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Obama administration kills more potential US jobs

By zzyzzx   Follow   Thu, 31 May 2012, 10:43am   248 views   1 comment
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U.S. Gas Exports Put on Back Burner

The Obama administration is telling Japan and other allied countries they will have to wait before moving forward on plans to buy American natural gas, people involved in the talks said.

A dramatic increase in U.S. natural-gas production has led several U.S. companies, including Sempra Energy and Dominion Resources Inc., to seek permits from the Department of Energy to export gas to countries that lack free-trade agreements with the U.S. Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Rex Tillerson said Wednesday his company was looking at exporting from the U.S. Gulf Coast and Canada.

Sempra and Dominion are working with Japanese partners ...

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1. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

   1   11:54am Thu 31 May 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   Perhaps, but it's good for domestic natural gas consumers. Hey, if other countries can do "resource nationalism" than why can't we?