Elected officials at all levels of government in Pennsylvania should implement regulations to block gas extraction in “pristine places and locations near where people live or work,” said the PennEnvironment Research and Policy Center. The group said it has documented well sites within two miles of more than 320 daycare facilities, 67 schools and nine hospitals in the state. PennEnvironment also called on lawmakers to strengthen clean water laws, “halt the use of toxic chemicals” in hydraulic fracturing and increase resources available to regulators. In addition, PennEnvironment called on the federal government to “end the special treatment for the gas industry and apply the nation’s core public health and environmental laws to gas extraction, just as it would regulate any potential threat to public health or the environment.”
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Maine Puts Halt to Northeast Energy Corridor
Pressured by Maine manufacturers, labor unions and energy developers, Maine Gov. John Baldacci Friday signed into law legislation that places a moratorium on a controversial plan for an energy corridor to move electricity and natural gas between New Brunswick, Canada and New England. Baldacci inked the bill only hours after the state legislature passed it.
Maine Puts Halt to Northeast Energy Corridor
Pressured by Maine manufacturers, labor unions and energy developers, Maine Gov. John Baldacci Friday signed into law legislation that places a moratorium on a controversial plan for an energy corridor to move electricity and natural gas between New Brunswick, Canada and New England. Baldacci inked the bill only hours after the state legislature passed it.
Retail Gas Competition Alive, Well in Various States
While deregulated electricity markets struggle in some places, retail natural gas competition thrives in nearly a dozen states, such as Georgia, where it has been in effect for almost a decade, according to a panel of gas utility and marketer representatives at the annual meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) last week in Anaheim, CA.
Retail Gas Competition Alive, Well in Various States
While deregulated electricity markets struggle in some places, retail natural gas competition thrives in nearly a dozen states, such as Georgia, where it has been in effect for almost a decade, according to a panel of gas utility and marketer representatives at the annual meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) in Anaheim, CA.
NYC Spikes Again; Nearly All Other Points Drop
It’s still pretty cold in most places, especially the shivering Northeast, but there was enough of a moderating trend under way in such areas as the western South, Midcontinent/Midwest and Southwest that prices fell at nearly all points Thursday. The 17.6-cent decline in February futures the day before also contributed negative guidance to cash numbers.
TransCanada, Northwest Natural Ponder Pipe to Serve Columbia River LNG
TransCanada’s Gas Transmission Northwest (GTN) system and Northwest Natural Gas Co. are holding an open season for a new 220-mile project called Palomar Gas Transmission.
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Exelon CEO Sees U.S. Entering Era of ‘Difficult’ Mergers
The U.S. is entering “an era when mergers are going to be more difficult again” and will “only be easy in places where there’s a very troubled utility,” Exelon Corp. CEO John Rowe said last Thursday in remarks made at the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. strategic decisions conference in New York City.
Interior, NOIA Downplay Drawing of New Boundaries in Eastern Gulf
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), a long-time critic of expanded oil and natural gas drilling, has overreacted to the Interior Department’s drawing of an administrative line that places the eastern boundary of offshore Louisiana in the natural gas-prone eastern Gulf of Mexico, said spokesmen for the Interior Department and the offshore industry Tuesday.
Idaho Gas Distributor Seeks Capacity Expansion in Five-Year Plan
Boise, ID-based Intermountain Gas Co. wants to expand its transmission capacity in three places as part of a new five-year gas procurement plan before the Idaho Public Utilities Commission. The regulators are giving stakeholders and the general public through Nov. 16 to comment on Intermountain’s proposals.
