Notice

St. Johns Lateral Approved, but Tribal Issues Remain Hot

For the second time this fall, Canada’s National Energy Boardserved notice it will not halt gas pipeline projects to awaitresolutions of age-old Indian grievances but it did issue a pleafor both sides in a dispute to make peace for the good of allconcerned. The signal arrived in an approval of a second Maritimesspur, called the Saint John Lateral, off the new Maritimes &Northeast pipeline. The $62 million lateral is designed to servedomestic customers in New Brunswick along its route to New Englandfrom the Sable Offshore Energy Project.

December 6, 1999

M&NE Start-up Remains in Doubt

For the second time this fall, Canada’s National Energy Boardhas served notice it will not halt natural gas projects to awaitresolutions of age-old Indian grievances and issued a plea for bothsides to make peace for the good of all concerned. It still is notclear, however, if the new Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline –gassed and ready to go — will actually start operations Dec. 1.

November 30, 1999

Transportation Notes

Florida Gas Transmission extended a market-area Overage Alert Daynotice (see Daily GPI, Oct. 13) throughWednesday but loosened the tolerance for daily negative imbalancesfrom 5% to 8%.

October 14, 1999

Transportation Notes

Citing high market-area demand, Florida Gas Transmission issuedan Overage Alert Day notice Tuesday for the segment east of Station12 (Santa Rosa County, FL). Daily negative imbalances exceeding atolerance of 5% are subject to penalty. The pipeline will evaluatesystem conditions again this morning before deciding whether toextend the OFO.

October 13, 1999

Transportation Notes

Florida Gas Transmission extended an Overage Alert Day noticeinto its third day Wednesday, continuing to cite high market-areademand. However, Pacific Gas & Electric is lifting itslow-linepack OFO today.

October 7, 1999

Transportation Notes

Florida Gas Transmission extended an Overage Alert Day notice forits market area that had begun Tuesday (see Daily GPI, Sept. 29) through Thursday but againloosened the tolerance for negative daily imbalances from 6% to 8%.

October 1, 1999

Transportation Notes

Florida Gas Transmission extended an Overage Alert Day noticefor its market area (see Daily GPI, Sept. 29) through Wednesday butloosened the tolerance for negative imbalances to 6%.

September 30, 1999

Transportation Notes

Citing significant market-area demand, Florida Gas Transmissionissued an Overage Alert Day notice Friday for the system east ofStation 12 (Santa Rosa County in the Florida Panhandle). A decisionon whether to extend the OFO was not due until Saturday morning.

September 7, 1999

Transportation Notes

Florida Gas Transmission extended an Overage Alert Day notice forthe area east of Station 12 (see Daily GPI, July 30) through at least Friday’s gasday. The tolerance for daily negative imbalances remained at 3%.

August 2, 1999

Ameren to Transfer Generation Plants

AmerenCIPS, a subsidiary of Ameren Corp., filed with theIllinois Commerce Commission (ICC) a notice that it intends totransfer AmerenCIPS’ Illinois generating facilities and relatedpersonnel to a new non-regulated subsidiary. Ameren is a registeredholding company under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of1935 (PUHCA) and is the parent of the utility operatingsubsidiaries, AmerenCIPS and AmerenUE.

July 20, 1999