Practical

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu described an initial report on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) as “practical, thoughtful and insightful,” as the subcommittee that compiled it began developing a timeline over the next 90 days for federal and state regulatory agencies to implement its recommendations.

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu described an initial report on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) as “practical, thoughtful and insightful,” and said he would work with other officials in the Obama administration to set a course for future shale gas development.

Continuing to lobby the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to adopt a practical definition of manipulative market behavior as: “intentionally losing money on transactions that set (or make) a price to benefit the value of related positions that tie to (or take) that price,” economists at The Brattle Group last week released a report offering a proposed framework to define market manipulation.

Continuing to lobby the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to adopt a practical definition of manipulative market behavior as: “intentionally losing money on transactions that set (or make) a price to benefit the value of related positions that tie to (or take) that price,” economists at The Brattle Group released a report titled Losing Money to Increase Profits: A Proposed Framework for Defining Market Manipulation.

More than one-third of the global increase in natural gas production by 2035 will come from unconventional shale gas, coalbed methane and tight gas, according to the World Energy Outlook 2010 (WEO-2010), which was issued by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Tuesday.

Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) plans to introduce a “practical” energy and climate change bill Monday (June 7) that seeks to cut the nation’s energy usage and carbon dioxide emissions significantly over the next two decades.

Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) plans to introduce a “practical” energy and climate change bill next Monday that seeks to cut the nation’s energy usage and carbon dioxide emissions significantly over the next two decades.

A pipeline rivalry has added a practical dimension to an otherwise legalistic Canadian regulatory case about a proposed historic transfer of jurisdiction over Alberta’s Nova natural gas gathering network to the National Energy Board (NEB).

A pipeline rivalry has added a practical dimension to an otherwise legalistic Canadian regulatory case about a proposed historic transfer of jurisdiction over Alberta’s Nova natural gas gathering network to the National Energy Board (NEB).