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A federal district court judge in Pennsylvania has ordered tree-clearing activities for the proposed Constitution natural gas pipeline to proceed, making clear that anyone interfering with the work would be arrested and held in contempt of court.

FERC has given Constitution Pipeline Co. LLC permission to begin cutting trees in Pennsylvania for its $683 million natural gas pipeline — which would transport gas from the Marcellus Shale to markets in the northeast — but withheld permission for the clearing of trees in neighboring New York State.

Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. intends to drill at least four Utica Shale test wells in Ohio this year, the Houston-based independent exploration and production company said Tuesday.

Borrowing from the old question about whether a tree falling in a deserted forest actually makes a sound, gas futures market observers wondered Thursday whether the 44 Bcf storage injection reported by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) actually had any market impact because no one seemed to notice its release.

Borrowing from the old question about whether a tree falling in a deserted forest actually makes a sound, gas futures market observers wondered Thursday whether the 44 Bcf storage injection reported by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) actually had any market impact because no one seemed to notice its release.

The first fruit has fallen from the new Canadian tree ofcompetition among natural gas transporters, as TransCanadaPipeLines prepares to auction spare capacity that is developing onits system.

The first fruit has fallen from the new Canadian tree ofcompetition among natural gas transporters, as TransCanadaPipeLines prepares to auction spare capacity that is developing onits system.