Maritimes Wins Expansion of Cross-Border Natural Gas Plow Authorizations That Allow Exports as Well as Imports

摘要

On 7/21/09 FERC granted the April 8 request of Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, LLC (CP96-810) for an amended Presidential Permit and Natural Gas Act (NGA) section 3 authorization in order to utilize its existing cross-border facilities to export, as well as import, natural gas between the U.S. and Canada. Maritimes, along with its Canadian pipeline affiliate, Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LP (Maritimes-Canada), operates a high-pressure gas delivery system that transports gas in international and interstate commerce from a point near Goldboro, Nova Scotia to the Canadian-U.S. border and through the northeastern states of Maine and New Hampshire, with one terminus in Dracut, Mass. and another in Beverly, Mass.