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TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. has come up with a way to escape the cost and toll squeeze caused by excess capacity on its natural gas mainline — fill up the empty space with oil.

Overall transportation fatalities in the United States fell in 2003, but the number of deaths caused by explosions or other malfunctions on natural gas pipelines went in the opposite direction, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

Overall transportation fatalities in the United States fell in 2003, but the number of deaths caused by explosions or other malfunctions on natural gas pipelines went in the opposite direction, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

The rupture and subsequent explosion on TransCanada PipeLines’ mainline system in Canada in early 2002 was due to a host of factors that came together in a near “perfect storm,” causing “stress corrosion cracking to initiate and grow to failure,” according to a report by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) on the accident.

Higher energy prices in society are caused by well-funded, increasingly powerful environmental groups, and the energy industry needs to do a better and more comprehensive job of mobilizing its own supporters to counteract this trend, according to a Bellevue, WA-based author and official with the nonprofit Center for Defense of Free Enterprise.

Higher energy prices in society are caused by well-funded, increasingly powerful environmental groups, and the energy industry needs to do a better and more comprehensive job of mobilizing its own supporters to counteract this trend, according to a Bellevue, WA-based author and official with the nonprofit Center for Defense of Free Enterprise.

Prices rose mostly by double-digit amounts Thursday, but traders had trouble identifying what caused the rebound a day after the upward trend earlier in the week had come to a halt. Gains were fairly consistent throughout all regions in ranging from a little less than a dime to about 20 cents.

Commissioner Sharon Brown-Hruska of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) signaled earlier this month that the agency has found that market fundamentals, rather than trader wrongdoing, was behind the run-up in Nymex natural gas futures prices over the winter months.

Commissioner Sharon Brown-Hruska of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) signaled last week that the agency has found that market fundamentals, rather than trader wrongdoing, was behind the run-up in Nymex natural gas futures prices over the winter months.