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As a group of protesters from Mount Vernon, NY, and several Millennium Pipeline Co. LP executives anxiously looked on last Wednesday, FERC voted out a “compromise” interim order that awarded conditional approval to Millennium to build all but the last two miles of the U.S. leg of the pipeline that would run through the city of Mount Vernon.

As the United States faces greater uncertainty from the Middle East in meeting its growing fuel demands, U.S. Ambassador Paul Celluci said that the country will rely even more on Canada to meet its “growing thirst” for oil, natural gas and electricity. Celluci’s comments followed claims this week by Alberta that it is winning more support from the energy industry to serve as a hub for “any” gas pipelines from the Arctic.

As the United States faces greater uncertainty from the Middle East in meeting its growing fuel demands, U.S. Ambassador Paul Celluci said that the country will rely even more on Canada to meet its “growing thirst” for oil, natural gas and electricity. Celluci’s comments followed claims this week by Alberta that it is winning more support from the energy industry to serve as a hub for “any” gas pipelines from the Arctic.

The Energy Information Administration is preparing take over the American Gas Association’s (AGA) storage survey at the end of the winter. But it first must get clearance from the Office of Management and Budget for the reporting burden placed on storage companies, EIA’s survey methodology and the budget requirements for conducting the survey. It also has to arrange the staffing and resources and perform an operational test before it can get a green light.

A Calgary judge on Thursday rejected a bid by Enron Canada, a unit of Enron Corp., for a court order to prevent contract cancellations by Canadian marketers and producers. The move effectively will push Enron Canada into insolvency and bankruptcy is expected.

The Energy Information Administration is preparing take over the American Gas Association’s (AGA) storage survey at the end of the winter. But it first must get clearance from the Office of Management and Budget for the reporting burden placed on storage companies, EIA’s survey methodology and the budget requirements for conducting the survey. It also has to arrange the staffing and resources and perform an operational test before it can get a green light.

The Energy Information Administration is preparing take over the American Gas Association’s (AGA) storage survey at the end of the winter. But it first must get clearance from the Office of Management and Budget for the reporting burden placed on storage companies, EIA’s survey methodology and the budget requirements for conducting the survey. It also has to arrange the staffing and resources and perform an operational test before it can get a green light.

Given the lack of widely agreed-to solutions and an increase in disagreements among parties, anticipation will be high and expectations low this week in California’s complicated political and regulatory energy landscape that promises to heat up with the return of the state legislature and a crucial business meeting of the state regulatory commission.

Pennsylvania faces the very real threat of being dethroned as the nation’s leading model for electricity choice because skyrocketing wholesale power prices are pushing state customers to abandon electric choice in favor of default providers, according to the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets. As Pennsylvania stumbles on the road to electric deregulation, Texas, Maine and New York are all making impressive strides in promoting sustainable competition among electricity providers, the center said.