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British Columbia Cuts LNG Export Taxes, Adds Corporate Incentives

The British Columbia (BC) government chopped its liquefied natural gas export tax in half Tuesday and added corporate tax cuts as lure to build tanker terminals on Canada's Pacific coast. Read More

Arizona Eyes Robust Winter Gas Supplies, Warmer Weather

Arizona regulators said Tuesday in an annual conference with major suppliers and distributors in Phoenix that the state has robust natural gas supplies for this winter, which is expected to be warmer and wetter than normal. Read More

PG&E, Consumer Group Spar Over Emails at Rate Hearing

A utility consumer watchdog group won a partial victory Monday in its attempt to hold up an ongoing Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) natural gas pipeline and storage rate case until the utility turns over more of the emails it has revealed over the past four weeks showing communications violations with state regulators, some of which were centered on the gas case. Read More

California Cap-Trade Faces Increased Risks, Report Says

At the start of next year, California will try to do something that to date has not been done anywhere: include gasoline and diesel fuel sales under its ongoing cap-and-trade emissions trading program that currently only involves power plants, refineries and large industrial complexes. A report released Thursday raises questions about the viability of the effort. Read More

Second California Regulator Drops Out of PG&E Penalty Case

A second California regulator mixed up in the email communications violations tied to Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) has excused himself from a pending review of two regulatory judges' proposed $1.4 billion in penalties for PG&E's negligence in a fatal natural gas transmission pipeline rupture and explosion four years ago. Read More

Virginia's Energy Vision Supports Pipelines, Offshore Drilling, Vehicle Conversions

Virginia will pursue offshore oil and natural gas drilling; support the improvement and expansion of intrastate and interstate gas pipelines; and expand... Read More

Connecticut Heating Oil Group Sues Over NatGas Expansion

The Connecticut Energy Marketers Association (CEMA), which represents heating oil and gasoline dealers, filed a lawsuit against the state Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) on Friday, accusing regulators of failing to assess environmental impacts from a plan to expand natural gas infrastructure in Connecticut. Read More

Industry Expecting Clarity From Contentious NEB Pipeline Case

A simmering dispute boiled over Thursday into a formal duel over a Canadian constitutional law question before the National Energy Board (NEB): Can municipal governments block national and international pipeline projects? Read More

New Infrastructure, Not Scheduling Changes, Will Cure Shortages, Says National Fuel Gas CEO

Revamping natural gas markets without building new infrastructure isn’t likely to provide the access to gas... Read More

Peevey Departing CPUC at Year-End Amid Ex Parte Scandal

California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) President Michael Peevey won’t seek another term after his expires at the end of this year, he said Thursday after more revelations emerged of inappropriate communications with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) executives. Read More