Prices shot up but, despite several pipelines linking Britain to Europe, no extra gas was forthcoming from the continent.
Some good news could well be forthcoming about a possible gas pipeline connecting Iran and India via Pakistan, and India has warmed the temperature in advance with an offer this week to open border-crossings to its west.
"The EPA's forthcoming regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and specifically carbon emissions from power plants will be of incredible interest to states and membership so we are going to be focusing on that.
WASHINGTON -- Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said Monday that forthcoming rules on greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants will not require them to have carbon capture and storage technology.
Now they demanded safeguards for soil and rivers in light of an issue that is likely to feature in Australia's forthcoming federal election: the mining of gas from underground coal seams across New South Wales, the country's most populous state.
Chevrolet's forthcoming Volt uses a gasoline engine paired with a battery-driven electric motor but it isn't considered a hybrid per se because the gas engine only directly powers the battery, never the wheels.
She approves the reduction in subsidies carried out by the centre-left Congress party government, notably for gas, but has reservations about the forthcoming election year in 2014, regretting that, "the government wants to relaunch some social programmes".
A British Gas spokesman explained that its forthcoming bills would show "before and after" calculations for both gas and electricity use.
Add to that a wealth of natural resources that range from oil and gas to diamonds and rare minerals and, of course, a forthcoming "demographic dividend", as a young generation moves into the workplace.
Allegations that Syria's government has not being forthcoming about its chemical weapons stockpile and continues to deploy chlorine gas against civilians mounted this week — but any such transgressions probably won't affect American policy on the country's civil war.
