Warily

Serious Canadian energy investment and equally focused environmental interests are warily eyeing each other in and around the Uinta Basin in southeastern Utah, where energy developers see an extension of their oilsands plays in Western Canada, and a group called Living Rivers warns of a potential environmental and public health disaster.

With little fanfare and against a prevailing perception that private sector energy firms are looking warily at the West, Michigan-based CMS Energy last Wednesday announced it is opening a San Francisco office for its marketing, services and trading businesses, with a new director of western marketing operations, Laird Dyer, who was formerly with Enron and Pacific Gas Transmission in San Francisco.

With little fanfare and against a prevailing perception that private sector energy firms are looking warily at the West, Michigan-based CMS Energy last Wednesday announced it is opening a San Francisco office for its marketing, services and trading businesses, with a new director of western marketing operations, Laird Dyer, who was formerly with Enron and Pacific Gas Transmission in San Francisco.

As the nation continues to creep warily forward into natural gasand electricity deregulation on all fronts, Cinergy Corp.understands that in order to take advantage of the full potentialof its companies it must change as well. The company announcedyesterday that it is embracing a new organizational structure thatwill increase the autonomy of its subsidiaries and focus on thegrowing importance of non-regulated markets.

As the nation continues to creep warily forward into natural gasand electricity deregulation on all fronts, Cinergy Corp.understands that in order to take advantage of the full potentialof its companies it must change as well. The company announcedyesterday that it is embracing a new organizational structure thatwill increase the autonomy of its subsidiaries and focus on thegrowing importance of non-regulated markets.