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Serious economic and grid reliability concerns surfaced Wednesday in a business-backed report that challenges a climate change action plan backed by seven western governors. The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) is an outline for limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and implementing a cap-and-trade system.

News that Mexico’s government is serious about a second liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal on its western coast is roiling the global LNG trade and giving heartburn to global industrial/energy giants as supplies are scarce.

News that Mexico’s government is serious about a second liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal on its western coast is roiling the global LNG trade and giving heartburn to global industrial/energy giants as supplies are scarce.

As expected, a serious warming trend due to start Friday following widespread frigid weather at midweek induced softer prices at most points Thursday. Northeast citygates, which had seen huge spikes on Wednesday, recorded equally spectacular plunges Thursday.

The marine fisheries division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has raised serious questions about the adequacy of the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) being developed by FERC on NorthernStar Natural Gas’s proposed Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal.

FERC’s first serious test of its new market enforcement authority is immersed in court, and it is critical that the federal energy regulators win if they are going to be able to protect consumers in the future, Chairman Joseph Kelliher told a national meeting of state regulators last Tuesday in Anaheim, CA. He thanked the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) for its timely support in the fight with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

FERC’s first serious test of its new market enforcement authority is immersed in court, and it is critical that the federal energy regulators win if they are going to be able to protect consumers in the future, Chairman Joseph Kelliher told a national meeting of state regulators Tuesday in Anaheim, CA. He thanked the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) for its timely support in the fight with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

It’s official and in writing. The Canadian government does not want to own a northern pipeline — and especially not one with a serious enough risk of losing money to make private investors hesitate.

It’s official and in writing. The Canadian government does not want to own a northern pipeline — and especially not one with a serious enough risk of losing money to make private investors hesitate.