Sentences with phrase «of natural gas facilities»

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DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.

Back when Uncle Sam thought it would have to import increasing volumes of natural gas from abroad (which was only a few years ago), it built a number of LNG import terminals on the Gulf Coast, including the Freeport facility and the only other one with the same export permit, the Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass Liquefaction project in Louisiana.

Asian investors in particular are growing weary of Canada's sluggish pace of building energy infrastructure — the pipelines and liquefied natural gas facilities needed to get Canadian fossil fuels to offshore markets.

Under all five variations, plans call for the increase in solar as well as the addition of at least eight natural gas - fired facilities with a combined capacity of between 3,500 - 5,000 megawatts, Koonce said.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has confirmed Americans and others are being held by Islamic militants after what he calls a «terrorist attack» occurred at a natural gas facility in Algeria.

Capable of powering 15,000 homes, the system was conceived as part of a backup against projected energy shortages following a huge methane leak at a natural gas facility near Los Angeles.

Join us to hear how LNG Canada is planning to sustainably develop an LNG export facility that will provide a security of supply of abundant Canadian natural gas to global markets.

Adjusted earnings for 2016 also exclude the gains on the sale of natural gas generation facilities.»

Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners LP owns and operates a portfolio of renewable power generating facilities including 193 hydroelectric generating stations 11 wind facilities and two natural gas - fired plants in USA Canada and Brazil.

Meanwhile, Qatar remains the world's biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas and will add to its capacity this year, when its $ 10 billion Barzan gas - production facility begins operating.

The Alberta - based company's facilities run on a number of different sources, such as natural gas, wind, and coal.

Boardwalk has storage in areas where large amounts of facilities are being built that use natural gas such as LNG export facilities, petrochemical plants etc..

Our Environmental Policy commits us to continuous efforts to improve environmental performance and requires our facilities to be designed, operated, and managed with the goal of preventing incidents and reducing adverse impacts, including impacts associated with the development of unconventional natural gas.

Some of the facilities also supply, or have the ability to supply, natural gas to wholesale domestic markets.

The gut retching reality of life and death in your average African village with no clean water, electricity, gas, medical facilities or hope for change is «natural living».

With the State's moratorium on (fracked shale) natural gas production, the only way we can receive natural gas is from the Constitution Pipeline and local distribution from the Leatherstocking Company... It is also important to note that a state agency, Empire State Development, has provided a $ 750,000 grant... to assist in degrading the costs of bringing the Leatherstocking gas line to our new facility.

It will also include incentives for upstate nuclear facilities, which provide a significant source of carbon - free power, but are struggling financially against natural gas plants.

The proposal comes as nuclear facilities across the country feel the financial pressure of cheap natural gas produced by the fracking boom and after Entergy has already decided to close its Vermont Yankee facility for economic reasons.

Meanwhile, the end of the remedial works indicates that, the process to connect the TEN fields to the Atuabo plant has been completed with a significant increase in the amount of natural gas produced to run the power generating facilities at Aboadze, to improve the overall reliability of power supply to the general public.

At 9 a.m., a coalition of environmental groups deliver a letter to the governor opposing the Port Ambrose offshore liquefied natural gas facility, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.

Also at 6 p.m., a large coalition of environmental and civic groups opposed to the Port Ambrose offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility will call for Cuomo to veto the project at a rally outside of a fundraiser the governor will attend at the Harvard Club, (which is not on his public schedule), 35 West 44th St., Manhattan.

But the administration has now taken a similar tack on a number of other controversial projects, staying silent rather than approving or blocking them, including a major proposed propane storage project in the Finger Lakes, the construction of new liquefied natural gas storage areas across the state and a crude - oil heating facility at the Port of Albany.

The state has had a de facto ban on the new construction of liquefied natural gas storage facilities for about 40 years, after a Staten Island facility exploded and killed 40 people.

CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, N.Y. — Assemblyman Andy Goodell says he's reasonably optimistic the NRG plant in Dunkirk will be repowered into a state - of - the - art clean burning natural gas facility as planned.

The department has been sitting on a number of key decisions as well, including approvals of natural gas pipelines, an underground gas storage facility in the Finger Lakes and crude oil heating facility for the Port of Albany.

Since Cuomo announced the project last May, community members have continued to push back against the microgrid proposal that would continue to be powered by natural gas — a facility that seemed all too similar to the ANSWERS plant the community members rallied against only a couple of decades prior.

Representing a smattering of different environmental advocacy groups from around the state, about 250 protesters held signs calling on officials and lawmakers to prohibit any more natural gas pipelines being built in New York, to stop the construction of a proposed liquid natural gas storage facility next to Seneca Lake, and to shift the state's energy production to greener fuel sources....

, community members have continued to push back against the microgrid proposal that would continue to be powered by natural gas — a facility that seemed all too similar to the ANSWERS plant the community members rallied against only a couple of decades prior.

State Senator Jim Seward joined community, labor and business leaders to announce the launch of New Yorkers for Affordable Energy, which supports increasing access to natural gas for manufacturing facilities, power production, transportation, and other purposes to support New York's economy and quality of life:

The plan includes wind farms offshore from Long Island instead of the proposed liquified natural gas export facility.

The owners of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant are planning to close the facility in January 2017 because competition from natural gas has driven down profits.

We'll stay vigilant as the NYCERS Board develops its strategy, and we continue to support the call to prevent the development of the Port Ambrose Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) facility.

While Cuomo has held off on giving the green light to the use of fracking for natural gas, his administration has pushed forward the construction of the infrastructure that supports fracking, including pipelines and storage facilities.

The county made reductions by boosting the use of natural gas vehicles, installing LED lighting around county facilities, but mostly by purchasing more electricity from cleaner sources.

The Bush administration originally touted these right - of - ways in 2005 as a means to link solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, but proposals officials approved before leaving office in January have them connecting existing coal - fired power plants and natural gas facilities.

Globally, underground natural gas storage facilities hold reserves representing 10 % of the world's annual gas consumption.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

By looking at the plant's total annual utility use and the fraction of yearly operations needed to print a single issue of DISCOVER, David Hakenewerth, a manager at Quebecor's Jonesboro facility, determined that producing one month's edition of the magazine consumes 63,364 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 1,704 therms of natural gas.

The 23 October 2015 blowout of a well connected to the Aliso Canyon underground storage facility in California resulted in a massive release of natural gas.

According to a RAN report published in June, 25 banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and BNP Paribas, have invested $ 784 billion in coal mining, coal power, «extreme oil» and liquefied natural gas facilities between 2013 and 2015 (ClimateWire, June 15).

Other major TVA facilities that have announced plans in recent years to shut down include the Colbert Fossil Plant, also in Alabama, and the Paradise Fossil Plant in Kentucky, where two of three coal units were slated for closure while a third unit was to be converted to burn natural gas (ClimateWire, Nov. 15, 2013).

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

Its age is not unusual, considering that all of California's underground natural gas storage facilities are located in depleted oil or gas reservoirs.

«Thanks to abundant supplies of natural gas, the U.S. chemical industry is investing in new facilities and expanded production capacity, which tends to attract downstream industries that rely on petrochemical products.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to Natgasoline LLC to construct a new motor - grade gasoline production facility in Texas that uses natural gas as feedstock (gas - to - gasoline, or GtG).

The most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector, released last week, show that as the number of such facilities have increased in the U.S. between 2011 and 2014, total greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas operations have risen by about 6.2 percent.

[14] The Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility contains 115 wells tapping a reservoir that «hold [s] up to 86 billion cubic feet of natural gas for distribution to residences, businesses, and electric utilities in the L.A. basin».

Following the Aliso Canyon underground natural gas storage leak, the largest natural gas release in U.S. history, and subsequent Congressional mandates, PHMSA is working to issue an IFR to require operators of underground storage facilities for natural gas to comply with minimum Federal safety standards for the regulation of interstate underground natural gas storage facilities.

Following the Aliso Canyon release Congress passed the PIPES Act of 2016 (Pl 114 - 183) mandating that PHMSA «issue minimum safety standards for underground natural gas storage facilities.»

The Transco Compressor Station 62 facility is located between Gibson and Houma, LA near Bayou Black, where it receives unprocessed natural gas via pipelines from offshore producers in the Gulf of Mexico.