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The ramifications of California’s natural gas transmission pipeline rupture and explosion last year are still largely unknown until federal and state efforts to address stepped up safety measures are fully fleshed out, two gas industry analysts at Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P) told NGI Monday.

The fate of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s bill that proposes drilling reforms in federal waters was unknown Thursday after a group of senators walked out of a mark-up session following a flare-up over the hot button issue of increasing the coastal states’ share of revenues from energy production.

The fate of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s bill that proposes drilling reforms in federal waters was unknown Thursday after a group of senators walked out of a mark-up session following a flare-up over the hot button issue of increasing the coastal states’ share of revenues from energy production.

Whether treated wastewater from natural gas drilling sites will be more extensively analyzed for radiation levels still is an unknown, but at least two Pennsylvania water systems don’t plan to wait and will step up radiological tests, officials said last week.

Whether wastewater from natural gas drilling sites will be more extensively analyzed for radiation levels still is an unknown, but some Pennsylvania water systems don’t plan to wait and will step up radiological tests, officials said this week.

Whether wastewater from natural gas drilling sites will be more extensively analyzed for radiation levels still is an unknown, but some Pennsylvania water systems don’t plan to wait and will step up radiological tests, officials said this week.

As a flurry of well site bombings by still-unknown protesters in 2008 and 2009 fades into history, plans are advancing to accelerate natural gas development near the Dawson Creek starting point of the Alaska Highway in northeastern British Columbia (BC).

As a flurry of well site bombings by still-unknown protesters in 2008 and 2009 fades into history, plans are advancing to accelerate natural gas development near the Dawson Creek starting point of the Alaska Highway in northeastern British Columbia (BC).

The global financial crisis is affecting FERC-related projects and programs, but how deeply it may impact the sector in 2009 is still unknown, said FERC Commissioner Philip Moeller, adding that the impact on renewables is already pronounced.