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Louisiana parishes want a bigger share of the Haynesville Shale revenue pie, and they might get it if the state’s voters approve a measure on the statewide Nov. 2 ballot.

Louisiana parishes want a bigger share of the Haynesville Shale revenue pie, and they might get it if the state’s voters approve a measure on the statewide Nov. 2 ballot.

A Colorado ballot initiative that would remove a severance tax break for the energy industry would not, as critics have charged, increase residential natural gas prices nor would it push producers out of the state, according to a study by a Denver-based nonprofit group.

A Colorado ballot initiative that would remove a severance tax break for the energy industry would not, as critics have charged, increase residential natural gas prices nor would it push producers out of the state, according to a study by a Denver-based nonprofit group.

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.

Facing a ballot measure by its opponents that it’s alleging is illegal, NorthernStar Natural Gas’s proposed Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal along the Columbia River in Oregon received county approval Monday 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 (EIR) expected around late June as its next major milestone, a Portland, OR-based spokesperson told NGI Wednesday.

Often at odds in the past when utility takeover measures regularly appeared on the municipal ballot, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and the City/County of San Francisco Tuesday continued their newfound lovefest, joining hands in a new collaborative effort to deliver energy savings/efficiency programs to residential and commercial customers in the utility’s headquarters city. Running through next year, the three-year San Francisco Energy Watch effort will spend up to $11.5 million to achieve millions more dollars in savings, the utility said.

Royal Dutch/Shell Group shareholders easily approved all of the resolutions on the group’s ballot on Monday, but the voting indicated some dissatisfaction with current management.