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From the Lawyers: SEC Actions Dodd-Frank Disclosure Requirements for ‘Resource Extraction Issuers’

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On August 22nd, the SEC adopted Dodd-Frank mandated rules that will require certain oil and gas companies to disclose payments made to U.S. and/or foreign governments in the course of their commercial development of oil, gas and minerals projects. To date 20+ law firms have written alerts on the new rules and the clear consensus is summed up by Skadden’s warning that “although the deadline for the first Form SD is more than a year away, resource extraction issuers may have a significant amount of work to do in preparation.”

The headline numbers are these: 1,100 resource extraction issuers are expected to exceed a de minimis, project-based payment threshold of $100,000 and incur the obligation to spend an aggregate of $1 billion on initial compliance efforts. These efforts will culminate with an obligation to file payment disclosure with the SEC on a new Form SD for fiscal years ending after September 30, 2013. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 11, 2012 at 12:00 PM

Nine Things We Already Know About The Smart Grid’s Future

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In 2010 and 2011, Smart Grid News participated in five separate “future of the smart grid” workshops organized by three different groups. We also conducted more than four dozen interviews with utility CEOs and CIOs. Those executives and experts made these nine predictions about the forces that will be driving the smart grid’s future:

1. Diverging demographics. We will have an increasingly diverse population with strong geographic, gender, generational, income and aspirational differences, with each segment expecting to “have it my way.” Keep reading →

 /  Published February 24, 2012 at 11:50 AM
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