Real Estate & Property Law

Turtle Creek Bayou

By Alan Ackerman

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. PF09–14–000]

Turtle Bayou Gas Storage Company,

LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Assessment for the

Planned Turtle Bayou Natural Gas

Storage Project, and Request for

Comments on Environmental Issues

The Turtle Creek Bayou Natural Gas Storage Project, Liberty County, Texas, intends to store gas in two salt storage caverns. This offers a protective shell, likely avoiding leakage issues, which seem to be prevalent in many storage fields. In all likelihood, the gas storage company was intelligent enough to obtain the lease from the owner, knowing how much it would have to pay for the storage facility prior to initiating the application.

Full post as published by National Eminent Domain Blog on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).