Enviros Say Maine LNG Project Needs Harder Look From FERC

Law360, New York (September 17, 2012, 5:27 PM ET) -- A Maine environmental group on Monday told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that analysis of a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal doesn’t examine how the project could disturb toxins in a northeastern bay, potentially contaminating sea life and harming local food supplies.

Save Passamaquoddy Bay, which is fighting to protect a coastal area near the U.S.-Canada border, said in a letter to FERC and the state’s two U.S. senators that an environmental impact statement and biological assessment take an excessively narrow look at toxins, reviewing those...
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