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A perpetual thorn in the side of Canadian gas, oil, pipeline and power development and major stumbling block to the Mackenzie mega-Pipeline project has been pared down to a manageable issue by a landmark native rights decision from the Supreme Court of Canada.

A perpetual thorn in the side of Canadian gas, oil, pipeline and power development and major stumbling block to the Mackenzie mega-pipeline project has been pared down to a manageable issue by a landmark native rights decision from the Supreme Court of Canada.

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) said he supports Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) decision to block the nomination of Jack Lew for director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) until the moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has been lifted or significantly modified.

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Thursday announced that she will block the nomination of Jack Lew to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) until the moratorium on deepwater oil and natural gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has been lifted or significantly modified.

A federal judge in New Orleans Thursday denied the Obama administration’s request for a stay of the decision to block enforcement of the Interior Department’s sweeping moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) Wednesday introduced legislation that would block the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new requirement that companies disclose the impacts of climate change on their businesses.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) Wednesday introduced legislation that would block the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new requirement that companies disclose the impacts of climate change on their businesses.

FERC last Thursday upheld a prior order that approved, over the strong objections of Washington Gas Light (WGL), Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s (Transco) proposal to construct two bidirectional interconnections to receive regasified liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the proposed Elba Express pipeline system.

A deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM) sidetrack appraisal well south of the Lucius discovery well in Keathley Canyon Block 875 appears to confirm a “major discovery with substantial resource potential,” an executive with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said Wednesday.