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The House Florida delegation last week said it would oppose any legislation that seeks to relax the existing federal moratorium on oil and gas drilling off of the state’s coastline.

The House Florida delegation has said it will oppose legislation that seeks to relax the existing federal moratorium on oil and natural gas drilling off of the state’s coastline.

With an earlier federal appeals court decision authorizing its review of the matter, the California Coastal Commission Thursday voted unanimously to oppose federal efforts to extend three dozen oil/natural gas leases off the state’s central coast from Oxnard north to San Luis Obispo.

“Don’t even think about it” was the response that most conference participants gave FERC Thursday regarding the idea of creating uncommitted reserved storage and pipeline capacity to help dampen price volatility and lower gas prices. The idea was mentioned in a recent FERC staff report on natural gas storage and was presented as a topic of discussion at FERC’s State of the Natural Gas Industry Conference on Thursday in Washington, D.C.

“Don’t even think about it” was the response that most conference participants gave FERC Thursday regarding the idea of creating uncommitted reserved storage and pipeline capacity to help dampen price volatility and lower gas prices. The idea was mentioned in a recent FERC staff report on natural gas storage and was presented as a topic of discussion at FERC’s State of the Natural Gas Industry Conference on Thursday in Washington, D.C.

Retail energy marketers in Maryland said they favor current licensing rules and oppose erecting additional financial reporting requirements on retail energy marketers who want licenses to operate in the state. The Maryland Public Service Commission’s (PUC) recently requested comments on whether its current policy of requiring proof of financial integrity for all natural gas and electric suppliers in the state is adequate and does not restrict market entry.

Retail energy marketers in Maryland said they favor current licensing rules and oppose erecting additional financial reporting requirements on retail energy marketers who want licenses to operate in the state. The Maryland Public Service Commission’s (PUC) recently requested comments on whether its current policy of requiring proof of financial integrity for all natural gas and electric suppliers in the state is adequate and does not restrict market entry.

Local opposition is building in and around the proposed sites for liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals on the Pacific Coast of North Baja in Mexico, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times, which cited meetings in Rosarito where project proponents were given an ear full from local business owners.

Major gas producers have called on FERC to reject Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s application to spin off its South Texas pipeline facilities to an unaffiliated Texas intrastate pipeline, a move that critics argue would bifurcate Transco’s system into jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional segments and force shippers to deal with a patchwork of rates, schedules and nomination procedures.