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Encana Corp.’s Deep Panuke natural gas platform offshore Nova Scotia restarted two weeks ago to take advantage of cooler weather in the Boston region, CEO Doug Suttles said Thursday.

ExxonMobil Corp. is blaming the news media and environmental activists for deliberately misleading the public about its climate research.

FERC Commissioner Philip Moeller whose term ends this year plans to resign from the regulatory agency at the end of the month, he said Tuesday.

Natural gas infrastructure and market dynamics are likely to change significantly, operators said Tuesday in Chicago, if east-to-west transportation projects continue to be built from the Marcellus and Utica shales to send gas to the Midwest, Canada and Gulf Coast markets.

Although several new ethane crackers and export facilities are on the horizon, Fitch Ratings said U.S. natural gas liquids (NGL) prices will remain weak for the rest of the year and into the medium term, but they could also get worse, in part due to oil and gas producers becoming more efficient with shale drilling.

Although several new ethane crackers and export facilities are on the horizon, Fitch Ratings said U.S. natural gas liquids (NGL) prices will remain weak for the rest of the year and into the medium term, but they could also get worse, in part due to oil and gas producers becoming more efficient with shale drilling.

A conservation group that represents several Western states and provinces said the number of greater sage grouse observed in the field has increased over the past two springs and that the total population of the birds is close to 425,000.

The El Nino event in the Pacific Ocean this year could be one of the strongest ever recorded and influence weather patterns across the United States well into 2016, according to forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center.

Entities controlled by activist investor Carl Icahn have taken an 8.2% stake in first-moving, yet so far profitless liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal developer Cheniere Energy Inc.