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Associated Industries of Florida (AIF) has requested that the inspector general of the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) investigate what AIF said are thousands of messages about official PSC business sent and received on Commissioner Nancy Argenziano’s private Blackberry.

Associated Industries of Florida (AIF) has requested that the inspector general of the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) investigate what AIF said are thousands of messages about official PSC business sent and received on Commissioner Nancy Argenziano’s private Blackberry.

Interior Department Acting Inspector General Mary L. Kendall has recommended stricter controls on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) auction process and tougher requirements for bidders to avoid a repeat of the scene last December where a bad-faith bidder disrupted a Utah auction to protest the impact of drilling on the environment (see NGI, Dec. 22, 2008).

Interior Department Acting Inspector General Mary L. Kendall has recommended stricter controls on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) auction process and tougher requirements for bidders to avoid a repeat of the scene last December where a bad-faith bidder disrupted a Utah auction to protest the impact of drilling on the environment (see Daily GPI, Dec. 22, 2008).

The Interior Department’s Inspector General’s (IG) Office is moving to establish a royalty oversight unit to ensure the adequate collection of revenues from oil and natural gas production on federal and Indian lands, IG Earl Devaney said last Tuesday.

The inspector general (IG) of the Department of Interior (DOI) last week issued a strongly worded report on the Minerals Management Service (MMS), noting that the agency displays a conflict of interest in its relationship with the energy industry and is running a flawed oil and natural gas royalty-in-kind (RIK) program.

The inspector general (IG) of the Department of Interior (DOI) issued a strongly worded report on the Minerals Management Service (MMS) late Tuesday, noting that the agency displays a conflict of interest in its relationship with the energy industry and is running a flawed oil and natural gas royalty-in-kind (RIK) program.

A preliminary vote tabulation prepared by an independent inspector has affirmed that shareholders voted to elect all 12 of El Paso Corp.’s board of director nominees at the annual meeting in June. On the day of the annual meeting, Ronald Kuehn Jr., El Paso’s interim CEO, announced that the board had been elected in a close vote (see Daily GPI, June 18).

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) inspector general has agreed to conduct a “preliminary inquiry” into allegations that FERC Chairman Pat Wood and Commissioner Nora M. Brownell gave advance notice to Wall Street analysts of how they intended to vote in pending high-profile cases involving manipulation of western energy markets, according to Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA).