Legal

A new proposal by Weaver’s Cove Energy LLC to use smaller tankers to transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) up the Taunton River in order to circumvent a legal barrier to the Fall River, MA, import terminal project is both “dumb” and “dangerous,” said Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), who last year erected the barrier that the company is now trying to bypass.

Despite the deluge of financial and legal pressures clouding Calpine Corp.’s future, the nation’s largest merchant electric generation plant operator is still actively pursuing the development of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Oregon at the mouth of the Columbia River along the Pacific Coast, according to a Calpine spokesperson who was interviewed Monday by Daily GPI.

Calling the California Attorney General’s lawsuit without merit and an outgrowth of legal threats, Sempra Energy late Wednesday accused the state’s chief law enforcement officer with filing a bogus lawsuit to force a settlement.

California’s Independent Energy Producers (IEP) have filed legal action with a state court seeking to block an initiative, which would effectively reregulate California’s electricity industry, from being considered by voters during a Nov. 8 special election.

Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch fired another shot last Thursday in the heated legal battle that has developed over KeySpan Energy’s plan to convert an existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) peak shaving facility (formerly Algonquin LNG) in Providence into a 525 MMcf/d LNG import terminal.

Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch fired another shot on Thursday in the heated legal battle that has developed over KeySpan Energy’s plan to convert an existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) peak shaving facility (formerly Algonquin LNG) in Providence into a 525 MMcf/d LNG import terminal.

The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) claimed a legal victory last week after a court dismissed antitrust charges by the Intercontinental Exchange regarding the use of Nymex settlement prices in ICE clearing procedures. But ICE also found something to like in the court decision, which left the key issues for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to decide.

With state officials squeezing the legal triggers on Enron out West last week, California’s two U.S. Senators applied political pressure in Washington, DC, in an effort to further dramatize the state’s long-standing claims for up to $9 billion in wholesale power cost refunds.

Calgary-based Canadian Superior Inc. said Wednesday it has retained legal counsel to “aggressively” deal with class action lawsuits “threatened or pending” that allege the company made materially false or misleading statements to the public regarding the costs and results of its Mariner drilling operations offshore Nova Scotia.