Reviews

FERC has issued favorable environmental reviews for two natural gas storage facilities in New York and Ohio, which would add a combined 7 Bcf of capacity in the Northeast. Environmental assessments (EA) were awarded to Arlington Storage Co., LLC for its Thomas Corners storage project in Steuben County, NY, and to Columbia Gas Transmission’s Ohio storage expansion at its Crawford and Weaver fields.

FERC Friday issued favorable environmental reviews for two natural gas storage facilities in New York and Ohio, which would add a combined 7 Bcf of capacity. Environmental assessments (EA) were awarded to Arlington Storage Co., LLC for its Thomas Corners storage project in Steuben County, NY, and to Columbia Gas Transmission’s Ohio storage expansion at its Crawford and Weaver fields.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, is looking into the way the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) may have bypassed some environmental reviews to issue oil and natural gas drilling permits across the West. One particular area of GAO’s inquiry involves how some natural gas drilling permits were issued to Bill Barrett Corp. in the environmentally sensitive Nine Mile Canyon area of Utah, officials said.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, is looking into the way the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) may have bypassed some environmental reviews to issue oil and natural gas drilling permits across the West. One particular area of GAO’s inquiry involves how some natural gas drilling permits were issued to Bill Barrett Corp. in the environmentally sensitive Nine Mile Canyon area of Utah, officials said.

Six years after it was the center of an economic and energy meltdown, California’s latest public-sector energy financings are gaining improved reviews by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P) and Moody’s Investors Service.

FERC has issued favorable environmental reviews for three expansions proposed by Wyoming Interstate Co. Ltd (WIC), Gulfstream Natural Gas System and Texas Eastern Transmission LP (Tetco) to serve a number of growing gas markets in the United States, including Florida and New Jersey.

FERC Friday issued favorable environmental reviews for three expansions proposed by Wyoming Interstate Co. Ltd (WIC), Gulfstream Natural Gas System and Texas Eastern Transmission LP (Tetco) to serve a number of growing gas markets in the United States, including Florida and New Jersey.

Veteran California Congressman, Rep. Henry Waxman, earlier this month challenged the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its handling of the reviews of the proposed offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal by Australian resources giant, BHP Billiton. Waxman expressed concerns in a Jan. 16 letter that the federal agency was rolling over for proponents of the LNG floating terminal.

Aggressive regulatory reviews and the midterm elections dulled North American electricity and natural gas utility merger and acquisition (M&A) activity last year, and U.S.-based power utilities failed to complete any “big deal” transactions, according to corporate consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).