“Customers who rely on the STL Pipeline need assurances this critical infrastructure can continue to deliver reliable and affordable energy supply,” Smith said in the statement. Louis area and helped prevent outages during severe winter weather that forced blackouts in Kansas City and wreaked havoc in Texas. Spire has said repeatedly that the pipeline increases reliability in the St. He said it “reinforces the urgency” of Spire’s application with FERC to keep the pipeline operating.
Scott Smith, president of the pipeline, said in a statement he was disappointed by the court’s denial of Spire’s rehearing petition. “FERC has the authority and fact-finding tools to craft a remedy that fulfills the need for reliable service while safeguarding other public interests.” EDF filed the challenge to the Spire STL pipeline that led to the court ruling. “The court has appropriately rejected the request to revisit its initial decision,” Natalie Karas, senior director and lead counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund, said in a press release Tuesday. Spire spokesman Jason Merrill said the company would continue to pursue all its legal and regulatory options. Spire filed for emergency authorization from FERC to keep the pipeline in operation and requested that a panel of the U.S. The court said regulators “failed to consider evidence of self-dealing” by Spire in building the pipeline. It was first granted approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 2018.īut it faces a ruling from a federal appeals court panel, issued in June, saying FERC improperly granted the pipeline approval.
The Spire STL Pipeline, an affiliate of Spire Missouri, is a 65-mile gas pipeline from Illinois into Missouri that has been in operation since 2019. And they contend the company hasn’t provided enough information to determine whether it can supply sufficient natural gas this winter. Louis region.”Įnvironmental groups have said in regulatory filings that Spire created its own crisis by building the pipeline even as it was being challenged legally. Louis after a federal appeals court declined to reconsider a previous decision Tuesday.įollowing the denial, the natural gas company argued it’s even more urgent that federal energy regulators grant it temporary approval to keep operating the pipeline to avoid “significant implications for the health and safety, property and economic prosperity of the St. The Spire STL Pipeline is running out of options to continue operating its natural gas pipeline near St.
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