Supports

A major environmental group in New England foresees a “fairlyimmediate” need for expansion of two new pipelines in the regionand for “significant” additional pipe capacity to satisfy thenatural gas demands of power plants that are planned for that area.

Wisconsin Gov. Tommy G. Thompson says he supports phase two ofANR Pipeline’s Wisconsin 2000 Expansion that would add 194 MMcf/dof firm capacity to meet peak-day requirements and the needs of thegrowing power generation market in the state.

Wisconsin Gov. Tommy G. Thompson said he supports phase two ofANR Pipeline’s Wisconsin 2000 Expansion that would add 194 MMcf/dof firm capacity to meet peak-day requirements and the needs of thegrowing power generation market in the state.

Dallas-based Texas Utilities supports a bill to deregulateTexas’ $19 billion electric industry. The proposal was passed lastweek by the House State Affairs Committee by a vote of 13 to 2 andnow goes to the full House for consideration.

Dallas-based Texas Utilities said it supports a bill toderegulate Texas’ $19 billion electric industry. The proposal waspassed Wednesday by the House State Affairs Committee by a vote of13 to 2 and now goes to the full House for consideration.

U.S. Generating Co. filed last week at the FERC touting its Caloosa Generating Project as more economically and environmentally friendly than Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) Fort Myers project, at the same time lending support to the recently announced Gulfstream Natural Gas System.

A supply/demand forecast released by Nova Corp. confirms whatmany market observers have expected: Canadian gas producers will behard pressed to fill all the new transportation capacity coming online this winter and could find it even harder to fill storage andmeet demand next summer.

The Pipeline Customer Coalition (PCC) says it supports FERC’sproposed revisions to its complaint procedures that would fosterinformal resolution of commercial differences upfront. Theobjective is to speed up the complaint process at the Commission bycutting down on the number of formal complaints filed. Thecoalition believes this can be accomplished by the FERC mandatingthat regulated energy companies make available “carefullydelineated” pre-filing dispute resolution measures for theircustomers’ use.

Given mild weather, bearish storage levels and the normal slumpin weekend demand, many traders were surprised Friday to see nearlyall Eastern points stay flat or go up as much as 3-4 cents. ThoughGulf Coast numbers were “falling hard” near deadline after startingseveral cents higher, a producer surmised they were being held upat first by “hurricane hype.” Other sources also mentioned that asthe reason for the relative Eastern strength, saying they couldthink of no other explanation.