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After TXU’s decision to cancel plans for eight pulverized coal-fired power plants in Texas, analysts are wondering how many other proposed coal-fired power plants will be shot down in the nationwide environmental battle against dirty coal.

After TXU’s decision to cancel plans for eight pulverized coal-fired power plants in Texas, analysts are wondering how many other proposed coal-fired power plants will be shot down in the nationwide environmental battle against dirty coal.

A day after ExxonMobil confirmed that it will sell or cancel its Vista del Sol LNG import project near Corpus Christi, TX, (see Daily GPI, Aug. 22), BP said Tuesday it has put its Bay Crossing LNG project, planned for Pelican Island in Galveston, TX, indefinitely on hold.

Effective with Timely Cycle nominations Thursday, Dominion will cancel a limitation of secondary or interruptible capacity at Niagara Mohawk East Gate.

FERC last Wednesday granted a request by Tuscarora Gas Transmission to cancel the second phase of a planned pipeline expansion that was intended to serve a power generation plant proposed by Duke Energy. The pipeline asked the Commission to vacate the certificate order for this phase of the project after Duke Energy North America LLC placed on indefinite hold its plans for a 540 MW Washoe generating facility near Reno, NV.

FERC on Wednesday granted a request by Tuscarora Gas Transmission to cancel the second phase of a planned pipeline expansion that was intended to serve a power generation plant proposed by Duke Energy. The pipeline asked the Commission to vacate the certificate order for this phase of the project after Duke Energy North America LLC placed on indefinite hold its plans for a 540 MW Washoe generating facility near Reno, NV.

After closing below the $5.00 mark last Thursday for the first time since early January, natural gas futures traded quickly sideways Friday as neither bull nor bear could muster the buying or selling required to budge the market.

Texas Eastern will cancel Saturday the OFO that took effect March 1 (see Daily GPI, Feb. 26) requiring customers to withdraw gas from storage only after maximizing the use of mainline firm transportation. The OFO regarding storage inventory transfers issued Feb. 28 (see Daily GPI, March 3) remains in effect. “While storage deliverability relative to firm withdrawal rights is recovering, the fact remains that storage inventories are low and storage deliverability is a function, in part, of inventory levels. Accordingly Texas Eastern reminds all point operators and shippers of the need to limit ‘due pipeline’ imbalances so as not to unduly place transportation support demands on Texas Eastern’s storage fields,” the pipeline said Thursday.

Canada’s Stoney First Nation chiefs threatened Tuesday to stop renewing leases for oil and gas companies that operate on their lands unless a Canadian agency collects from the companies more than C$10 million (US$6.4 million) they allege their tribes are owed in royalties. The gas-rich fields located on the Stoney lands include Shell Canada’s Jumping Pound field and the Wildcat Hills field of Petro-Canada. Both companies said Tuesday they would pay their share of royalties, but want the government to resolve the issue.