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Mass. town asks court to revoke approval of Algonquin Gas expansion

A Massachusetts town asked a federal appeals court to review the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of the 132,705-Dth/d Atlantic Bridge expansion of Enbridge Inc.'s Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC natural gas pipeline.

The town of Weymouth, Mass., also asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the FERC decision not to rehear the project's certificate order. The town has filed other petitions with the court to challenge the project.

Weymouth said in a Feb. 5 petition that the estimated $451.8 million expansion project threatens the health and safety of residents. A compressor station for the project would be built within the town, leaving residents near "noisy operation and toxic emissions," the town said.

"The injuries Weymouth would face if the compressor station were constructed are directly traceable to the challenged certificate order," the town said. "The court could redress this harm by vacating the certificate order." (U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit docket 18-1039)

FERC approved the project on Jan. 25, 2017, allowing the developer to build new pipeline and compression facilities in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The commission granted Algonquin permission to begin building part of the project in New York in October 2017 and authorized partial service in New York and Connecticut later that month. The expansion project will provide additional transportation capacity for gas moving north from receipt points in New Jersey and New York. (FERC docket CP16-9-001)

Spectra Energy Partners LP, an Enbridge company, owns Algonquin.