Unfair

Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham took the not-so-original position of blaming pollsters and the media Wednesday for unfairly criticizing the administration’s energy plan. He said they’re simply using the wrong measuring stick by singling out issues that are obviously disliked the most, such as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, while many of the other important issues are never even mentioned, let alone subjected to public opinion polls.

Natural gas pipeline carrier Enogex Inc. is awaiting a report,which could be released today, from the Oklahoma CorporationCommission (OCC) and the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office of itsallegations that it was wrongly disqualified from the biddingprocess that Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. uses to select transmissionservices for its customers.

Alleging the law that created the framework for a deregulatedelectric market in Nevada will be detrimental and unfair to theirstockholders and their customers, Nevada Power and Sierra PacificPower filed in federal court yesterday to have the law declaredunconstitutional.

There is an unfair advantage in using the name of a 140-year-oldutility when marketing gas in Georgia, the state public servicecommission ruled Friday, ordering Atlanta Gas Light Services (AGLS)to market gas in the state under a different brand until AtlantaGas Light Co. exits the merchant function.