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After months of extolling the potential of the Utica Shale to bring jobs and revenue to Quebec, provincial officials on Friday changed course, warning that natural gas development may not be allowed to proceed.

After months of extolling the potential of the Utica Shale to bring jobs and revenue to Quebec, provincial officials on Friday changed course, warning that natural gas development may not be allowed to proceed.

Pennsylvania hunters will likely find a changed woods this hunting season and may be surprised by the level of disturbance and activity on public lands in the north-central, northeastern and southwestern regions of the state, according to a wildlife expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.

Moody’s Investors Service last week changed its rating outlook for Houston’s EOG Resources Inc. to “negative” from “stable” because of the producer’s plans to aggressively transform itself from a natural gas-weighted producer to one more weighted to natural gas liquids (NGL) and oil.

Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday changed its rating outlook for Houston’s EOG Resources Inc. to “negative” from “stable” because of the producer’s plans to aggressively transform itself from a natural gas-weighted producer to one more weighted to natural gas liquids (NGL) and oil.

Natural gas and electric utility rates changed Monday for the state of Washington’s three major private-sector energy utilities: Avista Corp., Cascade Natural Gas Corp. and Puget Sound Energy (PSE). The changes had previously been approved by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC).

August natural gas futures gained ground Tuesday on the day prior to expiration. Traders see little in the way to suggest that any fundamentals have changed, and perceived the day’s activity as movement within a broad and uninspired trading range. At the close August natural gas rose 6.3 cents to $4.675 and September added 6.3 cents as well to $4.646. September crude oil tumbled $1.48 to $77.50/bbl.

A lot has changed over the last year, but one thing that’s stayed the same is a disparity between the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and the Federal Power Act (FPA) that prevents gas end-users from recouping transmission overcharges the way their counterparts do on the power side, according to Dave Ciarlone, manager of global energy services for aluminum producer Alcoa Inc.

A lot has changed over the last year, but one thing that’s stayed the same is a disparity between the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and the Federal Power Act (FPA) that prevents gas end-users from recouping transmission overcharges the way their counterparts do on the power side, according to Dave Ciarlone, manager of global energy services for aluminum producer Alcoa Inc.