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The Nova Scotian government gave EnCana Corp. the brush off late Thursday, telling the energy giant it does not want to pay any of the costs for a proposed pipeline to carry natural gas from EnCana’s on-and-off-again offshore Deep Panuke project. EnCana had offered the province the opportunity to take an ownership stake. The offer was required under Canadian law.

Still three months before it makes an official general rate case filing, Sempra Energy’s San Diego Gas and Electric Co. is sparring a major utility consumer group over its plans to file for a $250.4 million increase in its base annual revenues. The utility notified the California Public Utilities Commission on Aug. 1 of its intention to file a general rate case by Dec.1 with an effective date in 2008.

In preparation for a filing to FERC this fall, Guardian Pipeline, LLC is holding a series of four open houses this week along the proposed route for its 110-mile, $220-240 million extension of an existing Illinois-Wisconsin line to the Green Bay, WI, area. The meetings started Monday in Green Bay and end Thursday in Whitewater.

Apparently environmentalists aren’t the only ones filing lawsuits in the Rocky Mountain West. Four gas producers are suing Montana in an effort to overturn water-quality standards that impose what the producers say are “excessive” requirements on the quality of water exiting coalbed methane (CBM) development areas in the Powder River Basin.

Apparently environmentalists aren’t the only ones filing lawsuits in the Rocky Mountain West. Four gas producers are suing Montana in an effort to overturn water-quality standards that impose what the producers say are “excessive” requirements on the quality of water exiting coalbed methane (CBM) development areas in the Powder River Basin.

One of the bit players in the Enron Corp. melodrama was sentenced to two years probation last week for filing false income tax returns. Lawrence Lawyer, 38, who had once worked for Enron Broadband Services, faced up to three years in prison for failing to report $79,469 to the Internal Revenue Service. Lawyer reportedly received the money over four years beginning in 1997 from ex-Enron executive Michael Kopper in what the prosecutors had called a kickback scheme related to RADR, one of Enron’s dubious special purpose entities.

One of the bit players in the Enron Corp. melodrama was sentenced to two years probation on Monday for filing false income tax returns. Lawrence Lawyer, 38, who had once worked for Enron Broadband Services, faced up to three years in prison for failing to report $79,469 to the Internal Revenue Service.

FERC last Tuesday granted the request of Rockies Express Pipeline LLC to begin the pre-filing process for the third leg of a $4 billion pipeline project that would deliver Rocky Mountain supplies to markets in the Midwest and East.

FERC on Tuesday granted the request of Rockies Express Pipeline LLC to begin the pre-filing process for the third leg of a $4 billion pipeline project that would deliver Rocky Mountain supplies to markets in the Midwest and East.