North America
Developer drops plan for 119-turbine wind farm in Maine
A 119-turbine wind farm in Aroostook County that would have been the largest in Maine and one of the largest ever planned for New England has withdrawn its application, citing ...
Amazon orders new wind farm in Ohio to help power business
Amazon.com said Monday it’s commissioned a new 189-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Hardin County, Ohio, to help offset the power needs of its cloud computing business, Kallanish Energy reports. Amazon ...
N.Y. nuclear plants’ subsidy challenged by natgas users
Companies operating natural gas-fired power plants in New York are challenging a new state subsidy put in place to keep the state’s nuclear facilities online, Kallanish Energy learns. Earlier this ...
Port Arthur LNG files to build TX liquefaction/export complex
Sempra Energy said Tuesday its liquefied natural gas (LNG) subsidiaries have filed applications with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to site, construct and operate the Port Arthur LNG natural ...
Massive North Dakota oil spill not yet cleaned up – more than 3 years after occurence
Thirty-nine months after it occurred, a 20,000-barrel (Bbl) oil spill in North Dakota still isn’t fully cleaned up – and the company responsible for the accident has yet to set ...
California pipeline proposal could be in trouble
The proposal to build a 65-mile natural gas pipeline through San Bernardino County, California, to Moreno Valley could be in trouble. Sempra Energy subsidiaries Southern California Gas ...
Could Western Pennsylvania get a second cracker plant?
Could western Pennsylvania be getting a second ethane cracker plant? That possibility surfaced at an Aug. 23 public meeting in Beaver County where Royal Dutch Shell has ...
FERC rejects N.Y. tree-cutting request re: Constitution line
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected a rehearing on unauthorized tree cutting associated with the $1 billion Constitution Pipeline in New York and Pennsylvania, Kallanish Energy ...
Arson destroys construction equipment on Dakota Access Pipeline
Federal and state agencies are investigating a $2 million fire suspected of being arson along the Dakota Access Pipeline in central Iowa, Kallanish Energy reports. The fire ...
Nevada firm to pursue buy of TVA’s unfinished nuclear plant
A Nevada energy company said it wants to purchase an unfinished nuclear power plant from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and use the site in northeast Alabama to produce electricity ...