Court denies emergency request to stop Kinder Morgan’s Orion project

摘要

The environmental group Delaware Riverkeeper Network failed tornpersuade a federal appeals court to put a halt on a Kinder Morganrnnatural gas pipeline expansion project in Pennsylvania that has beenrnapproved by FERC and the US Army Corps of Engineers.rnThe 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals issued an April 7 orderrndenying the group’s request for an emergency stay. It found thatrnDelaware Riverkeeper was not likely to demonstrate that the Corpsrnimproperly issued a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit for the Orionrnpipeline expansion. The Corps relied on a lengthy FERC analysis ofrnproject alternatives in an environmental review of the project, therncourt noted.