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One of the key pipeline projects to supply Venture Global Inc.’s Plaquemines LNG export terminal in Louisiana could be built with limited and mostly temporary impacts, FERC staff concluded in a recently published draft environmental impact statement (EIS).
The draft EIS published Friday is the latest step for Enbridge Inc.’s proposed Venice Extension project is the latest step for the firm’s plan to expand existing transmission infrastructure across coastal Louisiana (No. CP22-15-000). The project could add three miles of additional pipeline, new compressor and metering facilities and upgrades to water-side infrastructure. Enbridge could also abandon parts of its existing pipeline network and at least two existing compressor facilities.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff wrote that the majority of the negative impacts from the project would end after construction and are proposed for existing infrastructure or sites that already have a heavy industrial presence. With the mitigation methods proposed in the project design, FERC staff concluded “project effects would be reduced to less-than-significant levels, except for climate change impacts that are not characterized in this EIS as significant or insignificant.”
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Venice is half of a pair of infrastructure projects planned to deliver 1.5 Bcf/d of natural gas to Plaquemines LNG through Enbridge’s Texas Eastern Transmission pipeline. Its sister project, the Gator Express Meter (GEM) interconnection, was scoped by FERC alongside Plaquemines and previously received a final EIS in 2019 (Nos. CP17-66-000 and CP17-67-000)
Enbridge sanctioned both projects in May. GEM is expected to be in service in 2023, with the Venice Extension to follow in 2024. Enbridge pegged the cost for both projects at $400 million, which would be underpinned by long-term take or pay contracts.
Development of the 13.33 million metric tons/year (mmty) first phase of Plaquemines LNG is currently underway after Venture Global sanctioned the project in May, shortly before Enbridge’s announcement. The firm has also proposed an additional phase to its Calcasieu Pass LNG terminal, also in Louisiana.
The draft EIS for Plaquemines came alongside a glut of other reviews from FERC staff, including an EIS for the Commonwealth LNG terminal proposed for Cameron, LA. In Commonwealth’s review, FERC staff included environmental justice considerations, such as an impact to visual resources and cumulative environmental impacts to marginalized communities.
FERC staff also included an environmental justice analysis in the review for Plaquemines, but ultimately concluded the impacts to low-income and largely minority communities around the project would be “insignificant and temporary.”
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