The Bush administration “strongly supports” measures to provide greater regulatory certainty for transmission expansion, including provisions included in a House-passed energy bill providing for last-resort federal siting authority for high-priority transmission lines and the coordination and streamlining of transmission permitting activities across federal lands, a top Department of Energy (DOE) official told a Senate hearing last Wednesday.
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NEB Focuses on Specific Enviro Mitigation Measures in Approving Georgia Strait Pipeline
A test case has told the natural gas industry it can venture offshore of Canada’s west coast – if it is willing to wade through seas of environmental protest and local political resistance in British Columbia.
NEB Focuses on Specific Mitigation Measures for Georgia Strait Pipeline
A test case has told the natural gas industry it can venture offshore of Canada’s west coast — if it is willing to wade through seas of environmental protest and local political resistance in British Columbia.
EPSA Exec: Short-Term Mitigation Eliminating Power Price Signals
Short-term mitigation measures implemented by FERC in U.S. power markets have resulted in the elimination of price signals in certain parts of the country and have set in motion the “ultimate death spiral” by mitigating below the price of entry, Julie Simon, vice president for policy at the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA), told a power industry conference last Thursday.
House-Senate Conferees Approve Alaska Pipe Measures, Restrict Route Options
The House-Senate Energy Conference Committee approved some key provisions last week that pave the way for an Alaskan natural gas pipeline to be built, but one item prohibits a northern pipeline route across the Beaufort Sea and ultimately down the Mackenzie River in Canada. A proposal sponsored by Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-AK) and approved by the committee will require that the pipeline be built along the Alaska Highway south through the Railbelt and the Yukon to reach the lower 48 states.
House-Senate Conferees Approve Alaska Pipe Measures, Restrict Route Options
The House-Senate Energy Conference Committee approved some key provisions that pave the way for an Alaskan natural gas pipeline to be built, but one item prohibits a northern pipeline route across the Beaufort Sea and ultimately down the Mackenzie River in Canada. A proposal sponsored by Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-AK) and approved by the committee will require that the pipeline be built along the Alaska Highway south through the Railbelt and the Yukon to reach the lower 48 states.
MMS Identifies Proposed Offshore Lease Sales for Eastern Gulf
Proposals, alternatives and mitigating measures covering two proposed offshore oil and natural gas lease sales of 1.5 million acres in the eastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) have been identified by the Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS). The two proposed sales under consideration are included in the MMS 2002-2007 oil and gas leasing program. Sale 189 is tentatively scheduled for December 2003, and Sale 197 is proposed for March 2005.
MMS Identifies Proposed Offshore Lease Sales for Eastern Gulf
Proposals, alternatives and mitigating measures covering two proposed offshore oil and natural gas lease sales of 1.5 million acres in the eastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) have been identified by the Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS). The two proposed sales under consideration are included in the MMS 2002-2007 oil and gas leasing program. Sale 189 is tentatively scheduled for December 2003, and Sale 197 is proposed for March 2005.
Wood Keeps Lifting of Price Caps in Mind with CA Trip
With FERC-ordered mitigation measures on wholesale power prices in the western part of the country set to expire later this year, Commission Chairman Pat Wood on Thursday disclosed that he’s traveling to California this week to, among other things, receive assurances that the region’s market rules and infrastructure are on enough of a solid footing that those caps can be lifted when they expire at the end of September.
Pipeline Safety Bill Includes New Security Measures
Legislation to reauthorize the Office of Pipeline Safety and enhance pipeline security and safety in light of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was introduced in the House of Representatives on Thursday by the leaderships of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee.