Alleges

Energy Transfer Partners LP, the former partner with Enterprise Products Partners LP in a proposed oil pipeline from Cushing, OK, to Houston, is suing Enterprise and its new partner in a similar project, Enbridge Inc.

The Sierra Club alleges in a letter to the National Park Service (NPS) that Pennsylvania is violating federal law by allowing natural gas drilling on protected state park and forest land.

A business-labor coalition told an Oregon legislative committee Thursday it opposes a bill (HB 2015), which it alleges would prevent development of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the state. Energy Action Northwest said it is fighting for “responsible energy policy.”

An investigation of three May 16 natural gas explosions and a fire in McKinney, TX, by the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) alleges six violations by Atmos Energy Corp. and two by contractor M.J. Sheridan Inc., according to a report released last week.

The investigation of three May 16 natural gas explosions and a fire in McKinney, TX, by the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) alleges six violations by Atmos Energy Corp. and two by contractor M.J. Sheridan Inc., according to a report released Tuesday.

Facing a ballot measure by its opponents that it alleges is illegal, NorthernStar Natural Gas’s proposed Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal along the Columbia River in Oregon received county approval for upgrading its three-mile-long access road to the site as a last major local permitting milestone, the company announced. Bradwood Landing now looks to the final FERC environmental impact report expected around late June as its next major milestone, a Portland, OR-based spokesperson told NGI last Wednesday.

Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) on Tuesday called on Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta to respond to allegations contained in the latest tell-all book about the Bush administration that “al Qaeda operatives had been infiltrating Boston by coming in on LNG tankers from Algeria” apparently prior to the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.

A federal judge in Houston Friday was weighing a temporary restraining order request by Amalgamated Bank of New York that would freeze more than $1 billion allegedly gained by Enron Corp. executives and directors who allegedly deceived investors to boost the price of stock before selling millions of shares of the now bankrupt company in the past year.

While California’s independent grid operator, Cal-ISO, told FERCyesterday the state was overcharged as much as $6.2 billion forwholesale power bought over the last 11 months, Dynegy Inc.disputed an earlier presumption by FERC that it was among thesuppliers that were overcharging California buyers in January andFebruary.