Workers on the Federal Power Regulatory Fee (FERC) has issued a closing supplemental environmental influence assertion (SEIS) for Glenfarne Group LLC’s Texas LNG mission.
Texas LNG already holds Power Division permits to export as much as 4 million metric tons a yr, or 204.4 billion cubic ft a yr of pure gasoline equal, to FTA and non-FTA nations. The authorizations had been issued September 2015 and February 2020 respectively.
The mission consists of a brand new LNG terminal on the north aspect of the Brownsville Ship Channel, 2.5 miles southwest of the City of Port Isabel and 19 miles northeast of the Metropolis of Brownsville. It’s designed to have two liquefaction trains. Feed gasoline can be delivered through a deliberate third-party pipeline, based on the proposal to FERC.
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The brand new SEIS issued final week was in response to a second remand by the Court docket of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in August 2024 of FERC’s authorization of the mission. In that order the court docket vacated FERC’s authorization issued April 2023 as a result of the Fee had not issued a SEIS.
In March 2025 the court docket modified its August 2024 order and issued a remand with out vacatur.
Within the new SEIS, “Fee employees conclude that… communities within the areas close to the terminal could expertise important cumulative visible impacts”, FERC stated in an announcement on its web site.
“Particular to air high quality impacts, we make clear that the mission’s air high quality impacts on communities with environmental justice issues would even be disproportionate and antagonistic; nevertheless, these impacts can be lower than important.
“For all different sources, FERC employees continues to conclude that approval of the mission would lead to lower than important impacts, with implementation of the environmental circumstances set forth within the Fee’s prior authorizations for the mission, and the extra mitigation measures beneficial within the closing supplemental EIS.
“The Fee will think about the evaluation and conclusions of the ultimate supplemental EIS in its additional deserves order for the mission”.
Glenfarne, an vitality infrastructure developer primarily based in New York and Houston, stated in an announcement on the brand new SEIS that it expects FERC to grant its closing clearance for the mission in November. The corporate nonetheless goals to make a FID (closing funding resolution) by year-end.
“Texas LNG has secured buyer offtake commitments from EQT Corp., Gunvor Group, Macquarie Group and certainly one of Europe’s main utilities in a quantity adequate for attaining closing funding resolution”, Glenfarne stated.
Kiewit gained the engineering, procurement and building contract final yr.
“The FERC closing supplemental EIS for Texas LNG strengthens an already sturdy report of federal evaluation and help and confirms the idea for the prevailing authorization for this mission”, stated Glenfarne chief govt and founder Brendan Duval.
“Texas LNG’s ‘inexperienced by design’ technique makes use of electrical motor drives to energy the ability, making it one of many lowest-emitting liquefaction services on the planet”.
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