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Propane Industry Concerns Following a Natural Gas Expansion We have seen
difficult harvest, one of the things we watched less action from the natural gas utilities to push
closely was overregulation on the propane subsidized expansion over the past year In many
industry However, it does not appear that will areas, the natural gas utilities are focusing more
happen We continue to watch a trio of bills in effort on survival than expansion
New York that were introduced in 2018 following Expanded State Engagement The
delivery challenges to residential customers that expanded state engagement team, including
could set arbitrary standards for “emergency” external affairs manager Jacob Peterson and
leading to industry overregulation state association affairs manager Eric Sears,
Decarbonization/Electrification This issue, continues its work with outreach to various
which just a few years ago was an important yet agencies and the state and regional associations
minor concern, was dominating our attention this
year before COVID-19 and is now coming back Marketers Section Meeting Update
in focus NPGA is tracking nearly 250 bills in state More than 100 marketers participated in the
legislatures that present threats to the industry section’s virtual meeting the morning of Monday,
involving electrification/decarbonization. There June 15. The first half of the webinar centered
has been success this year with “ban on the ban” on procedural business, including the selection
bills in Arizona and Tennessee, with both of those of the section’s leadership for the upcoming
signed into law The propane industry, along with association year Shannon McWhorter of Sequoia
a coalition comprised of more than a dozen Gas Co was elected as the section’s next chair,
other organizations, are also supporting similar while Chad Kroening of Boehlke Bottled Gas
bills in Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Corp was chosen as vice-chair Additionally,
Minnesota, and New Jersey, as well as a ballot intrastate (independent) and interstate
initiative in Colorado (multistate) marketers each selected their three
representatives to the next NPGA Executive
Committee Christina
Armentano of Paraco,
DEALERS LP EQUIPMENT David Bertelsen of Matheson
An Affiliate of R.E. Michel Company, LLC Tri-Gas, and Stephen
Kossuth of AmeriGas
Propane LP will represented
interstate marketers while
Your SINGLE SOURCE for Joe Buschur of McMahan’s
Bottle Gas, Thomas
Manson of Eastern Propane
Gas, Inc , and Thomas
Van Buren of Meritum
Energy will represent
intrastate marketers on the
committee
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of the meeting focused
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