** Bloomberg reports Pakistan will start building a 1,100 kilometer (684 miles) pipeline in July with Russia that will allow the South Asian nation to operate more liquefied natural gas terminals.
** Venezuela’s national oil company started unloading more than 1 million barrels of oil from a stricken tanker that had sparked fears of a major environmental disaster in the Caribbean.
** Reuters reports surging spot prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG) are exacerbating a gas supply crunch in key fast-growing emerging markets in Asia just as a cold spell in other parts of the region boosts demand for the fuel.
** A Pennsylvania town that passed a law banning the disposal of fracking waste is sued for the second time by a gas exploration and development company according to the Common Dreams.
** A Harley-Davidson manufacturing facility in Wisconsin now has the largest rooftop solar installation in the state reported the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
** Some nearby residents raise concerns about a lack of information on a developer’s plan to repower 17 wind turbines in eastern Iowa according to the Manchester Press.
** Dominion Energy begins construction on a 472-foot ship that will install wind turbines off Virginia’s coast beginning in 2023 reported the Daily Press.
** Bloomberg reported Exxon takes a new tack in a filing in its challenge to a Massachusetts climate suit saying the litigation punishes it for its views on a public policy matter.
** Houston-based Broad Reach Power, owner of solar and energy storage power projects in California, Wyoming, Utah and Texas acquired a 250 MW wind farm and a 250 MW solar project in Montana.
** Bloomberg says the Arizona electric truck firm Nikola wants regulators to approve a plan to purchase cheap electricity from the state’s largest electricity supplier to produce hydrogen for a planned fueling network.
