Controversy

A controversy over possible falsified climate change reports has been growing in England and the United States as world leaders, including President Obama, prepare to attend the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in Copenhagen Dec. 7-18.

A private opinion poll and mailing among voters in an upcoming county ballot referendum has sparked a controversy in Oregon aimed at NorthernStar Natural Gas and its proposed Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal along the Oregon side of the Columbia River a few miles from where the river and Pacific Ocean meet. Part of the proposed project would include a natural gas transmission pipeline to take the regasified LNG supplies about 125 miles east to major transmission pipelines in the load center in and around Portland and the Willamette Valley.

Controversy over liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal proposals in Oregon is one impetus behind a Congressional move Monday to rescind FERC’s jurisdiction over LNG facility siting. Gov. Ted Kulongoski has lawyers looking at the state’s rights to withhold permits for federally approved projects with which Oregon disagrees.

Faulty wireless meter-reading transponders are the source of a controversy brewing in Utah between Questar Gas and its customers and advocacy groups as the utility attempts to back-bill approximately 500 of its customers nearly $500,000.

Faulty wireless meter-reading transponders are the source of a controversy brewing in Utah between Questar Gas and its customers and advocacy groups as the utility attempts to back-bill approximately 500 of its customers nearly $500,000.

Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal is stepping into another energy development controversy in his state, this time taking to task a small exploratory natural gas drilling project planned by Devon Energy Corp.

Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal is stepping into another energy development controversy in his state, this time taking to task a small exploratory natural gas drilling project planned by Devon Energy Corp.

After more than three years of controversy, Shell Oil Co. dropped plans last week to build its Gulf Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, which was to be located about 38 miles offshore Louisiana. Gulf Landing, the first proposed Shell-operated LNG terminal in the United States, already had been licensed and was in the early stages of development.

After more than three years of controversy, Shell Oil Co. has dropped plans to build its Gulf Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, which was to be located about 38 miles offshore Louisiana.