Cooperation clears energy path.(2005 Midyear Meeting General Session-Keynote Speaker)(energy policy)

Publication: Oil and Gas Investor

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COPYRIGHT 2005 Hart Publications, Inc.

A better attitude about energy in Washington makes less restrictive legislation possible.

Partisan politics has governed energy issues during the past few years, but now the politicians seem to be returning to voting aligned with the interests of their stakeholders instead of their parties.

There's always politics in energy, but before the partisanship of the past few years, the politics were regional. For example, Texas republicans and democrats generally agreed on energy issues, said Joseph T. Kelliher, Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and previously senior policy advisor to former Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham.

Because of the more non-partisan alignments, he said, "I'm more optimistic about energy legislation than at any time in the past four years. There's a good chance of the energy bill being passed into law."...

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