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Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher and Peabody Energy’s Rick Bowen said Monday that Peabody subsidiary Kentucky Syngas LLC will build its $3 billion synthetic natural gas facility somewhere in Kentucky.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is on a four-day trade mission to Mexico this week, said he will be lobbying Mexico’s government to encourage more private development to allow Texas companies to play a bigger role in developing the country’s energy and infrastructure sectors.

A federal judge in Houston Thursday postponed setting a trial date for Enron Corp.’s ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling and Rick Causey, former chief accounting officer, after lawyers cited questions about the massive amount of documentation in the case.

Former Enron executive Mario Max Yzaguirre, who recently resigned as president of Enron de Mexico, has been named by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to fill the spot vacated by Judy Walsh on the three-member Texas Public Utilities Commission. Perry still has one spot to fill after former Chairman Pat Wood III was named to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Rebecca Armendariz Klein has been tapped to fill the last vacant spot on the Texas Public Utilities Commission by Gov. Rick Perry. Armendariz Klein currently is a consultant with KPMG Consulting and served as general government policy director under George W. Bush when he was governor. She also has worked as a senior attorney for the Texas PUC and as a telecommunications law analyst for the American Enterprise Institute. Perry also announced that Mario Max Yzaguirre, named two weeks ago to the Texas PUC, will become the new chairman of the three-member panel.

Columbia Energy Chairman Oliver G. “Rick” Richard III saysproposals espousing seasonal ratemaking and negotiated terms andconditions are the most important of the many reform initiativespending before FERC, and deserve priority. Obtaining regulatoryapproval for both will be a “key initiative” of pipelines thisyear.

Columbia Energy President and CEO Oliver G. “Rick” Richard IIIsays proposals for seasonal ratemaking and negotiated terms andconditions are the most important of the reform initiatives pendingbefore FERC, and deserve priority. Obtaining regulatory approvalfor both will be a “key initiative” of pipelines this year.

Columbia Energy CEO Oliver G. (Rick) Richard gazed deep into acrystal ball yesterday for the Municipal Gas Authority of Georgiaand saw thousands of municipal gas customers using the Internet tochoose from among a plethora of alternative gas suppliers. All themunicipals saw through that crystal, however, was Richard on theother side.