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A consumer advocacy group and environmental organization on Monday urged FERC to deny a request by Dominion Cove Point LNG to exempt a 800 MMcf/d sendout capacity expansion of the company’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in eastern Maryland from the agency’s open-season and cost-of-service regulations.

Freeport LNG Development LP last Monday urged FERC to expeditiously approve its request to enlarge the diameter of the proposed sendout pipeline that would serve its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal to be sited on Quintana Island in Brazoria County, TX.

Freeport LNG Development LP on Monday urged FERC to expeditiously approve its request to enlarge the diameter of the proposed sendout pipeline that would serve its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal to be sited on Quintana Island in Brazoria County, TX.

Citing high gas prices and declining production, industrial companies and municipal gas utilities urged Interior Secretary Gale Norton last week to include language in the agency’s next five-year oil and gas leasing plan (2007-2012) that will allow for lease sales in areas currently subject to drilling moratoria.

The American Public Gas Association (APGA), which represents the nation’s public gas systems, urged Interior Secretary Gale Norton to include language in the agency’s next five-year oil and gas leasing plan (2007-2012) that allows for lease sales in areas currently subject to drilling moratoria.

Citing high natural gas prices and imports and declining domestic production, a group of industrials Monday urged the Department of the Interior (DOI) to include all the federal areas currently under moratoria in its development of a new five-year leasing program starting in 2007.

In declaring that “four years of debate is enough,” President Bush Wednesday night urged both houses of Congress to pass broad energy legislation during the upcoming months.

FERC should try to carve out a case precedent for dealing with transmission market power in the broader context of granting market-based rate authority to power companies, Craig Roach, a principal with Boston Pacific Co., said at a technical conference at the Commission last Tuesday.

Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski urged FERC on Friday to address his state’s access to a proposed Alaska natural gas pipeline as part of the agency’s efforts to create an open-season process for capacity on the line.