Two legal challenges launched this week are taking aim at the federal authorization of a contentious liquefied natural gas export facility in southwestern Louisiana.
Fishermen, landowners and advocacy groups argued in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission did not adequately weigh the risks of the CP2 LNG project and did not find any public benefit from the facility to U.S. consumers.
FERC established the need for the terminal based entirely on an agreement with an affiliate of the project developer that would export LNG, the challengers said.
Federal regulators simply dismissed the effects of the planned CP2 terminal on local communities and fishermen “with little to no analysis of the truly very drastic impact,” said Megan Gibson, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center. The group is representing the fishermen, landowners and advocacy groups in their lawsuit against the LNG project.
