Brunswick

Dominion Virginia Power began producing electricity Monday at a 1,358 MW natural gas-fired plant in Brunswick County, VA, the utility announced this week.

Dominion Virginia Power began producing electricity Monday at a 1,358 MW natural gas-fired plant in Brunswick County, VA, the utility announced this week.

Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) has approved a certificate of public convenience and necessity for Dominion Virginia Power’s proposed 1,588 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle electric generating facility in Greensville County, VA.

A three-member panel appointed in March by New Brunswick to study hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and determine whether it can be performed to the provincial government’s standards has, for the first time, asked for public comments on the practice.

A new path overseas is taking shape through Canada for shale gas from the United States, the National Energy Board (NEB) acknowledged in granting an Atlantic coast liquefied natural gas (LNG) trading license.

A path is developing on Canada’s Atlantic coast for shale production from the eastern United States to sail out onto international markets for liquefied natural gas (LNG).

A path is developing on Canada’s Atlantic coast for shale production from the eastern United States to sail out onto international markets for liquefied natural gas.

Liberal governments in charge of two Canadian provinces are taking two different paths on the issue of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), with New Brunswick announcing it would continue a moratorium against the practice for at least another year and Ontario declining to enact a similar ban.

A judge in New Brunswick has rejected an application for an injunction against Southwestern Energy Co. (SWN) filed by a First Nations tribe at the center of a violent protest against the company last month.