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Most of the 250 citizens and elected officials showing up Wednesday night at a U.S. Coast Guard hearing on BHP Billiton's proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal offshore Southern California opposed the project on safety and environmental grounds, according to a report in Thursday's Los Angeles Times. But there were supporters who cited various state assessments that California needs new sources of natural gas.

To create more electricity in the future while emitting less carbon will require a combination of energy sources, "but we believe that increasing the use of natural gas provides the most affordable, most efficient, most immediate and longer-term step in solving this conundrum," BP America Inc.'s Lamar McKay said Thursday.

The TransCanada Alaska Co. LLC (TC Alaska) natural gas pipeline is on target to complete an initial open season by the end of next July, according to a report by Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) coordinator Mark Myers.

FERC Friday issued a favorable final environmental review of Florida Gas Transmission's (FGT) proposal to construct 483 miles of pipeline facilities in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida to meet expanding natural gas-fired power generation demand in the Sunshine State.

Tres Palacios Gas Storage LLC, a subsidiary of Westport, CT-based NGS Investments LP, Wednesday asked FERC for clearance to place its entire storage header system in Texas in service on July 20.