Spurred by tensions between Russia and Ukraine, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday approved a modified bill to expedite the review of proposals to export liquefied domestic natural gas to the world. It is thought by backers that injecting U.S. gas into the global market would weaken gas-rich Russia’s influence in Europe.
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PA Attorney General Moving On Royalty Complaints Against Chesapeake
A top Republican state senator confirmed Thursday that the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office is reviewing landowner complaints about unfair post-production costs that Chesapeake Energy Corp. has allegedly been deducting from royalty checks.
March 14, 2014
West Virginia Lawmakers Move Toward More Waterway Protections
A bill making its way through the West Virginia House of Delegates would better protect public water supplies from industrial chemicals, including those in above-ground storage tanks like the one that leaked into the Elk River recently, affecting the water supplies of 300,000 West Virginians in nine counties for several weeks.
February 14, 2014
Industry Briefs
Magellan Midstream Partners LP plans to construct a new pipeline origin point at Barnhart, TX, to accept crude oil shipments on the partnership’s Longhorn pipeline. The new point will be 75 miles east of the pipeline’s Crane, TX, origin and is expected to begin receiving crude oil in early 2015. The project is expected to cost…
October 8, 2013
PUC Questions Closing Plants Instead of Switching to Natgas
Two coal-fired power plants owned by FirstEnergy in southwestern Pennsylvania are scheduled to be closed on Wednesday.
October 8, 2013
Murkowski Backs U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Agreement
At a Capitol Hill hearing Tuesday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) expressed support for approving a transboundary agreement between the United States and Mexico that would govern the development of oil and natural gas resources along the two countries’ maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).
October 2, 2013
Binz Asks Obama to Withdraw His Nomination to FERC
Amid controversy over his pro-renewable energy and anti-fossil fuel sentiments, former Colorado regulator Ron Binz has asked President Obama to withdraw his name from further consideration as a nominee for FERC chairman.
October 2, 2013
Binz’s Nomination at FERC in Trouble
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) Thursday said he would join Republicans in voting against former Colorado regulator Ron Binz for FERC chairman, which would sink the nomination if the rest of the votes in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee split along party lines.
September 20, 2013
House NatGas Caucus Supports States Rights for Natural Gas
The four co-chairs of the House of Representatives’ Natural Gas Caucus Wednesday had one message for the Obama administration: stay out of state regulators’ oil and natural gas activities.
September 19, 2013
Binz Fends Off Senate Critics; Supports Natural Gas
Former Colorado regulator Ron Binz, nominated for FERC chairman, said he was bullish on natural gas and expects applications for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals to proceed through the agency as usual.
September 18, 2013
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