Environmental

Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX) of the House Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee has stripped out contentious environmental and air quality provisions of his emergency legislation for California that came under attack from Democrats on the panel and state officials last week (see Daily GPI, May 2).

Southern LNG’s proposed enhancements to its Elba Islandvaporization facilities were granted preliminary approval onnon-environmental grounds by FERC last week. Southern plans toremove five existing vaporizers and replace them with moreefficient ones, resulting in 135 MMcf/d of increased send-outcapability.

Southern LNG’s proposed enhancements to its Elba Islandvaporization facilities were granted preliminary approval onnon-environmental grounds by FERC yesterday. Southern plans toremove five existing vaporizers and replace them with moreefficient ones, resulting in increased send-out capability to 675MMcf/d from 540 MMcf/d at a cost of $14 million. Southern’s onlycapacity holder, El Paso Merchant Energy, will pick up the tab.

FERC last week awarded a preliminary determination on non-environmental issues to Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) for its latest project to expand its existing 1.4 Bcf/d of transportation capacity by nearly one-third.

FERC yesterday awarded a preliminary determination onnon-environmental issues to Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) for itslatest project to expand its existing 1.4 Bcf/d of transportationcapacity by nearly one-third.

Natural gas is the common denominator that will “foster allreasonable wishes” of environmental groups and still support majorand sustained economic activity for the foreseeable future,according to a University of Houston economics professor who so farhas been on target in his predictions about energy.

Natural gas is the common denominator that will “foster allreasonable wishes” of environmental groups and still support majorand sustained economic activity for the foreseeable future,according to a University of Houston economics professor who so farhas been on target in his predictions about energy.

FERC issued a favorable environmental assessment on Central NewYork Oil & Gas Co.’s (CNYOG) Stagecoach Natural Gas StorageFacility, which is to be located near Binghamton, NY.

Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc. (EEA) released a reportyesterday warning that the North American gas market is on coursefor entering the winter heating season with dangerously low storagelevels.