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The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) has set for hearing a complaint by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) against Range Resources Corp. alleging methane contamination of residential water wells in Parker County in the Barnett Shale play (see Shale Daily, Dec. 9). The hearing date is to be Jan. 10. “Because this matter has now been set for hearing, and the commission will sit in judgment of the facts, the commissioners cannot comment on the case,” said RRC General Counsel Lindil Fowler. “However, RRC staff expects both parties, the EPA as well as Range Resources representatives, to appear before hearings examiners and testify as to the allegations…”

Commission staff, former commissioners and industry representatives will testify Friday (Nov. 16) at a conference being held by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to examine its implementation of FERC’s enforcement authority as expanded by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Commission staff, former commissioners and industry representatives will testify Nov. 16 at a conference being held by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to examine its implementation of FERC’s enforcement authority as expanded by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Bush administration officials will appear before Congress this week to testify for the first time about the federal government’s efforts to recover and restore the energy infrastructure facilities along the hurricane-damaged Gulf Coast.

After refusing to testify against his co-workers, former Dynegy tax attorney Jamie Olis, one of the architects of Project Alpha, was sent to a minimum security federal prison in Texas Thursday to begin serving a 24-year sentence. He was convicted of conspiracy and five counts of securities, wire and mail fraud last year for helping push through the 2001 scheme.

After refusing to testify against his co-workers, former Dynegy tax attorney Jamie Olis, one of the architects of Project Alpha, was sent to a minimum security federal prison in Texas Thursday to begin serving a 24-year sentence. He was convicted of conspiracy and five counts of securities, wire and mail fraud last year for helping push through the 2001 scheme.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will join producers and consumers this week in testifying on the increasingly critical natural gas supply situation before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will join producers and consumers next week in testifying on the increasingly critical natural gas supply situation before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

H. Ross Perot, the founder of Plano, TX-based Perot System Corp., will testify July 11 before the California state senate’s investigative committee looking at alleged energy market manipulation in the state’s 2000-2001 electricity crisis. Perot’s appearance is voluntary, but a state legislative committee staff member said there still may be subpoenas eventually directed at Perot and his firm. The center of the controversy is a PowerPoint presentation on “holes” in the state’s newly restructured electricity market that Perot Systems help set up in 1997-98 from an information systems perspective under contract to two state entities — the transmission grid operator, Cal-ISO, and the now bankrupt California Power Exchange (Cal-PX). As part of subpoenaed information from Houston-based Reliant Energy, a copy of the Perot Systems’ presentation came into the hands of investigators with the state senate Select Committee to Investigate Price Manipulation of the Wholesale Energy Market.