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The president of the California Public Utilities Commission Wednesday gave a qualified thumbs up to the recently imposed federal wholesale electricity price mitigation measures, saying they are having an impact in “tamping down” power prices, but they are not enough.

NW Natural submitted an application Friday to the Oregon EnergyFacility Siting Council (EFSC) for a 60-mile, 24-inch pipeline tolink the company’s underground natural gas storage fields nearMist, OR to a Williams mainline near Molalla.

NW Natural submitted an application Friday to the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC) for a 60-mile, 24-inch pipeline to link the company’s underground natural gas storage fields near Mist, OR to a Williams mainline near Molalla.

The Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safetyreported yesterday that El Paso Natural Gas has submitted theresults of its tests on the one line (Line 1110) that was the leastaffected by the Aug. 19 explosion and fire on El Paso’s South Mainsystem, as well as a plan for returning the line back to operation.

Ohio and Pennsylvania landowners aren’t convinced the precedentagreements submitted by the sponsors of the proposed IndependencePipeline last month provide “sufficient evidence” of marketsupport, and have asked FERC to deny the greenfield pipelineproject a certificate when it takes up the case this week.

In a fiscal year 1999 performance report card submitted toCongress and the White House, the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission gave itself high marks for furthering competition in thenatural gas and electricity markets, citing the mega gas rule(Order 637), the RTO decision (Order 2000) and its FERC Firstinitiative as proof of its progress.

In a fiscal year 1999 performance report card submitted toCongress and the White House, the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission gave itself high marks for furthering competition in thenatural gas and electricity markets last year, citing the mega gasrule (Order 637), the RTO decision (Order 2000) and its FERC Firstinitiative as proof of its progress.

The last chapter in the saga of the aborted 2 Bcf Wells, ME, LNGproject has been filed at FERC. A settlement agreement submittedlast week allows LNG project developer Granite State GasTransmission to recover $8.3 million in predevelopment coststhrough Northern Utilities’ ratepayers over a seven-year period.

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s Y2K contingency plan to havetransportation nominations for the first seven days of the new yearsubmitted in advance by Dec. 28 has caused concern among some ofits shippers.