Convincing

The head of a major Pennsylvania water utility sees a two-fer in convincing Marcellus Shale operators to replace trucks with pipelines for fracking.

The Canadian Yukon province has joined an industry campaign to keep drilling open in the Beaufort Sea by convincing the National Energy Board (NEB) there will be no arctic repeat of last year’s Gulf of Mexico Macondo blowout.

The Canadian Yukon province has joined an industry campaign to keep drilling open in the Beaufort Sea by convincing the National Energy Board (NEB) there will be no arctic repeat of last year’s Gulf of Mexico Macondo blowout.

March natural gas futures continued Monday’s advance and finished on the plus side of the trading ledger, but observers say the market still has some convincing to do before any resumption of the earlier uptrend can continue.

March natural gas futures continued Monday’s advance and finished on the plus side of the trading ledger, but observers say the market still has some convincing to do before any resumption of the earlier uptrend can continue.

Natural gas use has to be part of any climate-friendly policy, but the industry so far has done a poor job of convincing a skeptical public that it can find, develop and deliver gas at a reasonable price without harming the environment, Questar Corp. CEO Keith O. Rattie said last week.

Natural gas use has to be part of any climate-friendly policy, but the industry so far has done a poor job of convincing a skeptical public that it can find, develop and deliver gas at a reasonable price without harming the environment, Questar Corp. CEO Keith O. Rattie said Tuesday.

Traders had suggestions but were unable to come up with a convincing explanation for why prices rose, often substantially, at most points Thursday after so much preceding bearishness about lack of heating load and a steep screen slide that extended into its third day.

While convincing and collecting thousands of power supply customers over the last two years as other power marketers exited the business, Constellation Energy is still struggling to impress the ratings agencies, which appear to be operating on the principle that “all trading is bad” and no participant in the deregulated market deserves an “A” rating.