{"id":"ferc-franklin-farms-gas-pipeline-review-schedule-oct28-2026","canonicalSlug":"ferc-franklin-farms-gas-pipeline-review-schedule-oct28-2026","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/ferc-franklin-farms-gas-pipeline-review-schedule-oct28-2026","language":"en","title":"FERC schedules Franklin Farms gas pipeline environmental review","summary":"The proposed Louisiana facilities would serve Entergy and an AI data-centre campus, subject to regulatory review.","body":["A FERC notice published in the Federal Register on 28 October sets a timetable for the environmental assessment of ETC Tiger Pipeline’s proposed Franklin Farms project in Louisiana. The planned assessment is due on 8 January 2027, with a 30-day comment period. The notice is dated 23 October, preceding its Federal Register publication.","The proposal would provide Entergy Louisiana with 250,000 dekatherms per day of firm mainline transportation capacity and one million dekatherms per day on a new lateral associated with an artificial intelligence data-centre campus in Richland Parish. These are proposed transportation capacities, rather than measured gas consumption or electricity-generation output.","The facilities include approximately 13.2 miles of new 36-inch pipeline, a further 1.75 miles of 20-inch lateral, meter stations, an interconnection and related equipment. The schedule identifies 8 April 2027 as the 90-day federal authorisation decision deadline for relevant other agencies, subject to the conditions described in the notice. It is not a guaranteed project approval date.","Comments already received raise issues including water resources, wetlands, wildlife, air quality, noise, geological hazards and potential consumer energy costs. FERC says substantive comments will be addressed in the assessment. The notice advances the review timetable; it does not grant construction authority or establish that the pipeline’s environmental impacts have already been resolved."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"FERC schedules Franklin Farms gas pipeline environmental review\n\nThe proposed Louisiana facilities would serve Entergy and an AI data-centre campus, subject to regulatory review.\n\nA FERC notice published in the Federal Register on 28 October sets a timetable for the environmental assessment of ETC Tiger Pipeline’s proposed Franklin Farms project in Louisiana. The planned assessment is due on 8 January 2027, with a 30-day comment period. The notice is dated 23 October, preceding its Federal Register publication.\n\nThe proposal would provide Entergy Louisiana with 250,000 dekatherms per day of firm mainline transportation capacity and one million dekatherms per day on a new lateral associated with an artificial intelligence data-centre campus in Richland Parish. These are proposed transportation capacities, rather than measured gas consumption or electricity-generation output.\n\nThe facilities include approximately 13.2 miles of new 36-inch pipeline, a further 1.75 miles of 20-inch lateral, meter stations, an interconnection and related equipment. The schedule identifies 8 April 2027 as the 90-day federal authorisation decision deadline for relevant other agencies, subject to the conditions described in the notice. It is not a guaranteed project approval date.\n\nComments already received raise issues including water resources, wetlands, wildlife, air quality, noise, geological hazards and potential consumer energy costs. FERC says substantive comments will be addressed in the assessment. The notice advances the review timetable; it does not grant construction authority or establish that the pipeline’s environmental impacts have already been resolved.","category":"energy","region":"world","topics":["gas","power","ai"],"eventDate":"2026-10-23","eventDateBasis":"source-event-or-period","publishedAt":"2026-10-28T16:29:35Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-28T16:29:35Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-28T16:29:19Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-28","translatedAt":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-10-28/html/2026-21989.htm","name":"Federal Energy Regulatory Commission / Federal Register","checkedAt":"2026-10-28","publishedAt":"2026-10-28"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/ferc-franklin-farms-gas-pipeline-review-schedule-oct28-2026","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/ferc-franklin-farms-gas-pipeline-review-schedule-oct28-2026","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/ferc-franklin-farms-gas-pipeline-review-schedule-oct28-2026","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/ferc-franklin-farms-gas-pipeline-review-schedule-oct28-2026","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/ferc-franklin-farms-gas-pipeline-review-schedule-oct28-2026","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/ferc-franklin-farms-gas-pipeline-review-schedule-oct28-2026","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/ferc-franklin-farms-gas-pipeline-review-schedule-oct28-2026"},"corrections":[],"locations":[],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["policy-update"],"geographies":[{"role":"economic-scope","countryCode":"US","subdivisionCode":null}],"evidenceBasis":["reported-observation","plan"],"measurementPeriod":null}}