DOE IG report faults FERC pipeline reviews for lack of transparency

Utility Dive: The DOE Inspector General report could give credence to claims by FERC critics that the agency does not properly weigh the environmental risks of pipeline development in its approval process.

The report faults FERC for not having a consistent methodology for tracking comments. Without that, authors wrote, "we did not verify to what degree comments received by FERC were considered, aggregated, and reflected in the environmental documents or final orders for the certificate applications during our review."

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