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While California’s response to global climate change is a major focus, energy policymaking in the state centers on efficiency and demand response, according to the latest update of the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) 2007 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR).

While California’s response to global climate change is a major focus, energy policymaking in the state centers on efficiency and demand response, according to the latest update of the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) 2007 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR).

Long-ago one of the nation’s centers for oil and natural gas production, Southern California, with today’s historically high oil and natural gas prices, is experiencing a resurgence of reworking some of its old wells, many of which are surrounded by housing and commercial development. Improved technology and the high wholesale prices have given the area’s wells a “new lease on life,” according to a report in Monday’s Los Angeles Times.

While the Mackenzie Gas Project struggles to make land access and benefits agreements with aboriginal centers along its pipeline route, regulators are doing their bit to prevent further delays by preventing the native relations sore spot from spreading.

While public attention centers on the Arctic, a dramaticdemonstration is under way of the ability of Canada’s near north todeliver new natural gas supplies on a large scale.