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CPUC Asks California Utility to Allow Smart Meter Opt-Outs

Following customer complaints of health problems, California regulators on Thursday asked Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) to allow its customers to opt-out of the ongoing effort to install smart natural gas and electric meters. Some customers have alleged that radio frequencies used by the meters are causing a wide range of ailments.

March 14, 2011

Pennsylvania Won’t Regulate Small Gathering Lines, for Now

An effort to give Pennsylvania regulators more oversight over intrastate pipelines likely won’t extend to gathering lines in remote corners of the state, but would instead create a registry of those rural pipelines.

March 2, 2011

Pine Prairie Gas Futures Contracts ‘New Direction’ For CME

In an effort to better serve its customers, CME Group is introducing three natural gas futures contracts physically delivered at Pine Prairie Energy Center (PPEC) in Evangeline Parish, LA, which is owned by PAA Natural Gas Storage LP.

January 31, 2011

CME Heads in ‘New Direction’ with Pine Prairie Gas Futures Contracts

In an effort to better serve its customers, CME Group is introducing three new natural gas futures contracts physically delivered at Pine Prairie Energy Center (PPEC) in Evangeline Parish, LA, which is owned by PAA Natural Gas Storage LP.

January 25, 2011

Ohio’s Incoming Governor Says Marcellus Shale Could Be ‘Godsend’

Ohio will devote time and effort to take part in the Marcellus Shale drilling boom, Gov.-elect John Kasich said last week.

January 4, 2011

Cabot, Pennsylvania Settle Gas Migration Lawsuit

Residents of Dimock Township in Susquehanna County, PA, whose drinking water supplies were contaminated by natural gas, are to receive a share of $4.1 million that Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. agreed to pay under a settlement negotiated with the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

December 17, 2010

Calais LNG’s Fate in Hands of Maine Regulators

The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (MBEP) is scheduled to vote Thursday on a motion to end Calais LNG’s effort to build a $1 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, import facility and pipeline project in Calais, ME.

December 15, 2010

Save The Bay Takes Weaver’s Cove Fight to Hess Shareholders

In an effort to undermine Hess Corp.’s long-standing plan for the Weaver’s Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Fall River, MA, Rhode Island-based Save The Bay is hoping to persuade the diversified energy giant’s investors from backing the project through an open letter. Weaver’s Cove Energy, a joint venture of Hess Corp. and Poten & Partners, said the letter is “factually incorrect” and is typical of the environmental group’s campaign to attack the project through the press.

November 22, 2010

Save The Bay Takes Weaver’s Cove Fight to Hess Shareholders

In an effort to undermine Hess Corp.’s long-standing plan for the Weaver’s Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Fall River, MA, Rhode Island-based Save The Bay is hoping to persuade the diversified energy giant’s investors from backing the project through an open letter. Weaver’s Cove Energy, a joint venture of Hess Corp. and Poten & Partners, said the letter is “factually incorrect” and is typical of the environmental group’s campaign to attack the project through the press.

November 17, 2010

New York County Weighing Marcellus Drilling Options

One New York county in the midst of the Marcellus Shale may be looking to promote natural gas drilling in an effort to regain jobs that have left the area since the Empire State instituted a de facto moratorium on drilling two years ago.

October 25, 2010
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