Federal regulators said expected pollution from a major liquefied natural gas terminal planned along the Louisiana coast isn’t “significant,” moving the project closer toward construction.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s draft supplemental environmental review for Venture Global’s CP2 LNG project found that the terminal and a related compressor station wouldn’t contribute major “cumulative air quality impacts.”
FERC staff members determined that the emissions effects, when “combined with past, present, and reasonably foreseeable emissions within the regional air environment, are not significant,” the commission said in an analysis released Friday.
The CP2 project is planned in Louisiana’s Cameron Parish in the southwest corner of the state, with an export capacity of at least 20 million metric tons per year. That amount could be even higher under optimal conditions, the company has said. It would be located near the existing Calcasieu Pass LNG export terminal.
