The Department of Energy will not decide on two major natural gas export projects until the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission completes environmental reviews of them, DOE said in a memo Tuesday.
The two projects are Commonwealth LNG and CP2, a massive terminal planned by Venture Global that has attracted widespread opposition from environmentalists.
Both export projects are planned for Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Developers are hoping to ship liquefied natural gas to countries that the U.S. does not have a free-trade agreement with. Those exports face a tougher legal test than shipments to FTA countries.
DOE said several other planned export projects are “undergoing environmental review before other federal agencies in which DOE is a cooperating agency, such that DOE cannot complete its own review until those other agency processes are completed.”
