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Utilities that have been urging their customers to conserve energy over recent years found out something very interesting last Thursday — consumers are actually listening, according to a new report from the American Gas Association (AGA).

Utilities that have been urging their customers to conserve energy over recent years found out something very interesting on Thursday — consumers are actually listening, according to a new report from the American Gas Association (AGA).

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued an advisory bulletin urging owners and operators of liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants to be vigilant in securing their facilities in the wake of the breach at KeySpan Corp.’s Lynn, MA, storage site in August.

A coalition of Alaska Natives, fishermen and environmental groups sent an “open letter” last Wednesday to President Bush, urging him not to remove the presidential ban on oil and natural gas drilling in the pristine, fisheries-rich Bristol Bay.

A coalition of Alaska Natives, fishermen and environmental groups sent an “open letter” Wednesday to President Bush, urging him not to remove the presidential ban on oil and natural gas drilling in the pristine, fisheries-rich Bristol Bay.

The New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel has filed a brief urging the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) and the administrative law judge (ALJ) hearing the case to reject the pending merger of Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) with Exelon Corp. as currently proposed. The initial brief was filed by New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel Director Seema Sing.

A bipartisan coalition of 115 lawmakers led by Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) has sent a letter to a House appropriations subcommittee urging it to once again include the congressional moratorium on drilling in much of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the fiscal 2007 spending bill for the Interior Department and related agencies.

Northwest Territories Energy Minister Brendan Bell is urging Canadian and American producers alike to get on with arctic pipeline projects, warning them that waiting could make them uneconomic because of overseas imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Urging market participants to move beyond the traditional risk management tools when trading natural gas futures, Tom Saal, of Commercial Brokerage Corp., said Wednesday that it is important to develop new techniques for identifying price trends and market timing. One pretty good way of identifying a “buy” signal recently has been simply observing how short the funds, or noncommercial traders, are.