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BHP Billiton is challenged Phil Angelides, California State Treasurer and Democratic Party candidate for governor, on his opposition to Billiton’s plans for an LNG receiving terminal 12 miles off the Pacific Coast from Oxnard, CA. Angelides is proposing a tough, detailed state review of all LNG projects.

Scrambling to make up ground in opinion polls showing his gubernatorial campaign trailing the incumbent, California State Treasurer Phil Angelides Friday stood on a bluff in Malibu overlooking the Pacific Ocean and declared he is opposed to BHP Billiton’s proposal to build an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal about a dozen miles out to sea.

Updating its April forecast (see Daily GPI, April 10), the Colorado State University forecast team led by Phil Klotzbach and William Gray said the U.S. Atlantic basin likely will experience another active hurricane season, but coastal regions may face fewer major hurricanes making landfall than last year.

With action by the California state teachers’ retirement fund Wednesday, state Treasurer Phil Angelides announced that all of the pieces of his so-called “Green Wave” investment strategy are now in place. As a board member of two of the nation’s largest public sector pension funds, Angelides has convinced them to invest in companies producing clean energy technologies and those with acceptable environmental protection records.

Backing up for the most part what Punxsutawney Phil confirmed last month, WSI Corp. last week said it is calling for cooler than normal temperatures during the early spring to be followed up later in the season with warmer than normal weather across most of the nation.

Backing up for the most part what Punxsutawney Phil confirmed earlier this month, WSI Corp. is calling for cooler than normal temperatures during the early spring to be followed up later in the season with warmer than normal weather across most of the nation.

Royal Dutch/Shell Group’s new Chairman Phil Watts, who assumed the post at the world’s second largest energy company July 1, said the company’s production goals through the rest of 2001 will be met, but admitted that its future expansion could slow because of the sagging world economy. Watts, who inherited a company that has been knocked back in several takeover attempts recently, nonetheless noted recently that natural gas “is plainly the fuel of the future and we are well placed to be part of that future.”

Royal Dutch/Shell Group’s new Chairman Phil Watts, who assumed the post at the world’s second largest energy company July 1, said the company’s production goals through the rest of 2001 will be met, but admitted that its future expansion could slow because of the sagging world economy. Watts, who inherited a company that has been knocked back in several takeover attempts recently, nonetheless noted Thursday that natural gas “is plainly the fuel of the future and we are well placed to be part of that future.”

Capitol Hill observers who had expected the electricderegulation legislation of Sens. Phil Gramm (R-TX) and CharlesSchumer (D-NY) to be more aggressive and comprehensive than otherbills languishing in the Senate weren’t disappointed last week.