Quantcast
Channel: Trade Restrictions | Eversheds Sutherland LNG Law Blog
Browsing index pages (28 articles)

AltaGas’s Proposed Floating Liquefaction Facility Facing C$100 Million...

AltaGas Ltd., one of the sponsors of the proposed Douglas Channel LNG export terminal at Kitimat, British Columbia, is delaying a final investment decision on the project pending the outcome of an...

View Article


AltaGas’s Proposed Floating Liquefaction Facility Facing C$100 Million...

AltaGas Ltd., one of the sponsors of the proposed Douglas Channel LNG export terminal at Kitimat, British Columbia, is delaying a final investment decision on the project pending the outcome of an...

View Article


Joining TPP Could Ease Japan’s Access to U.S. LNG Supplies

An article in The Japan Times states that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe favors Japan entering into Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations with the United States. The Trans-Pacific...

View Article

Some Experts Say U.S. Limits on LNG Exports Would Violate WTO Rules

According to sources cited in a Reuters article, U.S. government restrictions on LNG exports would be hypocritical and would violate World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.

View Article

DOE Denies Sierra Club’s Rehearing and Stay Request re Sabine Pass LNG Export...

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued an order denying Sierra Club’s request for rehearing and stay of DOE’s Final Opinion and Order, which granted Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC’s...

View Article


New Mexico’s Governor Files Comments Supporting LNG Exports

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chu in support of LNG exports and, citing employment, investment and balance of trade benefits, urged DOE to...

View Article

Japanese Companies File Comments at DOE in Support of U.S. LNG Exports to...

The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan and Japanese utilities Osaka Gas and Chubu Electric filed comments at the U.S. Department of Energy in support of U.S. LNG exports to countries...

View Article

U.S. Senators Support Increased LNG Exports

Senator David Vitter (R-LA), Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and freshman Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) sent letters to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chu urging DOE to...

View Article


Bipartisan Group of 110 House Members Urge DOE to Permit LNG Exports

A group of 110 bipartisan members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chu in support of LNG exports and urging DOE to approve exports of...

View Article


Caterpillar and U.S. Chamber Oppose LNG Export Restrictions

Caterpillar, based in Peoria, Illinois, released a statement that it opposed limitations on LNG exports because they would discourage economic growth and be counterproductive to U.S. efforts to keep...

View Article

Dow Chemical Files Comments with DOE Opposing LNG Exports

Dow Chemical filed comments today in response to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) commissioned macroeconomic study by NERA Economic Consulting. Reiterating its prior public positions, Dow urges the...

View Article

API Files Comments at DOE Supporting LNG Exports

The American Petroleum Institute (API) filed comments today at the U.S. Department of Energy in support of the expeditious approval of pending LNG export applications, stating that “the evidence...

View Article

Former Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Supports LNG Exports

Edward G. Rendell, the Democratic former Governor of Pennsylvania, submitted a letter to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chu in support of LNG exports and urging DOE to approve the pending...

View Article


Dow Chemical Leaves NAM Over Gas Export Policy

MarketWatch reports that Dow Chemical is leaving the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) because of NAM’s position on LNG export policy. According to the article, Dow Chemical, which favors...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

European LNG Headlines

Europe Clears Total for Russian LNG (UPI)

View Article


U.S. FTA with South Korea Goes Into Effect Today

In a statement released this morning, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that the free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and South Korea goes into effect today....

View Article

Japan to Request DOE Permission to Import U.S. LNG

Platts reported today that Japanese delegates intend to meet today with U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman and request permission to import relatively low-priced U.S. LNG. The...

View Article


Analysis: Japan’s Effort to Import U.S. LNG Faces Obstacles

An analysis carried in The Wall Street Journal argues that there are several obstacles that could prevent Japan from becoming a major importer of U.S. natural gas as LNG, including U.S. domestic law,...

View Article

U.S. DOE: No Final Orders on Pending LNG Export Applications to Non-FTA...

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Assistant Secretary Christopher Smith told House Representative Edward Markey in a February 24, 2012 letter that DOE will not issue final orders on pending...

View Article

Congressman Proposes Legislation to Limit LNG Exports

Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced two bills yesterday that would limit LNG exports from the United States. The first would require that any natural gas produced from federal lands would have...

View Article
Browsing index pages (28 articles)


Latest Images