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Dominion Transmission Inc.’s (DTI) proposed tariff filing would “undermine” FERC’s right-of-first-refusal (ROFR) policy by allowing the pipeline to extend expiring shipper service agreements without first giving competitors a chance to bid on capacity under those agreements, said Shell NA LNG LLC and other shippers on the pipeline.

While the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chases the trail of some long-gone transaction in pursuit of retroactive refunds for a few consumers, it may be harming the many who depend on the efficient functioning of the competitive market, Duke Energy said in asking the Commission to narrow the window for challenges.

While the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chases the trail of some long-gone transaction in pursuit of retroactive refunds for a few consumers, it may be harming the many who depend on the efficient functioning of the competitive market, Duke Energy said in asking the Commission to narrow the window for challenges.

The “relentless, aggressive and malicious” environmental public relations machine is succeeding in delaying and restricting natural gas development in the Rocky Mountains “with no regard for the impact on the national gas supply” — and the situation is getting worse, not better.

The “relentless, aggressive and malicious” environmental public relations machine is succeeding in delaying and restricting natural gas development in the Rocky Mountains “with no regard for the impact on the national gas supply” — and the situation is getting worse, not better.

Legal due-process questions and procedural shortcuts may eventually undermine the ultimate decisions by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in its pending California energy market manipulation cases, according to two attorneys representing Pacific Northwest energy companies with stakes in the federal proceedings. They spoke Thursday at a two-day industry conference, “Buying and Selling Electric Power in the West,” in Seattle.

Alliance Pipeline L.P. contends its 1,900-mile Canada-to-Midwest system and a number of other new pipelines that have cropped up over the past six years wouldn’t be here if it hadn’t been for FERC’s negotiated rate policy. If some pipes are abusing the policy, then the Commission should make specific changes to remedy the situation, but it shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water, it said.

A new administrative decision subjecting transportation ofelectricity to New York’s sales tax has the potential to underminethe state’s fledgling efforts to restructure its retail powermarkets, says the head of a trade group representing energymarketers and other suppliers.