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The views of northwestern utility regulators can differ widely on topics such as climate change, renewable energy, natural gas policy and the development of new nuclear power generation, as revealed by remarks heard Monday at an industry conference.

TXU Corp. shareholders Friday approved the leveraged buyout of the company by Texas Energy Future Holdings LP (TEF), marking the largest such deal to date.

TXU Corp. shareholders Friday approved the leveraged buyout of the company by Texas Energy Future Holdings LP (TEF), marking the largest such deal to date.

Natural gas futures traders were able to focus on more menial tasks Wednesday, such as sock drawer rearranging, as activity in the September contract was deemed to be “more than a little bit on the light side” by at least one participant. While putting in a respectable 15-cent range on the day, the prompt month lacked any real motivation on its way to a regular session close of $6.220, up 1.9 cents from Tuesday’s close.

Gas-weighted Rockies producers such as Bill Barrett Corp., Questar Corp., Ultra Petroleum and The Williams Companies face margin compression in the near term while they wait for the next increments of the Rockies Express pipeline to come online at the beginning of 2008 and mid-2009, according to Raymond James & Associates Inc.

Gas-weighted Rockies producers such as Bill Barrett Corp., Questar Corp., Ultra Petroleum and The Williams Companies face margin compression in the near term while they wait for the next increments of the Rockies Express pipeline to come online at the beginning of 2008 and mid-2009, according to Raymond James & Associates Inc.

The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) Wednesday adopted new rules to protect the state’s 200,000 miles of intrastate pipelines from damage by third parties such as homeowners, contractors, city and state employees and anyone else digging near pipelines.

Natural gas snared a larger share of power generation in January due to lower prices and colder weather, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Tuesday. Net generation attributable to gas was up by 40.7% from January 2006.

Rep. Timothy Bishop (D-NY) plans to introduce stand-alone legislation in the near term to ban the construction of facilities in estuaries of national significance, such as Broadwater Energy LLC’s controversial deepwater liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal that is proposed for Long Island Sound, a spokesman said.