Protest

After standing aside during 17 days of fruitless truce talks, police Monday took down an Ontario railway blockade that Eastern Canadian native rights crusaders erected to support western tribal protest against the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline project.

Roughly 150 protesters were at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg on Tuesday for a rally urging lawmakers to pass legislation that would make it difficult for oil and gas companies to deduct post-production costs from royalty checks. Lawmakers have tried but failed for years to pass legislation to clarify the state’s Guaranteed Minimum Royalty Act of 1979, which sets forth the minimum payment to landowners but doesn’t address marketing costs and how they should be factored into royalties. Bradford County, PA, has launched a campaign to pressure lawmakers into passing state HB 1391, which may be considered in October (see Shale Daily,Sept. 9). The industry has fought against the legislation, claiming contractual disputes should be settled in court.

A recent request to FERC by Rockies Express Pipeline LLC (REX) for an extension of time to implement portions of its Capacity Release Standards should not be permitted due to “the broad effect such a delayed implementation would have on the natural gas industry,” according to a quintet of shippers.

A proposal by HIOS (High Island Offshore System) LLC to abandon 66 miles of mainline pipe to be repurposed for an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal has drawn multiple protests at FERC from various shippers/producers.

Everyone, it seems, is giving a piece of their minds to the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on its proposed comprehensive national plans for the greater sage grouse.

Everyone, it seems, is giving a piece of their minds to the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on its proposed comprehensive national plans for the greater sage grouse.

A 28-year-old trade alliance is breaking up over TransCanada Corp.’s program for increasing imports of natural gas from the United States into Ontario and Quebec by raising capacity on eastern legs of its Mainline.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is trying to block a Senate vote on President Obama’s pick to head the Department of Energy as a protest to proposed budget cuts to a nuclear processing facility in his home state.

California regulators have filed a protest of El Paso Natural Gas Co.’s proposed rate increase. They have requested a hearing in the matter, and asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to suspend El Paso’s proposed rates for the maximum five-month period.