Proponents

As gasoline pump prices continue to soar, proponents for more natural gas use as a transportation fuel are popping up around the nation, using environmental and economic drivers to promote their cause. Cities including Chicago and gas-rich states like Texas and Wyoming are getting in on the act.

Claiming two Oregon state departments are putting the project in a legal box, proponents of the proposed Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, the link to a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, have filed a lawsuit alleging the state is undermining federal authority.

As natural gas production in the prolific Marcellus Shale continues to ramp up in Pennsylvania, proponents say drilling and well stimulation practices are safe and that steps are being taken to ensure the protection of the Commonwealth’s water resources for all Pennsylvanians.

As natural gas production in the prolific Marcellus Shale continues to ramp up in Pennsylvania, proponents say drilling and well stimulation practices are safe and that steps are being taken to ensure the protection of the Commonwealth’s water resources for all Pennsylvanians.

As natural gas production in the prolific Marcellus Shale continues to ramp up in Pennsylvania, proponents say drilling and well stimulation practices are safe and that steps are being taken to ensure the protection of the Commonwealth’s water resources for all Pennsylvanians.

Proponents of three competing liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Oregon made their case for the Pacific Northwest needing more natural gas in the decades to come, and tried to differentiate their spins on LNG’s key role in providing more gas-on-gas competition in the region during the sixth annual regional energy conference June 3-4 sponsored by Northwest Gas Association and Northwest Industrial Gas Users.

Proponents of three competing liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Oregon made their case for the Pacific Northwest needing more natural gas in the decades to come, and tried to differentiate their spins on LNG’s key role in providing more gas-on-gas competition in the region during the sixth annual regional energy conference sponsored by Northwest Gas Association and Northwest Industrial Gas Users.

As the state was still trying to overturn a favorable FERC ruling on its liquefied natural gas (LNG) project’s conditioned approval, NorthernStar Natural Gas and proponents of a competing Oregon LNG project separately expressed satisfaction Tuesday with other local, state and federal developments. In all, Oregon still has three active LNG terminal proposals — two along the Columbia River and a third, Jordan Cove, at Coos Bay along the southern half of the Oregon coast.

The first of what proponents hope will be thousands of clean-fueled, heavy-duty cargo-toting trucks arrived at the combined Long Beach and Los Angeles Ports Tuesday, beginning a 12-month demonstration of compressed natural gas (CNG)-fueled transport of containers off-loaded from ships in the nation’s busiest port facility. Sempra Energy, regional air pollution regulators and the two ports are collaborating in the effort to replace diesel-powered transport.