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San Francisco-based PG&E Corp. tossed aside the current financial struggles of both its regulated and merchant lines of business , announcing Thursday that it is a charter member of a new private-sector nonprofit, the California Climate Action Registry, a state-created voluntary registry for greenhouse gas emissions. All of PG&E’s businesses will report their greenhouse gas emissions associated with the generation, transmission, distribution and storage of natural gas and electricity in California.

Dynegy Inc. was thrown a major financial lifeline late Friday when it closed on the sale of Northern Natural Gas. Co to Berkshire Hathaway’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. Just days earlier, it had told the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that bankruptcy could be in its future if the sale of natural gas pipeline was either delayed or blocked.

In one of the few victories in recent weeks for Arthur Andersen LLP, a Houston judge last week barred U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors from subpoenaing Andersen employees to appear in front of a grand jury before the firm goes on trial in May on obstruction of justice charges related to Enron Corp. document shredding.

A simultaneous blend of production capacity and capital dollars, tossed together with significant growth in electric generation, created the perfect “aligning of the planets” to finally make a serious go at building a subsea natural gas pipeline from Nova Scotia to the northeast United States, with a possible end point of New York City, said one of the executives involved in the planning.

A simultaneous blend of production capacity and capital dollars, tossed together with significant growth in electric generation, created the perfect “aligning of the planets” to finally make a serious go at building a subsea natural gas pipeline from Nova Scotia to the northeast United States, with a possible end point of New York City, said one of the executives involved in the planning.

On the heels of a spectacular discovery on its turf, Canada’sNorthwest Territories has tossed a red hot potato into the lap ofthe nation’s natural gas community. The government in Yellowknifeis calling on the National Energy Board to take control of the11,000-mile Nova pipeline grid’s tolls and development away fromthe Alberta government.

On the heels of a spectacular discovery on its turf, Canada’sNorthwest Territories has tossed a red hot potato into the lap ofthe nation’s natural gas community. The government in Yellowknifeis calling on the National Energy Board to take control of the11,000-mile Nova pipeline grid’s tolls and development away fromthe Alberta government.