been controversial.