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With a legal opinion supporting the move, the Port of Long Beach Harbor Commission Monday decided to terminate an ongoing environmental assessment and reject a four-year-old proposal by Sound Energy Solutions (SES) to build a 1 Bcf/d receiving terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the harbor.

Pushed by regulators and the aggressive approach unfolding in California, the industry supporting advanced meter infrastructure (AMI) technology is gearing up for growth it could only hope for a decade ago. A combination of improved technology and regulatory-induced incentives for major utilities to change out their entire systems is sparking the growth.

Pushed by regulators and the aggressive approach unfolding in California, the industry supporting advanced meter infrastructure (AMI) technology is gearing up for growth it could only hope for a decade ago. A combination of improved technology and regulatory-induced incentives for major utilities to change out their entire systems is sparking the growth.

While supporting FERC’s overall action, a major natural gas pipeline group said it has two concerns with the agency’s recent order temporarily waiving blanket-certificate regulations to spur and expedite repairs and the construction of new interstate gas pipelines. The agency’s action was intended to bolster deliveries of gas supplies this winter from the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast region.

While supporting efforts of FERC to process proposals to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals in a timely fashion, gas distributor KeySpan Energy said it was “equally important” for the federal agency to take the proper steps to ensure that LNG supplies “do not compromise the safety and reliability of existing distribution systems.”

While supporting efforts of FERC to process proposals to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals in a timely fashion, gas distributor KeySpan Energy said it was “equally important” for the federal agency to take the proper steps to ensure that LNG supplies “do not compromise the safety and reliability of existing distribution systems.”

While this year’s summer heat throughout most of the U.S. remains one of the largest supporting factors to skyrocketing energy prices, one forecasting firm warned that the winter could be a real doozy on the temperature charts. Calling this summer “one of the hottest U.S. summers of all time” from coast to coast, Weather 2000 warned that the country is not completely out of the woods yet heat-wise and that this winter could see significant snowfall and ample cold in certain regions.

A political ally, the Northwest Territories government, has stepped forward to try restoring momentum to Canada’s faltering Arctic natural gas project. The territorial government is supporting the C$7 billion (US$5.6 billion) Mackenzie Gas Project so enthusiastically that it is taking a chance on angering one of its biggest constituencies, the Deh Cho aboriginal population along the southern 40% of the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline.

Flat to modestly softer numbers were the hallmark of Wednesday’s cash market as the price-supporting characteristics of this week’s snowstorms in the Northeast and Midwest continued to wane. However, gains of up 18 cents were noted at some Northeast citygates.