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The United States issued fresh sanctions on Wednesday on several Russia-based entities over their involvement in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the State Department said, including new measures ...
A federal appeals court has again blocked construction on a segment of a contentious natural gas pipeline being built through Virginia and West Virginia, this time doing so even after Congress ...
Certificate is required for interstate pipeline construction [58] [59] September 4, 2020. Federal regulators ruled that the pipeline would not jeopardize any of the five endangered or threatened species known to live in its path, [58] reinstating the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Opinion and Incidental Take Statement. [59] September ...
The German part of the pipeline consists of 85 km (53 mi) of offshore pipeline and 29 km (18 mi) onshore pipeline connecting the landfall with the Nord Stream 2 receiving terminal. [51] Nord Stream 2 has two parallel lines, each with a capacity of 27.5 billion m 3 (970 billion cu ft) of natural gas per year. [60] [51]
On April 15, 2020, District Judge Brian Morris issued a suspension of the pipeline construction after the plaintiffs, the Northern Plains Resource Council, alleged the project was improperly reauthorized back in 2017. [96] [97] In the summary judgment, the judge agreed that the Endangered Species Act was violated, thereby voiding the permit.
Last October, an Idaho farmer using a backhoe punched a hole into a 22-inch (56-cm) pipeline buried under a field, sending more than 51 million cubic feet of natural gas hissing into the air.
The construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System included over 800 miles (1,300 km) of oil pipeline, 12 pump stations, and a new tanker port.Built largely on permafrost during 1975–77 between Prudhoe Bay and Valdez, Alaska, the $8 billion effort required tens of thousands of people, often working in extreme temperatures and conditions, the invention of specialized construction techniques ...
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