Florida-based Waste Pro USA has committed to a $100 million program to develop a network of compressed natural gas (CNG) refuse hauling trucks and the fueling stations to support them. It is working to transform a portion of its fleet from diesel to CNG. As part of that longer term effort, the recycling and disposal company said Clean Energy Fuels Corp. would build and operate a CNG fueling station at Waste Pro’s headquarters in Fort Pierce, FL, to support the company’s growing fleet. Permits have been obtained, and the facility is scheduled to be in operation by 3Q2012. About 150 heavy-duty CNG-fueled waste collection and recycling trucks are to be deployed to serve residential and commercial customers. Waste Pro operates in 70 locations in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi.
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Appeals Court Tosses Drilling Ban in Allegheny Forest
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) can’t refuse to give operators permission to drill in the Allegheny National Forest while it conducts an environmental impact study there.
Senate Panel Begins Trek Toward Climate Change
Even if major polluters China and India refuse to accept carbon emission-reduction targets, unilateral efforts by the United States to cut emissions would make a significant difference in global warming, said Obama administration officials Tuesday.
Producer Claims Columbia Used Unauthorized Gas Spec to Deny Interconnection Request
A Colorado-based oil and natural gas producer has accused Columbia Gas Transmission of using an allegedly unauthorized gas quality specification to refuse its request for an interconnect to the pipeline.
Pushing the Envelope in Canadian Coalbed Methane
While no one in Canada is predicting a return to rapid natural gas production and export growth rates of the 1980s and ’90s, entrepreneurial factions of the industry refuse to accept the idea it has run out of new supply sources.
California Gets $50 Million Hydrogen Boost from DOE Grant
Uncle Sam offered the Terminator-turned-governor an offer he and California couldn’t refuse Thursday: a government-industry-university research team and up to $50 million in a five-year program to develop a hydrogen-based transportation infrastructure in the nation’s most populous and motor vehicle-inundated state.
Canadian Producers Cash In
Canadians are cheering on the tight “continental” natural gas market in growing numbers, as gains owed to high sales volumes and prices — driven by expanding exports to the United States — spread and multiply. The seller’s market for gas is behind Alberta government projections of a stunning budget surplus in the range of C$10-$12 billion (US$6.8-$8.2 billion) for the fiscal year that ended March 31 — or about C$4,000 (US$2,750) each for every man, woman and child living in the province. Virtually all the surplus is owed to oil and gas royalties, and the gas share of them is about 70%.
Transportation Notes
Public Service Co. of Colorado and Cheyenne (WY) Light Fuel andPower will continue to refuse imbalance payback gas at leastthrough today’s gas day. If operational constraints from warmregional weather continue, the two utilities said, the paybackrestriction will be extended.
Futures Bend But Refuse to Break
The May futures contract suffered a third straight day of lossesby slipping a mere 0.6-cents to settle at $2.469 in relativelyquiet trading. The session was marked by light selling as bearsprobed for sell-stops but was kept in check by buying ahead of the2.435-.440 level. A modest 31,695 contracts changed hands in asession that saw no new fundamental developments.