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The Dawson Creek Daily News newspaper Wednesday received a second letter linked to a string of natural gas pipeline bombings in the Dawson Creek, BC, area dating back to last fall. It gives EnCana Corp. a deadline for removing its oil and gas facilities.

As the result of a year-long investigation of a five-year period dating back to 2000, the consumer protection branch of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) earlier this month issued a recommendation that Pacific Gas and Electric Co. be required to refund $117 million to its customers and pay a $6.75 million fine for mishandling the delayed and/or estimated billing of tens of thousands of residential and business customers. The staff concluded that the PG&E utility “collected monies from customers in violation of two CPUC rules.”

Although an old dry gas field dating back to the 1930s, Rio Vista has stepped up its 130-well production in Northern California over the past seven years since Calpine Corp. acquired the majority of producing wells in the 3,000-acre field. But the company now is running into belated resistance to further gas development of the state’s largest dry gas field, which is located near the small town of Rio Vista, CA.

Although an old dry gas field dating back to the 1930s, Rio Vista has stepped up its 130-well production in Northern California over the past seven years since San Jose, CA-based power plant developer/operator Calpine Corp. acquired the majority of producing wells in the 3,000-acre field located near the small town of Rio Vista, CA. Although each side was well aware of the historic use of the property, Calpine is running into belated resistance to its plans to step up production from the state’s largest dry gas field.