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California regulators last week turned down an emergencysix-month provisional avoided-cost measure that would have frozenthe gas prices used by utilities in their formula for payingmust-take qualifying facility (QF) electricity generators.

California regulators Thursday turned down an emergencysix-month provisional avoided-cost measure that would have frozenthe gas prices used by utilities in their formula for payingmust-take qualifying facility (QF) electricity generators.

El Paso Natural Gas last week denied accusations of NorthwestPipeline that it has routinely violated the confirmation andscheduling deadlines established by the Gas Industry StandardsBoard (GISB).

El Paso Natural Gas last week denied accusations of NorthwestPipeline that it has routinely violated the confirmation andscheduling deadlines established by the Gas Industry StandardsBoard (GISB).

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week denied PublicService Co. of Colorado’s bid for a stay of the certificate orderauthorizing KN Wattenberg to construct and acquire facilities forits planned Front Runner pipeline. Some viewed this request byPublic Service, a sponsor of the rival Front Range pipeline, as anattempt to quash pipeline competition in the Front Range section ofColorado.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this week denied PublicService Co. of Colorado’s request to stay an order awarding KNWattenberg authorization to construct and acquire facilities forits planned Front Runner pipeline. Some view the request by PublicService, a sponsor of the rival Front Range pipeline, as an attemptto quash pipeline competition in the Front Range section ofColorado.

Southern LNG Inc. has launched a scathing denial of theallegations that it conducted an open season in secret in order toaward to an affiliate all the teminalling capacity in its liquefiednatural gas (LNG) facilities on Elba Island in Georgia. The companyis seeking to reactivate the facilities, which have been dormantsince the early 1980s.

Southern LNG Inc. last week launched a scathing denial of theallegations that it conducted an open season in secret in order toaward to an affiliate all the teminalling capacity in its liquefiednatural gas (LNG) facilities on Elba Island in Georgia. The companyis seeking to reactivate the facilities, which have been dormantsince the early 1980s.

The role the Natural Gas Supply Association “provides is unique,and our members haven’t given us any indication that they areanything but pleased,” said Rebecca McDonald, this year’s chair ofthe organization and the future senior vice president of global gasmarketing for BP-Amoco. McDonald was questioned by NGI aboutpersistent rumors that NGSA, which originally was created topromote the decontrol of natural gas, would be disbanded and itsfunctions rolled into the American Petroleum Institute. McDonaldsaid the two organizations address very different issues, with APIfocusing on upstream oil and gas and NGSA involved mainly indownstream activities. “NGSA has done a good job with a difficulttask.”