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The Bush Administration on Thursday said it released $100 million in emergency contingency funds to states, Native American tribes and territories to assist low-income customers with their energy bills this winter, along with $633 million in block grant funds to states.

Less than a week after the Passamaquoddy Native American tribe in Maine received approval from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to lease land to Quoddy Bay LLC for construction of a $200 million LNG terminal at Split Rock (see Daily GPI, May 23), a new competing Maine LNG project was announced for construction about 10 miles away in the Washington County town of Robbinston

The liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry finally put points on the board in Maine on Thursday night when the Passamaquoddy Native American tribe voted 4-3 in favor of a new agreement with Oklahoma-based Quoddy Bay LLC to build an LNG import terminal at Split Rock on the Pleasant Point reservation.

The liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry finally put points on the board in Maine on Thursday night when the Passamaquoddy Native American tribe voted 4-3 in favor of a new agreement with Oklahoma-based Quoddy Bay LLC to build an LNG import terminal at Split Rock on the Pleasant Point reservation.

Market price projections and the advent of expanded native generation load have the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) on the prowl for more of its own natural gas supplies, a muni official heading the effort said last week in an interview with NGI.

Market price projections and the advent of expanded native generation load have the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) on the prowl for more of its own natural gas supplies, a muni official heading the effort said Tuesday in an interview with Power Market Today.

As state regulators and utilities gear up for the advent ofdistributed generation, one of California’s native sons and thefirst company in the nation to market commercial distributed powergeneration systems for businesses, Capstone Turbine Corp., ispreparing for its own $115 million IPO later this spring.

As state regulators and utilities gear up for the advent ofdistributed generation, one of California’s native sons and thefirst company in the nation to market commercial distributed powergeneration systems for businesses, Capstone Turbine Corp., ispreparing for its own $115 million IPO later this spring.

Walt Rosenbusch, a native of Austin, TX, has been appointeddirector of the Minerals Management Service, succeeding CynthiaQuarterman who resigned in February. Rosenbusch takes office May17. Since July, 1996 he has worked as a senior tax manager forErnst & Young’s Houston Energy Service Team. Prior to thatRosenbusch was with the U.S. Dept. of Interior in the land andminerals management area, working to resolve royalty issuesinvolving on- and offshore leasing. He had worked in the TexasGeneral Land Office where he was responsible for the management andadministration of 13.5 million mineral acres.