Bone

Even as most of the country hunkered down under winter’s first real bone-chilling cold spurt, a number of declines in cash market point averages were sprinkled in with the gains in Tuesday deals for Wednesday delivery.

While the folks in Boston will remember the bone-chilling cold in mid-January that produced new gas demand records, this winter (December-February) will go down in history as being pretty average overall across the entire nation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

While the folks in Boston will remember the bone-chilling cold in mid-January that produced new gas demand records, this winter (December-February) will go down in history as being pretty average overall across the entire nation, according to a report Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating the actions of power suppliers during a recent bone-chilling freeze that blanketed the Northeast, saying he has information that some generators sold natural gas on the spot market that could have otherwise been used for their own power plants during the recent power supply crunch.

Responding to an April order requiring them to show how they have cleaned up their price-reporting practices, a number of energy companies last week told FERC they either have cut back their natural gas trading to bare-bones operations or completely pulled out of the business, fired and disciplined rogue traders, and bowed out of price reporting until reforms are enacted.

Responding to an April order to show how they have cleaned up their price-reporting practices, a number of energy companies told FERC they have either cut back their natural gas trading to bare-bones operations or completely pulled out of the business.

Water levels have increased in the Pacific Northwest, according to the Northwest River Forecast Center (NRFC), which last Thursday raised its forecast for the region in the midst of steady precipitation from an influx of storms over the past two weeks. However, in the Southwest, Lake Powell water levels are at record lows and unlikely to recover soon.