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CEMA
Reminder: the moratorium on selling pre-paid heating fuel contracts that started on Nov. 1 ends at midnight, today, March 31, per state statute Section 16a-23v. Starting April 1, pre-paid or pre-buy guaranteed price contracts may be sold, and funds may be paid by customers for such contracts.
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CEMA
The utility tariffs for April 2016 are in and we compare them to average retail heating oil prices. The rates below are expressed in heating oil gallon equivalents, and so present gas rates on a British thermal unit (Btu) to Btu equivalent basis with heating oil. These are the system expansion tariffs, which apply to all conversions from heating oil to utility gas. The lower number applies if the home is within 150 feet of the gas main ("on main"), and the higher number applies if the home is more than 100 feet from the gas main ("off main").
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CEMA
The AREE trade show is moving from Atlantic City to Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut this year, and has teamed up with OESP (Oil & Energy Service Professionals), CITGO and the Pennsylvania Petroleum Association to form the new Eastern Energy Expo, May 22-26. For more information, please visit their website.
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CEMA
CEMA has announced its spring hazmat classes, providing certification at the Awareness level, and recertification at the Operations level, as described below. Hazmat training is required annually under OSHA statute 29 CFR 1910.1200 and every three years under DOT statute 49 CFR 172.704. We offer OSHA hazmat training at two levels, as described below — Awareness and Operations. DOT training is included at both these levels and includes topics such as placarding, making deliveries of hazardous materials and proper shipping paperwork.
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Politico via CEMA
Unless you've been living under a rock, then you know the news has been dominated by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and to a lesser degree Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Connecticut finally gets its turn this month, with our state primaries being held on April 26. Energy marketers may find relevant the views of the candidates on energy policy in general, and petroleum specifically. Not a lot has been said by them on this subject, but this article by Elana Schor at Politico sheds some light on the topic.
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CEMA
March 23, 2016
Vehicles Are to Be Immediately Placed Out-of-Service by Federal and State Inspectors
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), in collaboration with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), has determined that vehicles subject to Volvo Trucks' Safety Recall (NHTSA Part 573 Safety Recall Report No. 16V-097000) that have not already received the interim or permanent recall remedy repair specified by Volvo in the recall and are still operating on the nation's roadways are in an unsafe condition and should not be operated; such vehicles are to be immediately ordered out-of-service by federal and state roadside safety inspectors.
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CEMA
Spring is here, and for the many members that own motorcycles we wanted to make you aware of some insurance issues that may affect you and your employees. This message is brought to you by the I.I.I, a nonprofit, communications organization supported by the insurance industry; and by Good Works Insurance, endorsed by CEMA for personal lines of auto and homeowners insurance written by Nationwide Insurance.
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Federated Insurance via CEMA
Question: Our company has recently instituted a new policy for requesting time off when another employee is already scheduled off and/or an employee who covers for the new requester's time off will be covering someone else and/or on vacation themselves consecutively with the new request. We have limited employees and only a few employees that cover for other employees. We have implemented that no two employees may be off at the same time and that all employees must review the vacation calendar prior to submitting a request for time off.
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The Register Citizen
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has signaled that her office plans to confront Kinder Morgan's Tennessee Gas Co. in court over access to Otis State Forest in Sandisfield to construct its new natural gas pipeline spur serving three utilities in Connecticut.
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Foley Carrier Services
Many motor carriers assume that as long as their business doesn't employ CDL drivers who operate Commercial Motor Vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating or Gross Combination Weight Rating of over 26,000 pounds, that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations don't apply to them. In actuality, most regulations apply to businesses that operate vehicles with a GVWR/GCWR of 10,000 pounds or more.
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The Boston Globe
Utility Eversource Energy has disclosed that its chief executive, Thomas May, received a 7.8 percent pay increase in 2015, bringing his total compensation to around $9.7 million. That was about $700,000 more than he received in the prior year, with May getting both a bump in his base salary and a larger stock award. In 2014, May's total compensation increased at a higher rate, 17 percent, to around $9 million.
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American Energy Coalition
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's plan to expand the use of hydroelectric power could sidetrack two proposed multi-billion-dollar natural gas pipelines in the state, according to a recent report. Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Matthew Beaton said Baker's hydroelectric bill could influence the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as it considers the proposed Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline through western and northern Massachusetts and the proposed Spectra natural gas pipeline in the eastern part of the state.
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VTDigger.org
Vermont Gas may be forced to prove once again whether a planned pipeline in Addison County is in the public's interest. The Public Service Board issued an order on that denies Vermont Gas' petition to dismiss a case brought by the Conservation Law Foundation in 2014. The CLF case turns on whether a twofold increase in the cost of the project constitutes a "substantial change."
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Worchester Patch
Hundreds of potentially damaging natural gas leaks have been pinpointed across Worcester, Massachusetts. The location of more than 20,000 gas leaks was recently revealed last summer as part of a new state law, which requires utility companies to report the location and age of all known gas leaks.
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My Bioheat
Rudolph Diesel invented the diesel engine and unveiled it at the World Fair in 1900. The engine was originally designed to run on peanut oil and R. Diesel was a big believer in the role plant oils could play in fueling America. In a 1912 speech, Diesel said, "...the use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today, but such oils may become, in the course of time, as important as petroleum and the coal-tar products of the present time."
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The CT Mirror
The Connecticut General Assembly has overwhelmingly adopted a bipartisan plan to close most or all of the current year's budget deficit, immediately shifting the legislature's focus to a far larger projected shortfall for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The House of Representatives voted 127-16 to approve the plan, roughly 90 minutes after the Senate adopted it 33-3.
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