Category Archives: Natural gas

WGL energy services unit paying $2.5 million to resolve fraud charges

Washington Gas Energy Systems has agreed to pay more than $2.5 million in fines to settle charges that it conspired with another company to fraudulently obtain federal contracts that were meant for small, disadvantaged businesses, resulting in the WGL…

 

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Algonquin Power to invest in New England gas pipeline

In what appears to be the company’s first investment in an interstate pipeline project, Algonquin Power Utilities Corp. announced Tuesday it will take a minority ownership stake in Kinder Morgan’s proposed Northeast Energy Direct pipeline…

 

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After long fight, Illinois regulators begin permitting fracking

After four years of regulatory wrangling that prevented drillers from using hydraulic fracking in oil and gas exploration in the state, Illinois regulators Tuesday began implementing final rules that will allow producers to seek state permits for fracking…

 

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Interior sees little interest in North Slope lease sale

Reflecting a distinct lack of industry interest in investing in oil and gas production on federal lands in Alaska without clear signals that the resources might ever be developed, the Department of Interior received bids of only $659,000 during its lease sale…

 

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EPA proposes tougher ozone standards, moves to expand monitoring

Saying new scientific studies show that its current 2008 ozone standard no longer adequately protects public health, the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed to tighten its primary standard for the smog-causing pollutant to a range of 65 to 70…

 

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British Columbia approves LNG export terminal, gas pipelines

In decisions meant to advance the fledgling liquefied natural gas export industry in British Columbia, provincial regulators last week approved Petronas’ Pacific NorthWest LNG export project and two massive gas pipelines proposed by TransCanada and…

 

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New Maryland fracking plan questioned by GOP governor-elect

With his eye firmly on the 2016 presidential race, outgoing Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley moved last week to lift a years-long moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in the state, but the Democrat’s call to impose some of the country’s toughest…

 

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North Dakota regulators chop fine for drilling waste dumping

In a low-key penalty for what has been a high-profile case, North Dakota regulators have dropped a proposed $800,000 fine against a drilling waste disposal company charged with dumping several garbage bags full of slightly radioactive filter socks in an…

 

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PG&E fined $1 million for for ex parte communications

The California Public Utilities Commission hit Pacific Gas Electric Co. with a $1.05 million fine Thursday for ex parte communications with commissioners in which the company pushed for, and eventually got, its preferred CPUC administrative law judge…

 

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Deal reached on drilling in sensitive Colorado area

Ending more than a decade of disputes over natural gas drilling in Colorado’s Roan Plateau region, the Interior Department, environmentalists and producers reached a legal settlement last week that will allow drilling in parts of the region while…

 

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