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Petro-Canada has won the latest round in a continuing drive by Canadian natural gas producers to foster a competitive market in pipeline services. The National Energy Board (NEB) granted Petro-Canada approval to lay a bypass, titled the Medicine Hat Pipeline, past southeastern Alberta facilities of TransCanada Pipelines Ltd.’s Nova Gas Transmission. The project also detours around earlier bypass lines built in the prolific production region by Alberta Energy Co (AEC).

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.

Hoping to foster a more robust wholesale power market, AmericanElectric Power (AEP), Carolina Power & Light (CP&L), DukeEnergy and Unicom Corp. are launching an independent,Internet-based electric transmission business-to-business exchangethis fall that is expected to offer a single portal for arrangingtransmission capacity. Still to come are the consortium’s serviceofferings and the type of technology it will use.

Hoping to foster a more robust wholesale power market, AmericanElectric Power (AEP), Carolina Power & Light (CP&L), DukeEnergy and Unicom Corp. are launching an independent,Internet-based electric transmission business-to-business exchangethis fall that is expected to offer a single portal for arrangingtransmission capacity. Still to come are the consortium’s serviceofferings and the type of technology it will use.