Motion by Sierra Club for Rehearing and For Stay Pendente Lite in CP11-72.

5I1BI12 Mixed response to Sablne Pass - POLITICO.com Prlnt View president of the Center for Liqueed Natural Gas, an LNG trade association. It provides the regulatory certainty for what FERC is looking for in a liquefaction facility." Sabine Pass was able to skip the environmental impact statement that environmentalists have demanded because the liquefaction operations will be housed on the property, where the environmental impacts have already been assessed. Environmentalists have also decried the export applications on the grounds that one of the processes that make the exports possible fracking is harmful. In challenging a similar liquefaction facility in Freeport, Texas, this month, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said that exporting natural gas is bad for Texas and bad for America. [it] requires increased natural gas production and more unsafe fracking, making a dirtyfuel more dangerous. Still, at least seven project applications for LNG exports are awaiting approval. One, the Jordan Cove Energy Project, was originally designed to import natural gas to its facility in Oregon. but FERC vacated that application last week. hstead, the company has reapplied to the Energy Department to begin exporting natural gas. "its obviouslya very radical and abrupt turnaround," said DeFazio, who represents the area where the project would have been sited. We were told four to ve years ago that wed have to build multiple import facilities to meetthe demand, but new drilling technologies have opened up new opportunities. Sabine Pass is the rst such project to get federal approval. But Spitzer predicted that similar facilities wont pop up everywhere, because liquefaction projects are expensive and require a lot of upfront capital costs. Youre not going to be building itjust for the heck of it, Spitzer said. People predicted huge numbers of export facilities, and Im not sure, given the costs and the economic oorstraints, that is going to happen." 2012 POLITICOLUC dyn.pclitioo.oomlprintstory.l:fm!uuid=38DFE15C-E7DO4E5582FD-EEM06635E56 5I1BI12 Mlxed response to Sablne Pass - POLITICO.com Print Vlew Advance tickets now available for American Express Card members. GET TICKETS POLITICO Mixed response to Sabine Pass By' Talia Buford Apnl23,201210.55 PM EDT The pump is primed for the lower 48 states to get their rst liqueed natural gas export facility now that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved Cheniere Energy Partners' Sabine Pass project. And similar efforts are waiting in the pipeline. But even as ...