Commission

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) unveiled a proposed “One Process/One Permit” (OPOP) program on Friday, designed to promote efficiency and cooperation between the commission and the regulatory agencies of its four member states.

Excelerate Energy LP affiliates have asked FERC to set aside consideration of their proposed floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal off the Texas coast because the global oil price crash has upended the economics of the project, which could have been the nation’s first floating LNG export terminal.

Two opponents of the FERC-approved Dominion Cove Point LNG LP export project have asked the Commission to stay work on the project while it considers their rehearing request, saying that by delaying action on rehearing they are blocking a court appeal.

Bowing to pressure from its critics, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) on Monday offered more emails containing questionable communications between some of its now-terminated executives and state regulators. It also promised to turn over during the first quarter all pertinent emails since 2010.

Before a standing-room-only crowd heaped praise on California’s outgoing chief regulator, Michael Peevey, two of his staunchest critics held a press conference outside the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) building Thursday in San Francisco, blasting Peevey and calling for legislative reforms at the CPUC that he headed for an unprecedented 12 years.

Quebec’s environmental review board says shale gas development and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) aren’t worth the risk because they don’t outweigh the financial gain from royalties, but it hinted that drilling is desirable once the government and industry build trust with the province’s citizens.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) said it is moving forward with the second phase of its investigation into the competitiveness of the state’s retail natural gas market.

Sunoco Logistics Partners LP has been dealt an early setback in a bid to earn the status of a public utility corporation, which would exempt its Mariner East pipeline from local zoning ordinances.

LNG Development Co. LLC (Oregon LNG) on Thursday got a conditional OK from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to export liquefied domestic natural gas to non-free trade agreement countries (FTA).