An outline of a video interview - http://bit.ly/1g351NK- where BLP planning law experts Tim Smith and Tim Pugh look at key issues underpinning the consenting of gas storage projects under the new UK planning regime.

1. Expert Legal Insight from:
Tim Pugh Tim Smith
Consenting gas storage projects under the new UK
planning regime
This article is supported by a video posted on BLP Law’s blog.
The security of natural gas supply is a nationally significant issue in the UK, as it
is in other countries, and the need for adequate gas storage is a central
factor to that requirement. In the above mentioned video interview, BLP
partners and planning law experts Tim Smith and Tim Pugh provide an
overview of the key issues underpinning the consenting of gas storage
projects under the new UK planning regime. They provide answers to the
following questions:
 What scale of gas storage projects qualify for Development Consent
Orders (DCOs) under the National Significant Infrastructure Project
(NSIP) planning regime?
 What are some of the primary differences in how applicants achieve
consent under NSIP versus the mainstream planning process?
 What are some of the key issues that clients need to consider or
prepare for when they are approaching consenting under NSIP?
 Could you elaborate on the determination process relating to NSIPs,
and some of the issues arising from that process?

2.  What are some of the environmental or human rights issues that
companies seeking consents can face when seeking planning
consents for gas storage projects?
About BLP Law
Whilst demand for energy and natural
resources continues to grow, creating
great opportunity for the sector, a
range of economic, political,
commercial and physical or
technological issues create sources of
risk that require successful resolution.
BLP can help you provide practical
legal solutions.
Energy is a core area of focus for BLP, whose name can be mentioned along
with top energy law firms. Our oil and gas lawyers are highly skilled at helping
clients across the energy and natural resources sector to take advantage of
opportunities, overcome challenges and protect their interests.
Over 150 clients, including energy and natural resources companies, financial
institutions, investors and service providers, rely on our lawyers’ experience
and ability to offer advice across the full spectrum of the energy and natural
resources industry. They have entrusted us to do that globally, providing legal
solutions in more than 40 countries.