Revives

As a partner in the Mackenzie Gas Project, ConocoPhillips Canada is vowing to make the frozen northern pipeline go ahead if the hibernating Canadian regulatory apparatus revives to make an approval decision. Kevin Meyers, president of the subsidiary of ConocoPhillips, told for reporters at its Calgary head office that Canadian arctic supplies still have a good chance to beat Alaskan gas to markets in the Lower 48.

California’s newly created state power authority began last week to shape the state’s legislatively mandated return to “integrated resource planning,” the process — pre-dating energy restructuring — of central state planning of the needed mix among fuels for electricity generation, renewables and demand-side management and responsiveness programs. The process sets aside the notion that markets will sort out the right mixture, giving that role to state government.

California’s newly created state power authority began this week to shape the state’s legislatively mandated return to “integrated resource planning,” the process — pre-dating energy restructuring — of central state planning of the needed mix among fuels for electricity generation, renewables and demand-side management and responsiveness programs. The process sets aside the notion that markets will sort out the right mixture, giving that role to state government.

“North to Alaska, go north, the rush is on.” The old song byJohnny Horton about the Alaskan gold rush could easily be rewrittentoday — but the attraction would be the huge reserves of naturalgas there. This past week, the rush began to drum up private andpublic support to build a gas pipeline that would transport themassive untapped reserves from the Alaskan North Slope and theCanadian Mackenzie Delta to the Lower 48.