Disappointed

With particular ire toward an $11.3 million disallowance of natural gas costs, Spokane, WA-based Avista Corp. last Friday lashed out at the Idaho Public Utilities Commission for an interim order in Avista utilities’ electric and gas general rate case. The disallowance relates to gas purchased for its electric generation plants.

With particular ire toward an $11.3 million disallowance of natural gas costs, Spokane, WA-based Avista Corp. last Friday lashed out at the Idaho Public Utilities Commission for an interim order in Avista utilities’ electric and gas general rate case. The disallowance relates to gas purchased for its electric generation plants.

With particular ire toward an $11.3 million disallowance of natural gas costs, Spokane, WA-based Avista Corp. last Friday lashed out at the Idaho Public Utilities Commission for an interim order in Avista utilities’ electric and gas general rate case. The disallowance relates to gas purchased for its electric generation plants.

TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., disappointed but refusing to be discouraged after decades of trying, declared itself still ready to collaborate with any credible new contender to build the American half of the Alaska natural gas megaproject after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway withdrew its $6.4-billion entry (see Daily GPI, March 26).

Following Moody’s Investors Service’s announcement that it was placing the credit ratings of NiSource Inc. and its subsidiaries under review for possible downgrade, NiSource CEO Gary L. Neale fired back with a release expressing his disappointment at the action.

Following Moody’s Investors Service’s announcement that it was placing the credit ratings of NiSource Inc. and its subsidiaries under review for possible downgrade, NiSource CEO Gary L. Neale fired back with a release expressing his disappointment at the action.

Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY) said he is “disappointed” by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s decision not to investigate what he believes is an ever-widening discrepancy between the prices for natural gas that are paid to Wyoming producers and the higher costs for that same gas in out-of-state energy markets.

Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY) said he is “disappointed” by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s decision not to investigate what he believes is an ever-widening discrepancy between the prices for natural gas that are paid to Wyoming producers and the higher costs for that same gas in out-of-state energy markets.

While electric utility attorneys are disappointed in the decision last week by a federal appeals court supporting the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set stringent new emission control standards for particulate matter and ozone, they pointed out it will be several years, and possibly more, before rules can be promulgated and enforced.