Rejection

ConocoPhillips is reassessing how to advance its Alaska North Slope gas pipeline project after its rejection by the state in favor of a competing proposal that is compliant with the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA), the company said Thursday.

ConocoPhillips is reassessing how to advance its Alaska North Slope gas pipeline project after its rejection by the state in favor of a competing proposal that is compliant with the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA), the company said last week.

While the written order for the five-zip rejection last month by state regulators of an Australian investment firm’s bid for NorthWestern Energy has yet to be issued, Gov. Brian Schweitzer left no doubt as to its message, commenting to local reporters: “This is an order that says pack your bags and get on your kangaroo and ride out of here because you’re not going to be in Montana.”

The Powder River Basin Resource Council has filed pleadings in Wyoming district court in opposition to the governor’s rejection of reforms to the management of coalbed methane (CBM) discharge water. The citizens group said Gov. Dave Freudenthal’s move to block the “thoroughly debated citizen initiative” was “arbitrary, capricious and not in accordance with the law.”

The Powder River Basin Resource Council filed pleadings in Wyoming district court in opposition to the governor’s rejection of reforms to the management of coalbed methane (CBM) discharge water last week. The citizens group said Gov. Dave Freudenthal’s move to block the “thoroughly debated citizen initiative” was “arbitrary, capricious and not in accordance with the law.”

Doubts pile up in the wake of the California State Lands Commission rejection of BHP Billiton’s proposed offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal as being too problematic from both safety and environmental standpoints. Proponents of three other offshore LNG projects along the Southern California coast are worried, but each is a different type of proposal. BHP officials said Tuesday they are assessing their options, one of which is to challenge the state agency’s ruling in court.

Saltville Gas Storage Co. said last week that FERC’s rejection of its unique rate design for its high-deliverability gas storage field in southwestern Virginia will “chill” the development of more gas storage projects like its own.

Saltville Gas Storage Co. says that FERC’s rejection of its unique rate design for its high-deliverability gas storage field in southwestern Virginia will “chill” the development of more gas storage projects like its own.

Staff at the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has urged state regulators to reject the pending merger between FirstEnergy Corp. and GPU Inc. on the grounds that the two companies have failed to back up claims that the merger will not harm ratepayers in the Garden State, among other things.