A series of draft environmental and socioeconomic reports for the Alaska LNG project have been submitted to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which is responsible for conducting the environmental review of the project.
These reports also launch the prefile public engagement process and provide preliminary baseline data about the project area and its potential impacts.
“These draft documents, known as resource reports, allow Alaska stakeholders to engage early in the regulatory process, so potential environmental and socioeconomic issues and opportunities can be proactively identified and managed,” said Steve Butt, project executive for the Alaska LNG project.
The Alaska LNG project is currently in the preliminary front-end engineering and design phase, which is expected to extend into 2016 with a gross spend of more than $500 million.
The Alaska LNG project participants are Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) and affiliates of ExxonMobil Corp., BP PLC, ConocoPhillips, and TransCanada Corp. The US Department of Energy issued a Free-Trade Agreement export authorization to the project in November 2014.
“As the Alaska LNG project design and scope become more defined, specific project impacts and their proposed mitigation measures will be included in second drafts of the resource reports, which are expected to be submitted to FERC in the next 12 to 18 months,” the partners said.
