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The Senate of the new 111th Congress Thursday sent a loud and clear message to producers of traditional fuels as it unanimously passed a $10-12 billion omnibus lands package that will take off the table millions of acres of public lands for potential oil and gas development.

For the second time in three months Alberta has sent a message that fear will not be allowed to crumble a cornerstone of its natural gas supplies: “sour” reserves laced with lethal hydrogen-sulphide.

For the second time in three months Alberta has sent a message that fear will not be allowed to crumble a cornerstone of its natural gas supplies: “sour” reserves laced with lethal hydrogen-sulphide.

In an e-mail message that didn’t get sent until early afternoon Friday, Southern California Gas declared a high-linepack OFO for Saturday, saying it would assess Buy-Back charges in accordance with its tariffs to customers who delivered into its system more than 110% of their actual gas usage on the OFO day.

Simultaneous announcements Thursday in San Diego and Quebec City put teeth in messages sent to Canadian exporters by new reports from the U.S. Department of Energy and Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) — they no longer own U.S. markets for imported natural gas.

Simultaneous announcements Thursday in San Diego and Quebec City put teeth in messages sent to Canadian exporters by new reports from the U.S. Department of Energy and Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) — they no longer own U.S. markets for imported natural gas.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, last Tuesday sent back 2005-2006 orders to FERC for a clearer understanding of why the agency had modified a shipper’s contract with Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co. to allow it to resell transportation capacity.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, Tuesday sent back 2005-2006 orders to FERC for a clearer understanding of why the agency had modified a shipper’s contract with Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co. to allow it to resell transportation capacity.

A couple of Pacific Northwest utilities were sent in opposite directions by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services Thursday as the credit rating agency boosted Spokane, WA-based Avista Corp. one notch to “BBB-” and Cascade Natural Gas Corp. was granted its request to withdraw its “BBB+” corporate and senior unsecured debt rating.