Meetings

Following five years of study and analysis, including 14 public meetings, the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) has been issued for the 125,000-acre Northern San Juan Basin Coal Bed Methane Project in Colorado by the San Juan Public Lands Center, which is a combination of the Bureau of Land Management and the San Juan National Forest.

Following five years of study and analysis, including 14 public meetings, the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) has been issued for the 125,000-acre Northern San Juan Basin Coal Bed Methane Project in Colorado by the San Juan Public Lands Center, which is a combination of the Bureau of Land Management and the San Juan National Forest.

State law and bankruptcy reorganization criteria make it a longshot that any of the public or private-sector proposals to buy Portland General Electric (PGE) will displace the current plan to distribute the Enron Corp. utility’s stock to the Chapter 11-reorganized holding company’s major creditors. The possibility of another buyer emerging is not impossible, but unlikely, according to sources at both the utility and holding company.

With only two regularly scheduled meetings left before their six-year terms expire, two entrenched and embittered California regulators are not leaving quietly. This Thursday’s meeting is expected to see a continuation of the series of bitterly contested 3-2 splits with their three newer colleagues as the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) wades through an agenda full of potentially controversial energy items.

With only two regularly scheduled meetings left before their six-year terms expire, two entrenched and embittered California regulators are not leaving quietly. This Thursday’s meeting is expected to see a continuation of the series of bitterly contested 3-2 splits with their three newer colleagues as the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) wades through an agenda full of potentially controversial energy items.

While various opposition environmental groups gathered for meetings earlier this week nearby, the Port of Long Beach separately moved forward with expanded environmental and safety assessments on a proposal for a 1 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the harbor, one of the world’s busiest, situated about 25 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

While various opposition environmental groups gathered for meetings earlier this week nearby, the Port of Long Beach separately moved forward with expanded environmental and safety assessments on a proposal for a 1 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the harbor, one of the world’s busiest, situated about 25 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

While various opposition environmental groups gathered for meetings earlier this week nearby, the Port of Long Beach separately moved forward with expanded environmental and safety assessments on a proposal for a 1 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the harbor, one of the world’s busiest, situated about 25 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Holding an informal dialogue among its members at its 2003 Summer Committee Meetings in Denver, CO, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) explored how regulated cost recovery can be used to encourage adequate investment in critical infrastructure.