Notion

Officials with the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Agriculture Department’s U.S. Forest Service (USFS) disabused House lawmakers Friday of the notion that the two agencies have a broad ban on horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on federal and forest lands.

Officials with the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Agriculture Department’s U.S. Forest Service (USFS) disabused House lawmakers Friday of the notion that the two agencies have a broad ban on horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on federal and forest lands.

Putting to bed the notion that ozone production is just a hot summer day in the city phenomenon, a new study by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has discovered that “health-threatening” levels have been found during the winter near the remote Jonah Field and Pinedale Anticline natural gas formation in northwestern Wyoming. More alarmingly, data points to the problem being global.

Putting to bed the notion that ozone production is just a hot summer day in the city phenomenon, a new study by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has discovered that “health-threatening” levels have been found during the winter near the remote Jonah Field and Pinedale Anticline natural gas formation in northwestern Wyoming. More alarmingly, data points to the problem being global.

In an attempt to dissuade anyone from the notion that power markets are going to become over-built any time soon, Calpine Corp. held the second of a series of three conference calls last week with the financial community, reinforcing that it is not backing off its goal of having 70,000 MW of new capacity on line by the end of 2005, and growth in its $1.4 billion natural gas holdings will increase along with the new plants.

A key FERC official backed away Tuesday from the notion thatauctioning is the only way to market short-term pipeline capacityin the future.