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The Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project had the kick off meeting Feb. 17, 2010, in Hartford.
The Greater New Haven Clean Cities Coalition, Inc. (GNHCCC), together with over 30 partner organizations will develop and implement a state-wide, fuel-neutral effort that will deploy 183 alternative fuel vehicles (AFV) through incremental funding and provide fueling capability for 21 additional fleet vehicles and infrastructure necessary to directly support the vehicle deployments as part of the Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project.
Also see this story in the Register Citizen about an announcement from Gov. M. Jodi Rell:
The Governor announced today that Connecticut has moved closer to those goals with the newly released preliminary recommendations from her Electric Vehicles Infrastructure Council that is examining ways the state can accommodate electric vehicles (EVs) through public policy, infrastructure and education.
via Governor Rell announces electric vehicles are closer to coming to Connecticut – The Register Citizen.
Continue reading CTEHxclusive: More alternative fuels to come out of Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project
CHESHIRE — Yankee Gas Services Co. will start work in April on a $60 million expansion of its distribution network that will include a 5.28-mile stretch along Route 68 in town. Officials at the Berlin, Conn., utility outlined their plans for the new pipeline Tuesday for town officials.
via Yankee Gas expansion to start in April – The New Haven Register.
PROVIDENCE — Testifying before a special Senate task force Tuesday, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch called a proposal for a floating liquefied natural gas terminal in Mount Hope Bay ill-conceived.
via Lynch: Floating LNG terminal ill-conceived | projo.com.
PROVIDENCE — Testifying before a special Senate task force Tuesday, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch called a proposal for a floating liquefied natural gas terminal in Mount Hope Bay ill-conceived.
Lynch said the project was developed only in a “knee-jerk reaction” to the demise of a proposed facility on the Fall River waterfront. The floating terminal would threaten public safety in Rhode Island and harm the state’s economy, he said. He specifically referred to the projected high cost for state and local authorities to maintain security around 900-foot tankers traveling up Narragansett and Mount Hope bays to supply the terminal.
via Lynch: Floating LNG terminal ill-conceived | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal.
A $66 million Yankee Gas expansion project remains in its planning stages, but company officials expect the project to be completed in time for the 2011-2012 heating season.
Last week, the Department of Public Utility Control decommissioned a propane facility for Yankee Gas, but the company is still working on its $66 million expansion plan from Waterbury, through Cheshire and into Wallingford, according to Jeff Tilghman, communication specialist with Yankee Gas. The project will build up capacity in the towns for residential and commercial use, and Cheshire could capitalize on the additional flow of natural gas.
via Yankee Gas Expansion Project Eyes 2011 Completion Date | The Cheshire Herald.
(NECN: Peter Howe, on Massachusetts Bay) It’s a crucial — but controversial — energy source New England can’t do without: liquefied natural gas. As controversy rages in Boston about LNG tanker shipments into Boston Harbor, in an NECN exclusive, reporter Peter Howe and videographer Mike Bellwin on Thursday got to be the first journalists aboard a new offshore LNG terminal that keeps fuel deliveries 18 miles offshore.
via Inside Boston’s offshore LNG terminal | NECN Exclusive.
Project at Red Beach to cost up to $1 billion
CALAIS, Maine — Calais LNG has filed a formal application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to construct and operate a natural gas pipeline and import terminal.
The project, estimated to cost $800 million to $1 billion, is proposed for the Red Beach section of Calais, south of the city, on a 330-acre site that features 2,800 feet of shoreline along the deep-water banks of the St. Croix River and Passamaquoddy Bay. Construction is proposed to be completed in 2014.
via Calais LNG files papers for terminal – Bangor Daily News.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is looking to block Yemeni tankers from delivering liquefied natural gas into Boston Harbor next month, The Boston Globe reported Friday.
Menino, who called the deliveries “wrong,” reportedly said Thursday that he is seeking legal assistance to prevent the tankers from entering the harbor — and instead force them to unload away from the city as a security precaution.
via FOXNews.com – Boston Mayor Looks to Block Yemeni Tankers From Entering U.S. Harbor.
MORE: BOSTON — Liquefied natural gas shipments from Yemen scheduled to arrive for the first time in Boston Harbor in February are prompting a heightened review of tanker security.
via Boston Officials Worried About LNG Shipments – Boston News Story – WCVB Boston.
MORE: James Fay is a Professor Emeritus at MIT and a proponent of offshore terminals for LNG tankers. He says natural gas is quite plentiful. There is no reason to bring in tankers from Yemen and blames decades old procedures.
via Coast Guard reviews LNG shipments in wake of attempted attack | NECN.
While Block Island residents await a state Supreme Court ruling on the proposed 3-acre Champlin’s Marina expansion in the Great Salt Pond, environmentalists on the mainland are embroiled in a struggle regarding a plan to install a liquefied natural gas (LNG) platform off Narragansett Bay.
Weaver’s Cove Energy, partially owned by Amerada Hess Corporation, has plans to dig up more than 70 acres of the bottom of Mount Hope Bay, an estuary connected to the Narragansett Bay, to erect a platform for the storage of LNG.
via Block Island Times – Environmental struggle in Mount Hope Bay.
A six-year-old fight over a proposed LNG facility in Fall River has flared up once again in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
The Providence-based Save Our Sound, which is battling the latest plan by energy-giant Hess for a liquefied natural gas terminal in the region, last week launched a media blitz harshly criticizing the prospect of huge LNG tankers steaming up Narragansett Bay to an offshore berth in Mount Hope Bay.
via LNG plan faces more opposition – BostonHerald.com.
Unwilling to accept a ruling by a federal judge, Rhode Island went to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston to try to block the proposed Weaver’s Cove liquefied natural gas facility in Fall River. Now, even the appeals court has told the state that it cannot use legal tricks to undermine energy security for southern New England.
via Editorial: Win for energy security | Editorials | projo.com | The Providence Journal.
Fall River — Local environmental groups are ratcheting up their protests over the proposed Weaver’s Cove Energy liquefied natural gas terminal.
While the Coalition for Responsible Siting of LNG Facilities used a $500 donation on Tuesday to hold an impromptu press conference near the terminal to reinforce its fight, Save the Bay on Monday dove into a short-term public awareness campaign.
via Save the Bay, Fall River group ratchet up protests against LNG – Fall River, MA – The Herald News.
Save The Bay is poised to begin a high-profile campaign to rally Rhode Islanders against a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal proposed for Mount Hope Bay.
The $12,000-effort will feature advertisements on radio, in Newport and Jamestown newspapers and on billboards on Routes 195 and 24.
The subject of the protest is a plan by Weaver’s Cove Energy, co-owned by Poten & Partners and Amerada Hess Corp., to build a $700-million offloading facility in the middle of the Mount Hope Bay. The company says it would bring cheaper energy to the region.
via Save The Bay plans campaign to block LNG | Environment | projo.com | The Providence Journal.
The company will replace 6-inch diameter pipes with 12-inch pipes. “It is required to meet the increased demand for natural gas,” said Marylee Hanley, director of stakeholder outreach for Algonquin.
via Neighbors worry about work on gas pipeline in Norwich – Norwich, CT – Norwich Bulletin.
Repsol and Irving Oil officially opened their controversial liquefied natural gas terminal in Saint John, N.B., on Thursday at a Canaport LNG commissioning ceremony. The $1-billion terminal is the first to be built in Canada and the first land-based LNG-receiving and re-gas terminal built on the East Coast of North America in 30 years.
via CBC News – New Brunswick – LNG terminal opens in Saint John.
LNG Transfer Station Would Be ‘Far Off Shore But Close to Demand’
NEW YORK, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ — As part of a schedule of hearings conducted by the State of New York to determine its strategic energy plans, Atlantic Sea Island has provided the Paterson administration with a briefing on the role of the company’s proposed LNG transfer station 13.5 miles off the Long Island coast.
Ronald Lukas, Vice President, Gas Supply for Atlantic Sea Island Group, presented the firm’s proposal and provided a framework for how the off shore LNG facility would work within the state’s energy master plan.
Continue reading NY Energy Planners Briefed by Atlantic Sea Island Group
New evidence has emerged possibly linking natural gas drilling to groundwater contamination. ProPublica journalist Abrahm Lustgarten reports federal officials in Wyoming have found that at least three water wells contain chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.
via Fracking and the Environment: Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Contamination.
The Monthly Energy Review chronicles energy production and consumption data through May 2009 reports that from January to May, while production from coal fell 13 percent from 1.968 quadrillion Btu (QBTU) to 1.722 QBTU, and the use of natural gas fell 0.6%, from 1.845 QBTU to 1.834 QBTU; andnuclear went from .771 QBTU to .684 QBTU, falling 11.2 percent, renewables grew from .650 QBTU to .707 QBTU — a rise of 8.7% — and clearly the only grower of the bunch.
via Alternative Energy Growth | EnergyAndCapital.com.
Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch and Massachusetts, Attorney General Martha Coakley, are calling on the U.S. Coast Guard to reconsider its approval of Weaver’s Cove Energy’s offshore berthing plan and on Raymond J. Perry, Captain of the Port for Sector Southeastern New England, to reconsider his determination that the waterways associated with the planned Weaver’s Cove LNG terminal are suitable for the type and volume of LNG vessel traffic contemplated by the project.
via Rhode Island AG wants Coast Guard to revisit LNG decision – Fall River, MA – The Herald News.
via Liquefied Natural Gas law and news on federal regulation, regasification, environmental, safety and security issues | LNG Law Blog.
Greater New Haven Clean Cities Coalition, Inc.’s Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project is on a map published by the DOE showing the geographical distribution of the Clean Cities awards. The project will deploy multiple fuels and technologies. Vehicles to be deployed include 163 CNG, the vast majority for high mileage taxis and 18 heavy-duty LNG refuse trucks. Infrastructure to be deployed includes three CNG stations, one combined B20/CNG/Electric station, one L/CNG station, one hydrogen station, and seven electric chargers. Total DoE award: US$13,195,000
via DoE to invest nearly US$300m in clean vehicles initiatives | Renewable Energy Focus.
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