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Tennessee said it was lifting Monday the systemwide OFO Action Alert it had implemented Sunday, and it also had resumed allowing Park and Loan Payback nominations.

In a forum stressing renewables at the Western Governors’ Association (WGA) annual meeting last Monday in Park City, UT, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu said the view of natural gas in the energy mix is becoming more bullish for the next 10 years, given the breakthrough in obtaining economic supplies from shale. North American power generators are rethinking the role of gas over the next decade, Chu told the governors group, which issued a new policy resolution on renewable development in the West.

In a forum stressing renewables at the Western Governors’ Association (WGA) annual meeting Monday in Park City, UT, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu said the view of natural gas in the energy mix is becoming more bullish for the next 10 years, given the breakthrough in obtaining economic supplies from shale. North American power generators are rethinking gas’s role over the next decade, Chu told the governors group, which issued a new policy resolution on renewable development in the West.

The House Natural Resources Committee passed legislation (HR 415) Wednesday that includes the Taunton River in southeast Massachusetts in the National Park Service’s Wild and Scenic Rivers system, throwing another roadblock in the path of the Weaver’s Cove Energy liquefied natural gas (LNG) project.

Kinder Morgan Interstate has lifted injection restrictions for all of its storage services (ISS, NNS, FSS and SCS) and for Storage Park & Loan (S-PALS) service that were implemented in late August.

Tennessee said Thursday it will be required to restrict interruptible storage injections, including FS-AO, Park and Loan Payback services, across its system for the gas days of Saturday through Monday.

Effective Friday, Sonat will not be accepting daily nominations for injections into interruptible accounts (ISS or Park and Loan) that rely on storage. The pipeline noted that it will not schedule due-pipeline imbalance makeups “on any day and cycle when we are limiting any nominations for injections under services that rely on interruptible storage.”

Increased access to U.S. resources, “including wilderness and national park areas, for exploration and production could save $300 billion in natural gas bills over 20 years,” an Energy Department official said Thursday.

Stating that a state-approved coal bed methane plan unconstitutionally allows methane companies to waste billions of gallons of groundwater and violate air and water quality standards, the Northern Plains Resource Council has filed a lawsuit against three Montana agencies.