Denied

FERC last Wednesday upheld an April finding that Washington state environmental regulators, by failing to act by the allotted deadlines, had waived the certification requirements under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) with respect to Georgia Strait Crossing Pipeline LP’s natural gas pipeline project in the Pacific Northwest.

FERC on Wednesday upheld an April finding that Washington state environmental regulators, by failing to act by the allotted deadlines, had waived the certification requirements under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) with respect to Georgia Strait Crossing Pipeline LP’s natural gas pipeline project in the Pacific Northwest.

FBI officials in Boston categorically denied Friday claims by former Bush administration counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke that the FBI failed to alert local authorities when it discovered in late 1999 that al Qaeda terrorists had been coming into Boston harbor aboard liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers from Algeria.

London-based Royal Dutch/Shell Group denied a published report Monday that it is considering hiring the former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman to help it deal with the complexities associated with the agency’s ongoing inquiry into the company’s overbooking of oil and natural gas reserves.

FERC last Thursday approved a series of settlement agreements previously hammered out between Commission staff and four power companies, as well as a city in California, resolving allegations that the power-related entities tried to game California’s electricity market in 2000-2001. Under the settlements, the power companies and the California city will pay a total of $141,834.

A FERC spokesman has denied allegations that FERC Chairman Pat Wood and Commissioner Nora M. Brownell during a conference call gave Wall Street analysts the heads up on how they intended to vote in pending cases involving manipulation of western energy markets. The agency quickly followed that up with an order Wednesday defending the two.

A Nymex gas futures trader on the floor of the exchange denied rumors last Wednesday that he walked away from the natural gas futures trading pit late last month with about $40 million in his pocket after monthly contract spreads (the price difference between monthly contracts) widened to unprecedented levels and the near-month contract soared to record heights.

A local Nymex futures trader denied rumors Wednesday that he walked away from the natural gas futures trading pit two weeks ago with about $40 million in his pocket after monthly contract spreads (the price difference between monthly contracts) widened to unprecedented levels and the near-month contract soared to record heights.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali has denied Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s request for a summary judgment against the alternative reorganization plan proposed by the California Public Utility Commission.