Chris Mele

A plan to bring liquified natural gas from Wyalusing, Pa., to a port in Gibbstown, N.J., has focused largely on the potential hazards of transporting as much as 3 million gallons of the highly flammable product at a time by rail. But the project sponsor also has plans to send as many as 400 tanker…

Critics of a plan to transport liquefied natural gas from northeastern Pennsylvania to a port on the Delaware River in New Jersey welcomed a recent federal ruling that they say could put up significant regulatory speed bumps – or possibly derail the project altogether. The ruling, by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, involved an LNG facility…

Lonnie E. Click, a fire chief in Benton County in southern Washington, was at his desk when he first heard the call: an explosion at a liquified natural gas storage facility. The call was outside his jurisdiction but, based on what he was hearing on the radio, he decided to head to the scene. From atop a hill, Click…

The newly permitted tank cars that would take LNG from Wyalusing, Pa. to Gibbstown, N.J. by train are posing lots of questions — especially about safety and availability — and there aren’t a lot of answers.

It doesn’t look like much right now, but this plot of concrete is the foundation of a natural gas processing plant in Wyalusing, Pa., built by New Fortress Energy. Liquified natural gas would be transported from here by truck or rail to a port in Gibbstown, N.J., on the shores of the Delaware River. Construction…

An aerial photo of the natural gas processing site in Wyalusing, Pa., where construction has been temporarily halted. The company behind the project expects production of LNG to begin in the first quarter of 2022. Credit: The Rocket-Courier of Wyalusing, Pa. For our complete coverage of the Wyalusing, Pa./ Gibbstown, N.J. LNG project, please click…

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A full deck at the Delaware RIver Basin Commission’s Sept.11 meeting. From left (Bryan Ashby (Delaware); Kenneth Kosinski (New York); Steve Tambini, ED DRBC; LTC David Park (USACE); Aneca Atkinson (Pennsylvania); Jeffrey Hoffman (New Jersey) Not pictured Pamela Bush, Secretary and Asst Gen. Counsel; Kenneth Warren, Gen Counsel

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Posts by Chris Mele

LNG From Pennsylvania to New Jersey: 400 Tanker Trucks a Day

Opponents of Pennsylvania-New Jersey LNG Plan Cheer Federal Ruling

The Storage and Transportation of LNG: What Could Go Wrong?

LNG Rail Tank Cars: The Few and the Unknown

Gibbstown LNG Project: Many Hurdles Remain