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FERC Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Michael J. Cianci Jr. has been tapped to hear the Section 5 complaint case in which Tuscarora Gas Transmission is accused of significantly overrecovering its cost of service, thus making its current transportation rates “unjust and unreasonable.”

The Allegheny County (PA) Council has scheduled a hearing for 5 p.m. EST Thursday in Pittsburgh to hear public comment regarding Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling within the county.

If the natural gas industry has its way, Gasland director Josh Fox won’t be “thanking the academy” for an Oscar on Feb. 27.

Arguments are scheduled Wednesday (Dec. 8) in a Alaska Superior Court to hear Senate Republican candidate Joe Miller’s lawsuit challenging the state of Alaska and the state’s Division of Election’s criteria for counting write-in ballots, which made incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) the apparent winner in the U.S. Senate elections last month.

Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) said it will hear final arguments beginning April 12, on the Mackenzie Gas Project, a 760-mile pipeline and related facilities that would carry gas from northern Canada.

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments next month in a case that could have far-reaching ramifications for the sanctity of electricity and natural gas contracts.

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments next month in a case that could have far-reaching ramifications for the sanctity of electricity and natural gas contracts.

Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) said this week it won’t hear final arguments for the long-delayed Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) proposal until at least next April, extending by another four months any decision on the C$16 billion natural gas pipeline.

Earnings report season is quickly approaching for the energy sector, but some natural gas-focused investors may look beyond 1Q2009 profits to hear what’s ahead in the oversupplied domestic markets. Some energy analysts don’t foresee gains in gas prices until 2010, and at least one analyst thinks it is an opportune time for the majors to build their portfolios both onshore and offshore in North America.