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As part of the six-week public comment period on a recently released favorable draft environmental impact assessment, local residents along the Southern California coast, about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles turned out last week (Nov. 30-Dec. 3) at local meetings hosted by the city governments to express their views on the proposal of Australian resources giant BHP Billiton to develop an offshore liquefied natural gas receiving terminal. Despite the developer’s promise of $25 million in annual economic benefits with no safety/environmental risks, most of the residents’ views were negative.

As part of the six-week public comment period on a recently released favorable draft environmental impact assessment, local residents along the Southern California coast, about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles turned out last week (Nov. 30-Dec. 3) at local meetings hosted by the city governments to express their views on the proposal of Australian resources giant BHP Billiton to develop an offshore liquefied natural gas receiving terminal. Despite the developer’s promise of $25 million in annual economic benefits with no safety/environmental risks, most of the residents’ views were negative.

FERC on Tuesday issued a favorable draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) to KeySpan LNG to convert an existing storage terminal in Rhode Island to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal and for Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC to build a small connecting pipeline to the proposed facility.

FERC on Tuesday issued a favorable draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) to KeySpan LNG to convert an existing storage terminal in Rhode Island to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal and for Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC to build a small connecting pipeline to the proposed facility.

The industrial sector’s natural gas demand is not expected to rebound to favorable 2000 levels until about 2017, even though gas prices are likely to begin easing up after 2006, according to a new report issued by Energy Ventures Analysis Inc. (EVA).

The industrial sector’s natural gas demand is not expected to rebound to favorable 2000 levels until about 2017, even though gas prices are likely to begin easing up after 2006, according to a new report issued by Energy Ventures Analysis Inc. (EVA).

FERC closed out the last week in July before its August hiatus with the release late Friday of a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) that would allow construction of the controversial 4.4 Bcf capacity Weaver’s Cove LNG receiving terminal near Fall River, MA, conditioned on certain environmental mitigation and safety requirements (CP04-36).

FERC closed out the last week in July before its August hiatus with the release late Friday of a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) that would allow construction of the controversial 4.4 Bcf capacity Weaver’s Cove LNG receiving terminal near Fall River, MA, conditioned on certain environmental mitigation and safety requirements (CP04-36).

Enron Corp. said a vote of its creditors on the plan for the corporation and its affiliates to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy was overwhelmingly favorable. The company filed the certification of the creditors’ vote with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Thursday.