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Project Finance - April, 2012

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• Chesapeake CEO Faces 2 More Investor Suits Over $1B In Loans
• Half Of $170M Wyo. Wind Farm Postponed Amid Challenges
• Qatar To Invest $250M In Barclays PE Energy Plays
• Dems' Bill Would Slash Oil Tax Breaks, Boost Clean Energy
• Judge Kills City's Fight Over $525M SC Port Project
• UGL, CH2M Win $550M Slice Of Ichthys LNG Project
• Shiver Me Timbers!: A Blow To Forest Service Activities
• Energy Transfer Plans $5.3B Sunoco Takeover
• Calif. Won't Give Funds To Cities Banning Project Labor Deals
• IFC Raises $500M In US Green Bond Issue
• FERC OKs Feasibility Permit For 2,000-MW Hydro Project
• Enerjisa Gets €135M For Turkey's Largest Wind Farm
• Enagas To Split $352M Bill For Stake In Chilean LNG Plant
• Marcellus Industry Group To Unveil Gas Drilling Guidelines
• DOE Broadens Enviro Review Of $11B Blackstone Power Line
• Ill. State Senate Passes Fracking Regulation Bill
• Diaz Reus Accesses Iraq With Newton Partnership
• TransCanada To Spend $7B On Energy Projects By 2015
• Iamgold To Spend $620M On Gold-Rich Trelawney Mining
• Canadian Energy Co. Nabs Minority Stake In Peru Project
• Salamander Raises $201M For Asian Oil, Gas Exploration
• $12B Oil Deals Hint At Closer Ties For Korea, Venezuela
• EPA's New Source Performance Standards For CO2
• Intrepid Gets Nod For New $230M Potash Mine In NM
• FERC Seeks Input On 660-MW Texas Hydroelectric Proposal
• GOP Co-Opts 'Fairy Tale' Attack To Push Own Energy Plan
• Sierra Club Says Settlement Blocks Dominion LNG Plant
• Suits Over Chesapeake CEO's $1.1B Loans Face High Bar
• Senate Energy Committee Moves 4 Key Nominees Forward
• Senate Committee Approves $119M For NJ Water Projects
• Sierra Keeps $3B Coal Plant Fight Alive In Miss. Court
• Cuomo Unveils $450M Energy Efficiency Effort
• EDF, Eneco Partner On 1,200-MW UK Offshore Wind Farm
• Implicit Wants GoMex Sanctioned In Oil Well Joint Venture Row
• EnQuest To Grab Majority Stake In UK Oil Field Project
• Duke-Sumitomo Venture Lands $353M For Kan. Wind Farms
• Operationalizing Law Department Performance Metrics
• ND Regulators Sign Off On 250-Mile Power Line Project
• EIB Considers $127M Clean Energy Loans To China
• Calif. Panel OKs Bill Seeking Cost Analysis On Delta Plan
• Brazilian Lawmaker Can't Kick Charges Over $11.6M Scheme
• DR Horton Gives Up Drilling Rights For NC Homes
• IEA Sets $5T Goal For Investments In Clean Energy By 2020
• Vinson Steers BreitBurn In $98M Bighorn Oil Buy
• GOP Sens. Seek Action On House Energy, Enviro Bills
• Kinder Morgan To Pay $300M For Half Of Gas Pipeline System
• Kvaerner Secures $150M Contract For Exxon Project
• Calif. Rep. Seeks Federal Funds For LA Transit Plans
• Subcontractor Says It's Owed $17M For Army Base Work
• Halcon Eyes Oil Reserve Boost In $1B GeoResources Deal
• State Law Dictates Renewable Energy Credit Ownership: FERC
• As NY Eyes Fracking, Foes Attack Economic Benefit Claims
• Statoil Takes 35% Stake In Hess' Ghana Deepwater Project
• Rio Tinto, Chalco Top Off $1.35B African Iron Ore Venture
• Abertis Makes $2B Deal For Toll Projects In Brazil, Chile
• Fostering Wind Energy Development In The Great Lakes
• Unions Rip Blackstone Power Project While NYC Pol Backs It
• Chicago Approves $1B Public-Private Infrastructure Trust
• Calif. Senate Panel Greenlights Carbon Capture Bill
• GOP Keystone Measure In Doubt As Dem's Support Wavers
• DOT Offers Calif. Highway Projects Up To $764M In Loans
• BOEM Considers First Offshore Hydrokinetic Power Lease
• Enviros Want Wheels Off Wash. Highway Project
• $110M Bond Sale Finances Peru Port Expansion
• House Energy Committee Takes Up GOP-Backed Fuel Price Bills
• Controversial $3B Coal Plant Gets 2nd Thumbs Up From Miss.
• Sierra Club Asks DOE To Block La. LNG Export Facility
• Interior Weighs In Against Mississippi River Hydro Project
• Salazar Rips GOP Energy 'Fairy Tales' In Legislation Push
• Ayala, Metro Pacific Team Up For Manila Light Rail Bids
• Indian Solar Farm Gets $103M Asian Development Bank Loan
• CST Sells $505M Peru Copper Mine Stake To Tin Giant Minsur
• Shell One-Ups Thai Rival With $1.9B Cove Buy
• Calif. Panel Siding Against Bill To Nix Rail Funding
• FERC To Rehear $9.5B Western Hydropower Pipeline Pitch
• Slaughter & May Guides PE Fund's £807M BAA Airport Buy
• Calif. Cities Say $2B Power Line's Rate Formula Shafts Users
• Vinson Nabs Energy Deals Expert From Herbert Smith
• $26B Duke, Progress Merger Plan Faces Antitrust Heat In SC
• Sunoco, Carlyle Mull Philadelphia Refinery Deal
• Promoting Ohio Co-Generation Projects
• US, UK To Fund Floating Turbines For Deepwater Wind Farms
• New FERC Rule Ramps Up Oversight On Market Manipulation
• Nuke Groups Ask DC Circ. To Nix DOE's $750M Yucca Fee
• Watchdog Disputes Ameren's $570M Smart Grid Savings Promise
• Banco Santander Takes $125M Stake In Ariz. Solar Plant
• DOT To Help Expedite $4B NiSource Gas Pipeline Upgrade
• Wragge Nabs Ex-Norton Rose Partner With Middle East Cred
• Enviros File DOE Protest Over Cheniere LNG Export Project
• Chesapeake Brass Sued Over $1.1B In Personal Loans
• DCP Says Transwestern Pipe Conversion Will Pinch Drillers
• Aussie Co. To Build $120M Hancock Mine Airfield, Roads
• Encana Finds Gas Price Hedge In $600M Toyota Deal
• How The EPA Aims To Kill Coal
• House GOP Challenges NRC Chief's Votes On Nuke Projects
• USFS Accused Of Bias In Suit Over Fast-Tracked Wind Farm
• EPA Greenlights 50-MW Wood-Burning Electric Plant In Mass.
• Exxon Cut Out Of New Iraqi Oil Leases Due To Kurdish Deals
• Cheap Shale Gas Prompts Dow Plans For $1.7B Ethylene Plant
• Avanti Scores $640M In Financing For Canadian Mine Dig
• DTE Energy To Build 4th Wind Park In Mich.
• Thirst For Power Quenched, Dubai Defers $1.3B Gas Plant
• TransCanada Draws Up New Keystone Routes Through Neb.
• Brazilian Co. Pursues $6B Hydro Power Plant In Mozambique
• Tailor-Made: New Title Insurance For Energy Projects
• Hogan Lovells Boosts Asian Presence With Indonesian Tie-Up
• Chevron Says Bankrupt Co-Developer Can't Sell Solar Projects
• Chesapeake Oil Field Affiliate Gears Up For $863M IPO
• DOE Loan Boosts Have Bred Mixed Results, GAO Study Finds
• Syncora Says $496M Toll-Road Bonds Had Hidden Potholes
• State Can't Intervene In FERC Cases, Mo. High Court Rules
• House Passes Bill To Force Approval Of Keystone XL
• Empyrean Lands $50M Macquarie Loan For Texas Shale Project
• Enviros Sue Mont. To Enforce Coal Mine Water Rules
• DOE Budget Chief Defends Agency Spending Hikes
• FERC Deals Alaska Pipeline Owners Setback On Rate Hikes
• Docket Diving: Strategic Uses Of Online Docket Info
• Calif. Official Presses For Funds For $68B High-Speed Train
• Calif. Panel Mulls Bill To Send $68B Rail Project To Voters
• Calif. Appeals Court Rebuffs Challenge To Light Rail Project
• Scotiabank Sued Over Lost Contract For Chilean Toll Project
• White House Threatens Highway Bill Veto Over Pipeline
• FERC Approves Cheniere LNG Export Project
• FERC Kills Jordan Cove LNG Project After Export Switch
• UK Geology Experts Back Fracking With Strings Attached
• Dewey Loses 8 To Hunton & Williams, Pillsbury
• NY Biz Group Rips Proposed $1B Tax To Fund MTA Projects
• Ariya Capital Forges African Energy Project Venture
• Mongolia Balks At China's SouthGobi Coal Mine Takeover Bid
• Mitsubishi, Mitsui Join Sempra's $6B LNG Export Project
• FERC Price Cap For Exxon Pipeline Overturned By DC Circ.
• Canadian Solar Cos. Ink $187M Purchase, JV Deals
• CH. Karnchang Keeps $1.6B Hydro Contract In-House
• Pipeline Co. Withdraws $1B Bid For Rival SemGroup
• Ex-Im Bank Fight Imperils US Role In Project Boom: Experts
• Army Corps Says Suit Over $650M Harbor Project Is Early
• Calif. Senate Panel Gives Go-Ahead To Carbon Capture Bill
• House Dems Blast GOP's Fuel Standard, Gas Leasing Bills
• Texas Court Reverses ConocoPhillips' Oil Field Stake Win
• Cheniere Locks In $4B Of Debt For $10B LNG Export Plant
• NYC Scraps Waste-To-Energy Plant Plans For Old Dump Site
• Jones Day Adds Addleshaw Project Finance Atty In London
• Fed. Circ. Trims Entergy's $106M Nuclear Waste Award
• Prudential Capital Launches Energy Finance Group In Dallas
• Don't Raise Electric Rates To Fund Solar, NY Biz Group Says
• Enviros Ask DC Circ. To Block Ga. Nuke Plant Expansion
• Sierra Club Fights Freeport LNG Export Bid
• Exxon, Rosneft Unveil $3.2B Russian Arctic Oil Deal
• Chinese Power Giant Gets Nod For 48-MW Wind Farm
• Curtis Adds Veteran Islamic Finance Partner In NY
• EDF, Mitsui Enter Moroccan Market With Wind Farm Deal
• International Power OKs GDF Suez's New $11B Takeover Bid
• Now Bigger In Texas: Oil And Gas Refund Opportunities
• Q&A With Greenberg Traurig's Enid Veron
• Alaska Blasts Pipeline Owners' Claims In $786M FERC Row
• Faegre Baker Adds Former Evansville Mayor As Counsel
• Ex-Im Bank Grants $80M Loan For Indian Solar Project
• Key Takeaways From Southern Peru
• $2.1B Virginia Tunnel Project Snags $422M Federal Loan
• Obama Launches Gas Development Working Group
• China Power Leader Lands $2.4B Indian Plant Contract
• Sierra Club Says BLM Wind Project Violates ESA, NEPA
• Calif. Officials Get On Board With $68B High-Speed Train Plan
• FWS Presses For Eagle Permit Changes To Boost Wind Energy
• Ex-Im Prez Warns Possible Shutdown Would 'Disarm' US Cos.
• Churchill Takes $2B Indonesian Mine Row International
• Kinder Morgan Launches $5B Canadian Oil Pipeline Expansion
• Solar Co. BrightSource Shuts Off Plans For $180M IPO
• Fisheries Service Draws Fire Over Stalled Hydro Projects
• Possible NY Fracking Deal Prompts Warning From Enviros
• Allen & Overy Adds Gleiss Public Law Atty In Frankfurt
• Enterprise, Anadarko To Build Texas-Colo. Wet Gas Pipeline
• Souping Up MISO's Interconnection Queue Procedures
• DCP Midstream Sinks $85M Into Texas Pipeline Project
• Alternative Energy Claims SEC Wants It To Go Bankrupt
• Calif.'s $120M NRG Deal Raises Competition Issues, Group Says
• Sierra Club Hammers Out Deal With Ga. Coal Plant Developer
• Sunoco Partnership Preps 3rd Texas Pipeline Project
• Steelmakers Urge Action On Transportation, Currency Bills
• Fracking Notice Bill Moves Forward In Calif. Senate
• Neb. Passes Bill To Resume Keystone Pipeline Review
• China Imposes Back-Dated Fee On Foreign Energy Ventures
• House Committee Demands More Interior Drilling Ban Info
• Squire Sanders Expands In Asia With Singapore Office
• FERC Asks Duke, Progress For More Info On Merger Plans
• BHP Pumps $708M Into Gulf Oil Venture With BP, Chevron
• Splitting EPC Contracts In Energy Projects
• Calif. Group Derides Wave Power Permit Bid
• Utility Says Utah's $4.5M Demand Is Stalling Power Lines
• $68B Calif. Rail Plan Draws Scrutiny Over Fund Use, Conflicts
• DC Circ. Mulls Merits Of Oil Tycoon's $500M Freshfields Suit
• Feds Dispute Christie's Reason For Axing $12B Hudson Tunnel
• PVR Cuts Coal Reliance, Gains PE Backer In $1B Gas Buy
• Mayer Brown Adds Partner From Morrison To Projects Group
• Kyocera, IHI, Mizuho To Build Japan's Biggest Solar Farm
• Sierra Club Sues Ohio For Public Lands Drilling Plans
• NYC Enviro Regulator Seeks Permit For Upstate Hydro Plant
• Kepco Unit Inks 10-Year, $3.4B Gas Deal With Vitol
• GE To Sell Off 225 MW Of Capacity In NY Smart Grid Project
• Oneok To Drop Up To $1.8B On Bakken Shale Pipeline
• Tenaska Locks In $500M Loan For 1st Foray Into Solar
• China Announces New 650-MW Reactor At Qinshan Site
• Calif. Groups Ask FERC To Nix Wave Energy Plant Bid
• Enviros Slam Bid To Have FERC Rehear $9.5B Pipeline Pitch
• France Hands Out €7B Worth Of Offshore Wind Contracts
• DOE To Release $15M To Fund Bio-Oil Research
• FERC Cans Maine Gas Import Plan After 2 Years In Limbo
• DOE Touts Renewable Energy Program's Economic Benefits
• DOE Veteran Joins Dickstein Shapiro
• Alliant's $392M Offer For 600-MW Calpine Plant Approved
• Contractor Says NYC's Enviro Delays Bled It Of $32M
• Ukraine Signs On To $10B Trans-Caspian Pipeline
• Fueling The Fight For GHG Standards
• Cap-And-Trade Funds For $68B Calif. Rail Project To Spur Suits
• Green Groups Say Ore. Wind Farm Would Mar Landscape
• Calif. JV Gets Go-Ahead On $486M Light Rail Project
• DOE Gets Ready For New Round Of Green Loan Guarantees
• New Nuclear Licenses Unlikely This Year, Experts Say
• Oil Hedge Fund BlueGold To Shut Down
• Nebraska Keystone Bill Gains Second-Round Approval
• Russia's Gazprom Joins Vietnam Offshore Drilling
• ConocoPhillips Cuts Funding For $16B Canadian Pipeline
• Swedish Developer Snags 500-MW Norwegian Wind Portfolio
• Judge Orders New Enviro Review On Calif. Highway Project
• Predictive Coding — Cost Savings If Investment Is Made
• Dechert Takes Over Chadbourne's Kazakhstan Office
• GAO Questions Pentagon's Clean-Energy Funding Strategy
• US Strikes $7.5M Deal With Grand Central Tunnel Contractors
• DOE Rushed Treasury Review Of $535M Solyndra Loan: Report
• Oneok Plans $160M Bakken Gas Delivery System
• FERC Approves Remainder Of Marcellus Shale Pipeline
• FERC Dangles $78M Settlement Loot As NY Mulls Grid Upgrade
• Oil Tycoon Grabs Majority Stake In 377-MW Wind Farm
• Palm Springs Says Wind Farm Approval Process Was Proper
• Germany OKs $4B Offshore Wind Farm Amid Grid Delay Fears
• FERC OKs Kinder Morgan's Rate Hike Deal With Airlines
• Top Republican Subpoenas Interior For Drilling Ban Info
• EPA Carbon Rule Would Curb Coal, Boost Gas Power Plants
• UK Pledges $1.6B To Spark Carbon Capture Plan
• NYC Wins Big As Cuomo Divvies Up $1.2B Project Loot
• Macquarie Plans $2B North American Infrastructure Fund
• Riverkeeper Flays Enviro Plan For $5B Tappan Zee Rebuild
• Aquila Sells Coal Stakes To Fund $3B Iron Ore Project
• DOI Unveils Plans For Faster Oil, Gas Permitting
• Highway Agency OKs New Ramps For $3B Queens Project
• Altona Enlists Chinese Firm For Clean Coal Ventures
• Origin Takes Majority Stake In Xstrata's Chile Hydro Co.
• Cairn Adds North Sea Oil Wells With $450M Agora Buy
• FWS Wind Energy Guidelines For A Wild(life) World
• Calif. Unifies Track To Cut $30B From High-Speed Train Plan
• EPA Delays Fracking Air Pollution Rule For 3rd Time
• Solar Millennium Units Seek Ch. 11 Amid Project Funding Woes
• Nstar May Pay $940M Extra For Cape Wind Power
• Texas Court Kills Antitrust Case Against Exxon Affiliate
• GE Grabs Majority Stake In $375M Wind Development
• Private Cash Funds $2B Canada-NYC Power Line, Backer Says
• Atlantic Boosts Stake In 300-MW Okla. Wind Farm
• Manatt Reels In Film Financing Expert From O'Melveny
• IMIC Follows Rio Tinto, BHP Into Africa's Iron Ore Reserves
• KKR Buys $306M In Gas Assets As Prices Hit 10-Year Low
• Navigating History: Mont. And State Riverbed Ownership