Urges

U.S. Rep. Robert Filner of California has called on FERC to rescind a Presidential Permit and Section 3 NGA Authorization for the U.S. leg of the proposed North Baja Pipeline while the agency re-opens its environmental review of the project to address the potential cross-border pollution from Mexican power plants that would be served by the natural gas line.

Without ever once mentioning the financial collapse or scandal that has pervaded Enron Corp., President Bush last Thursday called on federal regulators to mete out stiffer punishments to corporate officers who abuse their positions and provide “grossly inaccurate” information to investors. Bush also said he favored the creation of an independent board to oversee the accounting profession.

Without ever once mentioning the financial collapse or scandal that has pervaded Enron Corp., President Bush Thursday called on federal regulators to mete out stiffer punishments to corporate officers who abuse their positions and provide “grossly inaccurate” information to investors. Bush also urged regulators to create an independent board to oversee the accounting profession.

The American Gas Association’s weekly gas storage report has been the cause of “substantial and largely unwarranted price volatility in the natural gas marketplace,” the American Public Gas Association (APGA) said last week in comments regarding the planned continuation of the AGA report by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). APGA said it will be EIA’s duty, when it takes up the storage survey next spring, to make sure that “unwarranted” price volatility does not continue.

The American Gas Association’s weekly gas storage report has been the cause of “substantial and largely unwarranted price volatility in the natural gas marketplace,” the American Public Gas Association said this week in comments regarding the planned continuation of the AGA report by the Energy Information Administration. APGA said it will be EIA’s duty, when it takes up the storage survey next spring, to make sure that “unwarranted” price volatility does not continue.

Consumers may want to review their gas supply options as their current contracts expire, the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel (OCC) advised, following up on announcements late last month that Columbia Gas of Ohio and Dominion East Ohio have filed requests to lower their regulated gas rates for the upcoming quarter beginning October 26.

Consumers may want to review their gas supply options as their current contracts expire, the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel (OCC) advised, following up on announcements late last month that Columbia Gas of Ohio and Dominion East Ohio have filed requests to lower their regulated gas rates for the upcoming quarter beginning October 26.

The American Public Gas Association (APGA) has called on the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to begin collecting and distributing “relevant and timely” natural gas production and consumption information on a regular basis to help temper the “extreme price swings” in the market.

With the withdrawal of pipeline projects upstream of Millennium in Canada by some of the pipeline’s sponsors, the Town of Cortlandt, NY, has asked FERC to hold the application for the 442-mile U.S. pipeline in abeyance until the project’s sponsors can explain the situation.