Ruling

In a key ruling Friday, a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, vacated a FERC order that imposed new natural gas quality and interchangeability standards on gas entering Florida Gas Transmission’s (FGT) market area, primarily Florida, from the western end of the pipeline (see Daily GPI, April 13, 2006).

A recent appeals court ruling means that Shell Alaska may continue to explore and develop its Beaufort Sea leases in Alaska. Recently a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that the government’s Lease Sale 202 was conducted properly in 2007.

A recent appeals court ruling means that Shell Alaska may continue to explore and develop its Beaufort Sea leases in Alaska. Last week a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that the government’s Lease Sale 202 was conducted properly in 2007.

The U.S. Supreme Court last Monday let stand a lower court ruling that would require coal-burning generation facilities to comply with the strictest emission controls for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants (HAP).

As the state was still trying to overturn a favorable FERC ruling on its liquefied natural gas (LNG) project’s conditioned approval, NorthernStar Natural Gas and proponents of a competing Oregon LNG project separately expressed satisfaction Tuesday with other local, state and federal developments. In all, Oregon still has three active LNG terminal proposals — two along the Columbia River and a third, Jordan Cove, at Coos Bay along the southern half of the Oregon coast.

A landmark ruling by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has stopped an attempt by international merchants to parlay global trade in liquefied natural gas into relaxation of controls on sales of Canadian production to the United States.

A landmark ruling by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has stopped an attempt by international merchants to parlay global trade in liquefied natural gas (LNG) into relaxation of controls on sales of Canadian production to the United States.

A group of environmental organizations has filed an appeal challenging a federal judge’s ruling against the Clinton administration-era Roadless Area Conservation Rule (RACR), saying it does not believe RACR was illegally promulgated. If it stands, the decision could open millions of acres of western land to development.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week affirmed a lower court’s ruling to allow a lawsuit by E. & J. Gallo Winery of Modesto, CA, to continue against EnCana Corp. and “multiple unnamed co-conspirators” over colluding to increase the price of natural gas sold to the wine maker in 2001.