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Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), a critical swing vote, Monday said he will support the conference report on the overhaul of the financial regulatory system when it comes up on the Senate floor.

More than 242,000 acres in the Vermillion Basin region of northwestern Colorado, considered to hold huge amounts of natural gas, would be off limits to drillers under a proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP), the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said late Tuesday.

As the federal government moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions, FERC should recognize the critical role of natural gas to provide baseload generation and complement variable energy resources (VER), such as wind and solar energy, because of its ability to quickly and reliably ramp up to meet electric customers’ demand when wind or sun energy is disrupted, said the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA).

As the federal government moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions, FERC should recognize the critical role of natural gas to provide baseload generation and complement variable energy resources (VER), such as wind and solar energy, because of its ability to quickly and reliably ramp up to meet electric customers’ demand when wind or sun energy is disrupted, said the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA).

Southern Natural Gas canceled Wednesday a Type 6 OFO for short imbalances.

Southern Natural Gas canceled Wednesday a Type 6 OFO for short imbalances.

Tennessee lifted Saturday a Critical Day 1 OFO for its farthest upstream Zone 0, and ended the same OFO for all other zones Sunday.

Tennessee will add a Critical Day 1 OFO in downstream Zones 4, 5 and 6 Saturday to the one it plans to implement Friday in upstream Zones 0, 1, L and 2 (see Daily GPI, Jan. 7). That will leave Zone 3 as the pipeline’s only segment not subject to an OFO.

Columbia Gas extended a “Critical Day” restriction on interruptible storage injections (see Daily GPI, Aug. 27) through the end of the month.