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A pair of winter weather outlooks released last week by prominent forecasters call for colder weather across the Mid-Atlantic region in coming months, and each said the nation’s winter weather will be significantly effected by the current El Nino event, though one outlook called for a fading El Nino and the other sees El Nino strengthening.

A pair of Energy East Corp. subsidiaries have asked the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) to approve rate increases for both natural gas and electricity that they said are necessary to cover increasing operation and maintenance costs and to help pay for significant infrastructure investments.

NiSource Inc. may spend as much as $1.2 billion on a pair of pipelines by 2016 and look to partners to invest another $500 million in an effort to increase capacity out of the Marcellus Shale, the company said Thursday.

A pair of Alaska lawmakers are asking the state’s governor and attorney general to take another look at the natural gas pipeline license issued to TransCanada Alaska Co. LLC under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) to see if it is still a good deal for the state. Gov. Sarah Palin said the resolution is unnecessary.

Early results from a pair of wells in northwestern Louisiana’s Haynesville shale play could indicate that Questar Corp.’s exploration & production (E&P) unit has hit the play’s “sweet spot,” CEO Keith Rattie said Thursday.

Early results from a pair of wells in northwestern Louisiana’s Haynesville shale play could indicate that Questar Corp.’s exploration & production (E&P) unit has hit the play’s “sweet spot,” CEO Keith Rattie said Thursday.

TransCanada Corp. has launched the first in a pair of extensions planned for up to C$880 million (US$700 million) to integrate growing British Columbia (BC) natural gas supplies into its NOVA pipeline grid and international trading hub spanning Alberta.

TransCanada Corp. has launched the first in a pair of extensions planned for up to C$880 million (US$700 million) to integrate growing British Columbia (BC) natural gas supplies into its NOVA pipeline grid and international trading hub spanning Alberta.

A pair of weather forecasts issued last week offered differing views of upcoming temperatures in the Northeast, with one saying the region may be seeing an early start to wintry conditions and another predicting a warmer-than-normal November. Both forecasts called for colder-than-average temperatures to dominate the region in December.