… We do not expect action on Spire STL’s pending request for a temporary/emergency certificate,” ClearView Energy Partners said in a research note yesterday. 14 order authorizing the Spire STL to operate under emergency authority. “ applies only to the motions for rehearing of FERC’s Sept. At its regular open meeting next week, the commission may issue a decision in response to several requests for rehearing on its September order that authorized the existing temporary certificate, according to a FERC notice posted this week. 13,” the company said in the email last week.įERC declined to comment on the company’s request, which is pending. Louis community with energy, but there are no guarantees it will operate beyond Dec. “We’re confident that we’ve done everything we can to demonstrate the critical role the pipeline plays in providing the St. Louis-area residents have sent comments to the independent agency in the last week expressing fears about losing heat if the pipeline shuts down. Separately, it has also urged customers to contact FERC. Louis region in which it warned of potential disruptions and outages to natural gas service if FERC does not grant its request. Last week, the company sent an email to its approximately 650,000 customers in the St.
“Anything that would replace that is going to take time to build, require us to reconfigure our system and do other things to meet that long-term demand,” Carter said on a press call. There is no alternative source of natural gas that Spire could draw from to ensure that supply can reliably meet peak demand for all customers this winter, said Scott Carter, president of Spire Missouri, the pipeline company’s affiliated gas utility.
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13 through the entirety of winter while the agency determines how to respond to the unanimous ruling from the D.C. Spire has asked FERC to allow the project to operate after Dec. It comes as the independent agency is already considering whether to change the “certificate policy statement” that guides its decisionmaking for proposed natural gas pipelines - a process that FERC Chair Richard Glick has said should be more thorough ( Energywire, May 28). Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit also marks the first time that an in-service interstate natural gas pipeline has had its FERC permit revoked, observers say. “The case has made clear the need for FERC to reform its reviews going forward of pipeline infrastructure and make sure it does the rigorous assessment Congress entrusted it to do under the Natural Gas Act,” Natalie Karas, lead counsel and senior director at the Environmental Defense Fund’s energy program, said in a call with reporters yesterday. The legal case has drawn national interest, since it may compel FERC, which has jurisdiction over interstate natural gas pipelines, to change how it broadly determines whether gas projects should be approved.įERC has approved more than 99 percent of proposed natural gas pipelines by some estimates, often relying on the existence of so-called precedent agreements between developers and one or more customers when deciding whether to authorize a project. Although FERC approved the project in a 3-2 vote three years ago, a federal court yanked Spire STL LLC’s original permit in June after it found that FERC had overlooked evidence showing that the pipeline wasn’t needed ( Energywire, Sept. Louis with a temporary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that expires Dec. A fight over the future of a Midwest natural gas pipeline escalated yesterday, as the project’s developers warned it could shut down this winter while critics accused them of misleading the public about fuel shortages.Ĭompleted in 2019, the 65-mile Spire STL pipeline is currently operating in St.
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