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...About three-quarters of CPAs are now at or near retirement age, and the pipeline looks threadbare....
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...The Nord Stream 1 pipeline, European perimeter gas imports from Ukraine and the Groningen field in the Netherlands each have daily supply capacity of about 30 mcm....
...He cited the cases of US energy group Enron, which collapsed in 2001 after short seller Jim Chanos helped expose its dubious accounting practices, and of India’s Adani Group, whose frothy valuations were...
...“We don’t have that ability to build an interstate transmission line....
...Interstate competition to secure the next billion-dollar investment is fierce....
...But California Burning most comprehensively puts the meat on the bone, told with a style not unlike The Smartest Guys in the Room, about the Enron collapse, or even Ida Tarbell’s History of the Standard...
...However, states also have power to block interstate transmission projects....
...It has done this “by moving the action away from multilateral interstate negotiations and toward networks of private actors”....
...Remember Enron? It collapsed just 20 years ago. Enron was going to dominate gas, power and wind energy trading....
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...After the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in the Virginias — expected next year — there are unlikely to be any other big new interstate projects any time soon....
...He has picked Richard Glick, a critic of Mountain Valley’s permitting process, to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees interstate gas pipeline construction....
...What the situation further reflects is that we as a society seem to have learned very little from historic crises bearing similar fundamentals, among them the 2008 global financial crisis, the Enron crisis...
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...Clearing a path for linear infrastructure — such as highways, oil pipelines or electric transmission — always encounters resistance....
...Somewhere in PHE’s data pipeline, someone had used the wrong Excel file format, XLS rather than the more recent XLSX....
...Abel had worked side-by-side with Sokol, negotiating some of its most complex deals, including a purchase of natural gas lines following Enron’s collapse that was done in the course of a weekend....
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