Comment of Bosleys/Balama Farms under CP13-8.
02/26/2015February 9, 2015 To: Larine Moore, U.S. Department of Energy (FE-34), Office of Oil and Gas Global Security and Supply, Office of Fossil Fuel Energy Email: fergas@hq.doe.gov RE: Pieridae LNG Export Permit application docket no. FE-14-179-LNG cc: Secretary Kathleen Bose, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Re: Spectra Algonquin Incremental Market Project (AIM), Docket CP14-96 and Spectra Atlantic Bridge Project, Docket PF15-12 Dear Ms. Moore and Ms. Bose, The Department of Energy must reject the application of Pieridae Energy (USA) Ltd." to export domestically produced natural gas through Canada to non-free trade agreement counties after liquification to liquified natural gas for a 20-year period" "because it does not serve the American public. The application any Pieridae Energy requests "long- term, muti-contract authorization to export domestically produced natural gas in a volume of up to 292 billion cubic feet per year (Bcf/yr), or approximately 0.8 Bcf per day (Bcf/d) to export gas as follows: (i) To export the natural gas to Canada at the United States-Canada border near Baileyville, Maine at the juncture of the" Spectra Energy Partners, LP Maritimes & Northeast US pipeline and the Spectra Energy Partners, LP Maritimes & Northeast Canadian pipeline. (ii) to use a portion of the U.S.-sources natural gas as feedstock in a Canadian natural gas liquification facility called the Goldboro LNG Project, to be developed by one or more Pieridae affiliates and to be located at the Goldboro Industrial Park in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada, and (iii) to export a portion of the U.S.-sourced gas in the form of liquified natural gas (LNG) by vessel from Canada to one or more countries with which the United States does not have a free-trade agreement (FTA) requiring national treatment for trade in natural gas and with which trade is not prohibited by U.S. law or policy (non-FTA countries). Only Pieridae's US's proposed export of LNG produced from U.S.-sourced natural gas to non-FTA countries is subject to this Notice." This application must be rejected because it is not in the public interest for these reasons: 1) The beneficiaries include foreign nations and private corporations, including Spectra Energy Partners, LP; Emera, Inc,; ExxonMobil Corporation; M&N Operating Company, LLC, Westcoast Energy Inc., Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, LLC; Maritimes & Northeast Pipelines Limited Partnership (Canada); Pieridae US (which is the sole general partner of Goldboro LNG Limited Partnership) ...