Illinois Gas Wells Get the Boot: $664K Infrastructure Shuffle
Published Date: 7/15/2025
Notice
Summary
Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America wants to close two wells and update some equipment in Kankakee County, Illinois, spending about $664,000. This affects local energy infrastructure and could change how gas is stored and moved in the area. If you want to speak up or protest, you need to act before the deadline set by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 1 mixed.
Well Abandonment and Equipment Changes
On July 1, 2025, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America filed to plug and abandon two injection/withdrawal wells, remove associated surface facilities, abandon in-place portions of a related storage field lateral, remove a launcher at one well site, and install a new launcher at another site in Kankakee County, Illinois. The company estimates the project will cost $664,000.
Public Filing Deadline to Protest or Intervene
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission set a filing deadline of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on September 8, 2025 for protests, motions to intervene, and comments on the project. There is no fee to file, and submissions may be made via FERC eFiling or by paper mail using docket number CP25-518-000.
Automatic Authorization If No Timely Protest
If no protest is filed within the allowed time or if a protest is filed and then withdrawn within 30 days after the allowed time, the proposed activity will be deemed authorized effective the day after the time allowed for protest. If a protest is filed and not withdrawn within 30 days after the time allowed for filing a protest, the request will be considered by the Commission.
Intervenor Status Required to Seek Rehearing
Only persons who file a timely motion to intervene by the intervention deadline (September 8, 2025) have the right to request rehearing of Commission orders in this proceeding and to subsequently challenge those orders in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
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