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Bison Pipeline was shut in with scheduled volumes from the Buffalo, WY, receipt point cut to zero as of Friday’s gas day due to a rupture of the six-month-old pipeline in Campbell County, WY, and resulting force majeure, the TransCanada Corp. pipeline said in a notice to customers.

Bison Pipeline was shut in with scheduled volumes from the Buffalo, WY, receipt point cut to zero as of Friday’s gas day due to a rupture of the six-month-old pipeline in Campbell County, WY, and resulting force majeure, the TransCanada Corp. pipeline said in a notice to customers.

Representatives of the natural gas industry, environmental organizations and state government are among those that Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Tuesday named to the state’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission.

The results of a long-awaited, million-dollar study of air emissions in Fort Worth’s portion of the Barnett Shale in North Texas are in and rather anticlimactic. While a handful of sites were found to have emissions exceeding regulatory allowances, setback requirements for natural gas facilities were generally found to be adequate.

Pennsylvania should create a registry to monitor the health of state residents and search for potential health impacts of Marcellus Shale drilling, said Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary Eli Avila.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is proposing significant overhauls to the laws governing Marcellus Shale development in the state, including increased protection for water supplies and stricter permitting and operating requirements.

City officials in Morgantown, WV, were scheduled to meet Tuesday night to discuss two resolutions targeting two Marcellus Shale gas wells in the city’s industrial park and take up a proposed watershed protection ordinance.

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Thursday on the first of three energy bills that, if enacted, would end the de facto moratorium on shallow water and deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), resume oil and gas lease sales and lift a ban on new offshore drilling.

Florida Gas Transmission’s (FGT) Phase VIII Expansion was placed in service Friday as scheduled, according to Houston-based Southern Union Co. The announcement came one week after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave FGT the green light to place into service the remaining facilities associated with the $2.48 expansion to serve gas-fired power generators and utilities in Florida (see Daily GPI, March 28). The project, which FERC approved in November 2009, adds more than 483 miles of pipeline loops, laterals and mainline and installs 213,600 hp of compression at eight existing stations and one new station (see Daily GPI, Nov. 20, 2009). The project also called for FGT to acquire the existing 22.7-mile Martin Lateral from Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL), which will serve power plants in Manatee, Martin, Miami-Dade and Suwannee counties, FL. The Phase VIII Expansion is intended to create 820,000 MMBtu/d of capacity on FGT’s system from Alabama to Florida. The expansion’s Phase I facilities, which involved the construction and operation of facilities to serve FPL’s Manatee Power Plant, went into service in mid-2010. FGT proposes to transport gas to five other shippers: Florida Power Corp./Progress Energy Florida Inc.; Seminole Electric Cooperative Inc.; Tampa Electric Co.; the Orlando Utilities Commission; and the City of Tallahassee.