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On the second leg of a four-city tour to hear from stakeholders as an Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) energy policy is crafted, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Wednesday faced a crowd in New Orleans that was decidedly more friendly to oil and natural gas. Gulf Coast congressional members and industry representatives said the Obama administration’s plans to move toward renewables is a solid idea, but conventional gas and oil production remains paramount to domestic energy security.

While the natural gas industry had braced itself for a bearish storage withdrawal for the week ended March 20, it was not prepared to hear of the year’s first injection when the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) natural gas storage report was released Thursday morning. After the EIA reported that 3 Bcf was added to underground inventories, natural gas futures dropped more than 30 cents in Thursday morning trade and ended up closing the regular session at $3.947, down 38.2 cents from Wednesday’s finish.

A Senate subcommittee is scheduled to hear testimony Wednesday on two proposed bills that would require the administrator of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to develop a plan to collect information on the ownership of all commercially held oil and natural gas inventories in the country, and would give FERC cease-and-desist authority in natural gas and electricity markets.

The U.S. Supreme Court last Monday refused to hear an appeal of a lower court’s decision that let stand Connecticut’s denial of a water quality permit for the proposed Connecticut-to-Long Island Islander East Pipeline. While the “legal route for this project has ended,” the sponsors plan to look at possible alternatives, a Spectra Energy Corp. spokeswoman said.

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to hear an appeal of a lower court’s decision that let stand Connecticut’s denial of a water quality permit for the proposed Connecticut-to-Long Island Islander East Pipeline. While the “legal route for this project has ended,” the sponsors plan to look at possible alternatives, a Spectra Energy Corp. spokeswoman said.

County officials ran out of time last Monday to hear from all the citizens who wanted to say something about NorthernStar Natural Gas’ proposed Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal along the Columbia River in Oregon, so the public hearing will be continued on Nov. 19. Clatsop County Commissioners are weighing whether to grant NorthernStar zoning changes for the project.

The Supreme Court on Nov. 27 will hear oral arguments from attorneys for New Jersey and Delaware over a jurisdictional dispute involving a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal along the Delaware River in Logan Township, NJ.

The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear oral arguments from attorneys for New Jersey and Delaware over a jurisdictional dispute involving a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal along the Delaware River in Logan Township, NJ.

The U.S. Supreme Court last Tuesday said it would hear two cases in which a Nevada utility and Pacific Northwest utility district seek to terminate above-market power contracts that were signed during the western energy market meltdown in 2000-2001.