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- Vermont Gas kept quiet for months on pipeline price hike (8/12/14)
Vermont Gas knew in March that the first phase of its pipeline expansion project in Addison County would cost 40 percent more than the utility originally estimated, but the utility failed to tell the Public Service Board or the public until July because of an "overabundance of caution," the company says.
- New England needs to secure more natural gas capacity, pipeline operator suggests (8/6/14)
NEW YORK — New England power generators need to lock into more natural gas pipeline capacity to avoid a supply squeeze and record prices seen last winter, Spectra Energy Corp.’s chief executive officer said Wednesday.
- State seeks $35,000 Vermont Gas fine (7/31/14)
MONTPELIER- State regulators on Thursday asked for a $35,000 fine against Vermont Gas Systems for being slow to file a new and higher cost estimate for phase one of a natural gas pipeline expansion in western Vermont
- Yankee to break ground on $7B natural gas expansion (7/31/14)
Berlin utility Yankee Gas on Monday will break ground on its natural gas system expansion, part of a statewide plan to make natural gas the fuel of choice in Connecticut through the addition of 280,000 customers.
- Grid overseer seeks federal help to keep plans for Salem power plant alive (7/24/114)
The overseers of New England’s power grid have reached out to the federal government for help in ensuring a massive natural gas power plant planned for Salem can get off the ground
- Vermont Gas upbeat on pipeline mediation (8/12/14)
Monkton resident Claire Broughton, who has resisted Vermont Gas' earlier overtures, said late Tuesday afternoon that she hadn't been notified of the latest offer. Compensation for a right-of-way is a non-issue for Broughton.
- State seeks $35,000 Vermont Gas fine (8/1/14)
MONTPELIER — State regulators Thursday asked for a $35,000 fine against Vermont Gas Systems for being slow to file a new and higher cost estimate for phase one of a natural gas pipeline expansion in western Vermont
- Yankee breaks ground on $7B natural gas expansion (7/31/14)
Berlin utility Yankee Gas on Monday broke ground on its natural gas system expansion, part of a statewide plan to make natural gas the fuel of choice in Connecticut through the addition of 280,000 customers.
- Sit-in briefly disrupts Vermont Gas worksite (7/30/14)
WILLISTON – Bearing banners, protest songs and a symbolic "stop-work order," unexpected visitors to a Vermont Gas pipeline work site on Wednesday prompted a 90 minute pause in operations.
- PSNH president eyes energy crunch (7/10/14)
PORTSMOUTH — The new president of Public Service of New Hampshire said he sees a rocky few years ahead for New England — a time during which, at least for the short term, he expects the company's oil- and coal-fired plants to play a significant part.