Dissatisfaction

Despite roiling global financial markets, federal regulatory delays in closing its joint venture with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), and dissatisfaction with the company’s current stock price, San Diego-based Sempra Energy expects to have faster earnings growth and more diversity in its operations over the next five years, CEO Donald Felsinger told the company’s annual analyst meeting in New York City Thursday.

Expressing strong dissatisfaction with what it considers California’s one-sided energy approach, the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) late last month unanimously voted to reject the proposed second Devers-to-Palo-Verde (DPV2) high-voltage interstate transmission line by Rosemead, CA-based Southern California Edison Co. Edison is the majority owner/operator of the existing high-voltage interstate line along the same route.

Key Democratic lawmakers, including Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, expressed deep dissatisfaction with the Senate Budget Committee’s approval Thursday of a provision authorizing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as part of the budget package for fiscal year 2007.

Two-thirds of polled Americans don’t believe Congress has done enough to adopt a comprehensive energy policy to meet the nation’s present and future energy needs, according to a public opinion survey released last Tuesday by the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth (AEEG).

Two-thirds of polled Americans don’t believe Congress has done enough to adopt a comprehensive energy policy to meet the nation’s present and future energy needs, according to a public opinion survey released Tuesday by the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth (AEEG).

Protestors who are writing to FERC to express theirdissatisfaction with pipeline projects are getting younger and morecolorful.