Assuring

While a TransCanada Corp. executive was assuring Alaska legislators that the current price of natural gas was not going to undermine the multi-billion-dollar Alaska gas pipeline project, producers BP Energy and ConocoPhillips warned a meeting of Alaska industrials that a host of factors, including lower natural gas prices, could affect pipeline prospects.

Implementing a safe harbor provision assuring that those who report prices to published price surveys will not be prosecuted for honest mistakes would be best achieved through a policy statement, industry representatives told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last Wednesday at a workshop.

Implementing a safe harbor provision assuring that those who report prices to published price surveys will not be prosecuted for inadvertent mistakes would be best achieved through a policy statement, industry representatives told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Wednesday at a technical conference.

In light of the “tragic events” of last week and the “high state of alert the country is now experiencing,” the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday assured regulated energy companies that it will give the “highest priority” to applications that are filed to recover the costs associated with upgrading the security of their systems.

In light of the “tragic events” of this week and the “high state of alert the country is now experiencing,” the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today assured regulated energy companies that it will give the “highest priority” to applications that are filed to recover the costs associated with upgrading the security of their systems.