FERC has asked the secretaries of State and Defense Departments to favorably consider a presidential permit for Sonora Pipeline LLC, a subsidiary of Tidelands Oil & Gas, to construct bidirectional border-crossing pipeline facilities between the United States and Mexico.
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Nine Clean Coal, Coal Gasification Projects Get $1B in Tax Credits
In an effort to spur development of clean coal-fired power plants and coal gasification technologies, the U.S. Treasury and Energy departments (DOE) last week awarded $1 billion in federal tax credits to nine companies. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) authorized the incentives to help move advanced coal technologies into the marketplace.
Six Years After El Paso Blast, Safety Advocates Search for Answers
A New Mexico pipeline safety advocate has filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the departments of Justice and Transportation to find out the status of an enforcement inquiry into the fatal explosion on the El Paso Natural Gas pipeline in August 2000.
Six Years After El Paso Blast, Safety Advocates Search for Answers
A New Mexico pipeline safety advocate has filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the departments of Justice and Transportation to find out the status of the enforcement inquiry against El Paso Natural Gas stemming from the fatal explosion on the pipeline in August 2000.
DOE Phases Out Oil, Gas R&D in Budget; Interior Raises User Fees by $27M
The nation’s top three energy-related agencies, the departments of Energy, Interior and Transportation, shared in the general cutback for domestic spending in President Bush’s $2.57 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2006, which featured increased funding for the military and for international programs.
DOE Phases Out Oil, Gas R&D in Budget; Interior Raises Use Fees by $27M
The nation’s top three energy-related agencies, the departments of Energy, Interior and Transportation, shared in the general cutback for domestic spending in President Bush’s $2.57 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2006, which featured increased funding for the military and for international programs.
MMS Orders Producers to Pay Royalty Underpayments on Indian Lands
The Interior Departments’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) has ordered several oil and natural gas producers to pay about $2 million in additional royalties to American Indian tribes and individual Indian mineral owners for production on their lands in 2001.
MMS Orders Producers to Pay Royalty Underpayments on Indian Lands
The Interior Departments’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) has ordered several oil and natural gas producers to pay about $2 million in additional royalties to American Indian tribes and individual Indian mineral owners for production on their lands in 2001.
Two Senators Seek FTC Probe of Enron
On top of the ongoing investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and departments of Justice and Labor, two senators now have called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch a probe into Enron Corp. and its officers and directors to determine whether any federal fraud and consumer protection law violations and other irregularities occurred leading up to the collapse of the former energy giant.
FERC Rejects Chicken Little Y2K Plans
FERC said last week it has found Chicken Littles in the Y2Kplanning departments of several gas pipeline companies. TheCommission berated pipeline Y2K planners for crying “the sky isfalling” without any solid evidence that it is. To those pipelinesseeking a complete shut-down of multiple nomination periods justprior to and after Jan. 1, FERC explained that so far they have notprovided convincing arguments why such drastic methods would berequired.