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Macquarie Cook Energy LLC and Constellation Energy Commodities Group Inc.(CECG) have urged FERC to grant their request for a 90-day waiver of capacity release rules so the companies can complete the first part of the sale of the Constellation trading group to Macquarie on or about Feb. 23. The companies asked the Commission to put aside for later discussion Dominion’s petition for a policy review regarding waivers.

Macquarie Cook Energy LLC and Constellation Energy Commodities Group Inc.(CECG) have urged FERC to grant their request for a 90-day waiver of capacity release rules so the companies can complete the first part of the sale of the Constellation trading group to Macquarie on or about Feb. 23. The companies asked the Commission to put aside for later discussion Dominion’s petition for a policy review regarding waivers.

A group of Columbia Transmission shippers has called on FERC to grant emergency relief on an expedited basis to prevent the pipeline from unilaterally modifying the primary delivery points under their contracts while a complaint proceeding is pending.

A group of Columbia Transmission shippers have called on FERC to grant emergency relief on an expedited basis to prevent the pipeline from unilaterally modifying the primary delivery points under their contracts while a complaint proceeding is pending.

Two Midwest natural gas pipelines — Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC and Northern Natural Gas — have called on FERC to grant them “temporary waivers” of the agency’s existing blanket-certificate rules to carry out the timely construction of mainline pipe expansions to serve ethanol plants and other renewable fuel facilities.

Two Midwest natural gas pipelines — Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC and Northern Natural Gas — have called on FERC to grant them “temporary waivers” of the agency’s existing blanket-certificate rules to carry out the timely construction of mainline pipe expansions to serve ethanol plants and other renewable fuel facilities.

FERC’s failure to explain why it didn’t grant Virginia Natural Gas’ (VNG) request for money damages against Columbia Gas Transmission for breach of pipeline service was both “arbitrary and capricious,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said Friday.

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) has petitioned FERC to grant a partial waiver of the secondary point rights in its tariff to help offset the impact on pipeline shippers of planned capacity reductions that will occur on a segment of its Gulf Coast Line due to maintenance, testing and other activities during the first half of 2006.

The FERC is scheduled Wednesday to weigh in on a request by the Committee of Chief Risk Officers (CCRO) that would grant the committee’s Energy Data Hub and its participants the same “safe harbor” protection that is afforded to companies that currently submit pricing information to index publishers. The request, however, is not going unchallenged as a leading index publisher has fired back, questioning the validity of anointing an experimental hub concept with the same protections afforded to publishers who have adopted FERC’s standards on price indexes.