Protection

High natural gas prices were cited by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of the primary reasons that total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose by 0.6% in 2003 from 2002 levels. Rising gas prices caused electric power producers to switch from natural gas to burning more coal.

Due to forecasts of cold weather in its service area, MRT will implement a System Protection Warning at the start of Wednesday’s gas day. See the bulletin board for SPW conditions.

MRT is canceling Friday a System Protection Warning that was implemented at the start of Thursday’s gas day.

After lifting Thursday a System Protection Warning (SPW) that had begun Monday (see Daily GPI, Dec. 14), MRT cited new forecasts of cold weather in saying it will implement another SPW Saturday. It is subject to these conditions: 1) MRT will not schedule any mainline IT or AOR (authorized overrun) volumes for delivery north of Glendale; 2) Firm volumes will be limited to their primary direction of flow; 3) MRT is not accepting short imbalance positions in the market zone; and 4) Shippers may not nominate supply from existing long imbalance positions in the market zone. Saying it has capacity available on the East Line, MRT encouraged shippers who were relying on mainline IT, AOR and/or imbalance volumes to re-source supply to the East Line or reduce applicable delivery volumes in order to avoid OFOs.

Citing required maintenance at its storage facilities, MRT issued a systemwide System Protection Warning effective Wednesday until the beginning of Monday’s gas day. Under the warning, MRT will not allow long imbalance positions on a daily basis and is not accepting gas to eliminate existing due-pipeline imbalances.

Citing required maintenance at its storage facilities, MRT issued a systemwide System Protection Warning effective Wednesday until the beginning of Monday’s gas day. Under the warning, MRT will not allow long imbalance positions on a daily basis and is not accepting gas to eliminate existing due-pipeline imbalances.

Several lawmakers have called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate allegations that the agency used flawed science and bowed to political pressure in a study issued this year, which concluded that additive fluids used in the development of natural gas posed little or no threat to drinking water supplies.

Several lawmakers have called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate allegations that the agency used flawed science and bowed to political pressure in a study issued this year which concluded that toxic fluids used in the development of natural gas posed little or no threat to drinking water supplies.

The states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have lined up as critics of FERC’s draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) on the proposed Weaver’s Cove LNG terminal near Fall River, MA, urging the Commission to consider alternatives (CP04-36).