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Canada’s northern natural gas consortium is fighting off an environmental protest that threatens to add dimensions in complexity-and approval time, especially-to the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline.

Energy is the “biggest single challenge for the next few decades,” but because fewer graduates are entering the field, the next generation needs to be inspired with a sense of mission to “save the world,” a Nobel Prize winning scientist said Tuesday during a Global Energy Management Institute (GEMI) forum at the University of Houston.

Energy is the “biggest single challenge for the next few decades,” but because fewer graduates are entering the field, the next generation needs to be inspired with a sense of mission to “save the world,” a Nobel Prize winning scientist said Tuesday during a Global Energy Management Institute (GEMI) forum at the University of Houston.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week ordered CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission to show cause why its ability to enter into negotiated-rate contracts with its customers should not be suspended or revoked in light of agency staff’s findings that the pipeline failed to inform the Commission of a slew of material deviations in the contracts over an almost six-year period.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday ordered CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission to show cause why its ability to enter into negotiated-rate contracts with its customers should not be suspended or revoked in light of agency staff’s findings that the pipeline failed to inform the Commission of a slew of material deviations in the contracts over an almost six-year period.

Natural gas-fired generators are going to find it increasingly difficult to be profitable as lower cost coal-fired generators continue to beat them to the market, and overcapacity of low-cost gas generation keeps power prices depressed, a new report looking at Midwest power markets concludes.

A political trap has been added to the geological, technical and environmental obstacle course faced by Canadian natural gas suppliers. A sore spot in industry relations with native communities is worsening to the point where the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association has warned that “a point of crisis” is at hand.

A political trap has been added to the geological, technical and environmental obstacle course faced by Canadian natural gas suppliers. A sore spot in industry relations with native communities is worsening to the point where the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) has warned that “a point of crisis” is at hand.

Financial recovery in the energy industry is going to take a very long time, given that $226 billion — or more than 90% of market capitalization — was lost by the dozen major energy trading and power generation firms, a Nymex executive told a national meeting of state regulators in Portland, OR, last week.