A Louisiana department reissued a crucial permit last week for a liquefied natural gas export facility planned for the state’s southwest corner, just over a month after a state court vacated it.
The Commonwealth LNG project in Cameron Parish has its coastal use permit once again, the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy said in a revised basis of decision. The state said “the benefits of this project outweigh the costs to the community.”
In October, Judge Penelope Richard of Louisiana’s 38th Judicial District Court tossed out Commonwealth LNG’s permit, asserting that the Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resources failed to consider the terminal’s secondary and cumulative climate effects on the state’s coast, as well as how the project would affect certain disadvantaged communities.
The Department of Energy and Natural Resources was the former name of the state’s Department of Conservation and Energy.
