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A made-in-Canada sales agency, led by a team with a blue-chip track record, has stepped forward with a vow to restore competition and choice to natural gas marketing by going back to basics of directly connecting producers and buyers.

Citing “inclement weather in the Gulf of Mexico,” Tennessee canceled the quarterly pigging of the Header and East Leg segments of the Blue Water System offshore Louisiana that had been Monday through Thursday this week (see Daily GPI, Sept. 6). The next quarterly pigging is scheduled for Nov. 11-14.

Agreeing that Georgia’s natural gas deregulation program is flawed but not foundering, a Blue Ribbon Natural Gas Task Force empowered by Gov. Roy Barnes recommended last week that the state not give up on the more than three year-old initiative. Instead, the group decided on a list of proposals to reform the program, including the reinstitution of a single regulated marketer.

Almost a month after its preliminary recommendations were agreed upon, the Blue Ribbon Natural Gas Task Force delivered to Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes last week a 35-page final report outlining its proposals for fixing the natural gas system in the state. As expected, the final report proposed the reinstallation of a regulated supplier into the current mix of unregulated retail marketers instead of returning to a monopoly structure (see NGI, Jan. 14).

Agreeing that Georgia’s natural gas deregulation program is flawed but not foundering, the Blue Ribbon Natural Gas Task Force empowered by Gov. Roy Barnes said it recommends that the state not give up on the more than three year-old initiative. Instead, the group decided on a list of proposals to reform the program, including the reinstitution of a single regulated marketer.

Almost a month after its preliminary recommendations were agreed upon, the Blue Ribbon Natural Gas Task Force delivered to Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes on Wednesday a 35-page final report outlining its proposals for fixing the natural gas system in the state. As expected, the final report proposed the reinstallation of a regulated supplier into the current mix of unregulated retail marketers instead of returning to a monopoly structure (see Daily GPI, Jan. 11).

A blue-ribbon team of veteran Canadian experts on natural gas supplies has set out to correct a starry-eyed vision of frontier resources that it says has periodically distorted North American energy policies and needs to be cleared up.

Tennessee delayed pigging operations on the Blue Water System,originally scheduled for Monday and today (see Daily GPI, March 6), tentatively until Thursday andFriday of this week. No service restrictions are expected, butproducers may experience higher than normal pressures.