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Wasting no time in making its presence felt in North America, Gazprom Marketing & Trading Ltd. (GM&T), a subsidiary of Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, jointly announced Tuesday with France’s EDF Trading an agreement to swap natural gas between the United States and United Kingdom markets.

While the fate of the Alaska pipeline project remains far from certain and any federal application for its construction could be years away, the federal government is wasting no time preparing for the application process. The Department of Energy (DOE) said Thursday that it has joined 14 other federal departments and agencies in signing an agreement to expedite the permitting and construction of the project.

Wasting no time in his first day on the job, California’s just-sworn-in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an executive order suspending all proposed new regulations and initiating a massive review of all regulations “adopted, amended or repealed in the last five years.”

Wasting no time in his first day on the job, California’s just-sworn-in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an executive order suspending all proposed new regulations and initiating a massive review of all regulations “adopted, amended or repealed in the last five years.”

Canadians are wasting no time making sure production capacitykeeps up with increases in demand for natural gas that pipelineprojects are expected to generate over the next two years,according to an annual deliverability survey released last week bythe Canadian Energy Research Institute. Not even this year’s 30%drop in oil prices hurt producer revenues and budgets enough toslow down gas development.

Canadians are wasting no time making sure production capacitykeeps up with increases in demand for natural gas that pipelineprojects are expected to generate over the next two years,according to an annual deliverability survey released last week bythe Canadian Energy Research Institute. Not even this year’s 30%drop in oil prices hurt producer revenues and budgets enough toslow down gas development.