Teeth

Canadian pipelines have been put on notice to expect more safety inspections and public exposure of lapses, and the authorities have put teeth into the warning by making an example of the biggest company.

The G-20 nations Friday were said to have forged an agreement to phase out subsidies for oil, natural gas and coal, but the document reportedly lacks teeth because it doesn’t provide a timetable for when the subsidies should end.

The G-20 nations Friday were said to have forged an agreement to phase out subsidies for oil, natural gas and coal, but the document reportedly lacks teeth because it doesn’t provide a timetable for when the subsidies should end.

Simultaneous announcements Thursday in San Diego and Quebec City put teeth in messages sent to Canadian exporters by new reports from the U.S. Department of Energy and Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) — they no longer own U.S. markets for imported natural gas.

Simultaneous announcements Thursday in San Diego and Quebec City put teeth in messages sent to Canadian exporters by new reports from the U.S. Department of Energy and Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) — they no longer own U.S. markets for imported natural gas.

Prior to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), FERC was “sort of like a snaggletooth tiger,” but it has a “full mouth of teeth now” to enforce its rules and regulations, said the agency’s top cop last Wednesday.

Prior to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), FERC was “sort of like a snaggletooth tiger,” but it has a “full mouth of teeth now” to enforce its rules and regulations, said the agency’s top cop Wednesday.

A leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm that cut its teeth on early investments in such winners as Sun Microsystems, Netscape and Google told California news media Monday it plans to invest $100 million of a new $600 million investment pool in green energy technologies. Menlo Park, CA-based Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers is looking to invest in technologies that provide cleaner energy, transportation, air and water.

Although it’s still unclear how far or how fast FERC will take its new enforcement authority, the Commission clearly has become a “regulator with teeth” under broadened powers given to it by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), according to a Washington, DC-based attorney who analyzed the new law and has experience dealing with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement, from which FERC’s newfound authority is modeled.