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The Jonah Interagency Mitigation and Reclamation Office (JIO) said it selected seven out of a total of 19 project proposals received to mitigate the impact on wildlife habitat, water and air quality, and livestock forage of Jonah Field gas development in Wyoming. In this first round of projects, the JIO, which includes representatives from four state agencies and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), spent about $660,000 out of the $24.5 million donated by EnCana Corp. for the mitigation program.

The Jonah Interagency Mitigation and Reclamation Office (JIO) said it selected seven out of a total of 19 project proposals received to mitigate the impact on wildlife habitat, water and air quality, and livestock forage of Jonah Field gas development in Wyoming. In this first round of projects, the JIO, which includes representatives from four state agencies and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), spent about $660,000 out of the $24.5 million donated by EnCana Corp. for the mitigation program.

ISO New England (ISO-NE) on Monday called for the region to increase the availability of natural gas by building new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals and natural gas pipeline capacity in order to help protect consumers from volatile fuel supplies.

In the next 30-45 days large consumers may have the opportunity “to lock in some really low gas prices,” according to Chesapeake Energy Chairman Aubrey K. McClendon, adding that his company is “virtually 100% hedged” during that time period.

Nonprofit environmental group Campaign to Protect America’s Lands (CPAL) said last week that results from a survey of registered voters in New Mexico show that fewer than one in four, including less than half the registered Republicans, favor the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) plan to permit oil and gas drilling in the Otero Mesa region, which includes two counties, Otero and Sierra, in southern New Mexico.

Nonprofit environmental group Campaign to Protect America’s Lands (CPAL) said Thursday that results from a survey of registered voters in New Mexico show that fewer than one in four, including less than half the registered Republicans, favor the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) plan to permit oil and gas drilling in the Otero Mesa region, which includes two counties, Otero and Sierra, in southern New Mexico.

In an effort to protect jurisdictional companies from having their cash funds siphoned off by parent firms facing bankruptcy or other financial troubles, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week proposed a rule that would set limits on the involvement of regulated public utilities and natural gas and oil pipelines in intra-corporate cash management programs, or money pools.

In an effort to protect jurisdictional companies from having their cash funds siphoned off by parent firms facing bankruptcy or other financial troubles, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week proposed a rule that would set limits on the involvement of regulated public utilities and natural gas and oil pipelines in intra-corporate cash management programs, or money pools.

California regulators will hold public hearings Tuesday and Wednesday in the mountains and high desert region about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles as part of an investigation into the skyrocketing natural gas prices last winter charged by Las Vegas, NV-based Southwest Gas Corp.