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Alberta, source of four-fifths of Canadian natural gas production, has reached its natural upper limit as a supplier and its industry will have to scramble to maintain current output, the National Energy Board says.

ISO New England (ISO-NE) has just over a week to respond to a detailed Feb. 5 subpoena issued by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal that asks the electric grid operator to submit, among other things, bidding-related data as the state attorney general continues to probe generator activity during several bitterly cold days last month.

While supplier choice is catching on across the land, Edinburg,TX, Pop. 29,885, is suing its local distribution company forproviding transportation-only service to large end-users.

A voice on the buyer side of the natural gas market joined a supplier chorus in making a Canadian counterpart to the appeals of American producers for improved access to resource development targets in the United States.

Distrigas of Massachusetts LLC (DOMAC), a major supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG), on Tuesday informed FERC that it was withdrawing its application to build a send-out line in the wake of Algonquin Gas Transmission’s decision to scrap its plans for a Boston-area lateral extension.

Southern California’s port city of Long Beach is talking to three finalists in its search for a new natural gas supplier for its municipal utility to provide about 10 Bcf annually over a one- to three-year period.

Southern California’s port city of Long Beach is talking to three finalists in its search for a new natural gas supplier for its municipal utility to provide about 10 Bcf annually over a one- to three-year period.

The answer to the question of how many lawsuits can be aimed at one natural gas supplier, El Paso Natural Gas, came to the fore again Monday, and the answer: nobody knows! The lawsuits seem to continue unabated, with the latest being Nevada’s state consumer advocate in its attorney general’s office suing the Houston-based pipeline company for “perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars.”

The answer to the question of how many lawsuits can be aimed at one natural gas supplier, El Paso Natural Gas, came to the fore again Monday, and the Answer: nobody knows! The lawsuits seem to continue unabated, with the latest being Nevada’s state consumer advocate in its attorney general’s office suing the Houston-based pipeline company for “perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars.”