Protest organizers say fracking wouldn’t happen without FERC Several days of protests are about to kick off in Washington, DC in response to the increasing toll which hydraulic fracking is taking on communities in the United States and the global climate. A coalition group called Beyond Extreme Energy has planned […]
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Agency refuses to acknowledge widespread outrage at role in burgeoning gas infrastructure On May 14, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in its monthly open meeting took up the issue of the electrical grid’s vulnerability to geomagnetic disturbances. But the government agency’s own vulnerability to public disturbance was front and center. […]
At his first meeting as FERC Chairman, Commissioner Norman Bay gave the cold shoulder to demonstrators who repeatedly interrupted him to protest what they say is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s rubber stamp approach to regulation. “Oh my God, we have a situation here. The situation is not going away,” […]
Washington, D.C.,- Environmental advocates used their bodies to block the entrances of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Monday and called for an end of the so-called rubber stamp polices of the agency that regulates interstate natural gas pipelines and gas compression stations. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) dispatched dozens of uniformed officers […]