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A Pennsylvania Senate committee moved Marcellus Shale impact fee legislation forward on Wednesday, but observers suggest that the move is mainly procedural and say there is still much work to be done.

A judge in Pennsylvania has denied a request by several Dimock Township families to force Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. to continue delivering potable water to their homes.

Mexico will invest $10.4 billion to build more than 2,800 miles of natural gas pipelines and local distribution networks by 2018, a nearly 40% increase compared with the country’s current pipeline network, President Felipe Calderon said.

Mexico will invest $10.4 billion to build more than 2,800 miles of natural gas pipelines and local distribution networks by 2018, a nearly 40% increase compared with the country’s current pipeline network, President Felipe Calderon said.

Pennsylvania lawmakers have restarted discussions about imposing an impact fee on natural gas operators by removing the fee from legislation introduced earlier this year.

More than 35,000 manufacturing jobs could be created in Louisiana thanks to affordable supplies of natural gas from shale plays, American Chemistry Council (ACC) CEO Cal Dooley said.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has granted Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. permission to discontinue potable water deliveries to several Dimock Township residents by Nov. 30.

A group of Pennsylvania state lawmakers is proposing an impact fee on Marcellus Shale wells based upon the actual damage caused by natural gas operations in the state.

Julie Dill, who is currently president of Union Gas, Spectra Energy Corp.’s Ontario-based local distribution company, on Jan. 1 will become president and CEO of Spectra Energy Partners, the company’s master limited partnership, and will also assume the role of group vice president of strategy for Spectra Energy Corp., the Houston-based company said. Current Spectra Energy Partners president and CEO Greg Rizzo will continue in his other primary role as group vice president of regulatory affairs and will become the company’s key liaison with the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America. Also effective at the beginning of the year, Steve Baker, currently vice president and treasurer, Spectra Energy Corp., will become president of Union Gas; Guy Buckley, currently group vice president for corporate development and Strategy, Spectra Energy Corp., will become vice president and treasurer of Spectra Energy Corp; Sabra Harrington, currently vice president and controller, Spectra Energy Corp., will become vice president of risk management and financial planning, Spectra Energy Corp., and Allen Capps, currently vice president of business development, Union Gas, will become vice president and controller, Spectra Energy Corp.