Fight over exports at Cove Point

BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: April 29, 2012
Tags: cove point, export, marcellus shale, maryland, natural gas, shipment, sierra club, U. S. Energy Information Administration
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Pipelines run from the to the liquefied natural gas tanks at Dominion Resources’ facility in Lusby. The company would like to begin exporting LNG from the terminal.

Lusby’s natural gas import terminal is a victim of the boom in domestic production, and the industry’s political and economic uncertainties are endangering its owner’s efforts to rebound by adding export capabilities to the facility to take advantage of the plant’s vicinity to the Marcellus Shale gas field. The development of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, [...]

Sierra Club blocks Md. natural gas export terminal

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 26, 2012
Tags: blocked, calvert cliffs, marcellus shale, maryland, natural gas, sierra club, terminal, washington

WASHINGTON — The Sierra Club says it will block an energy company’s plan to export liquefied natural gas from the booming Marcellus Shale formation. Virginia-based Dominion Resources Inc. is seeking to export 1 billion cubic feet per day through a terminal it owns in Maryland. A previous legal settlement gives the Sierra Club the ability [...]

Maryland coalition calls for 4-fold flush fee hike

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 5, 2012
Tags: Annapolis, chesapeake bay foundation, clean water, clean water healthy families coalition, coalition, Environment, environment maryland, flush fee, gov. martin o'malley, Maryland League of Conservation Voters, septic systems, sewage, sierra club, task force
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ANNAPOLIS — A coalition of Maryland environmental groups is calling for a four-fold increase in the so-called flush fee for sewage and septic system upgrades. A state task force is considering recommending a doubling of the $30 fee in 2013, and increasing it to $90 for property owners in 2015. The Clean Water, Healthy Families [...]