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Record rainfall in parts of central and southern Saskatchewanhas put a damper on construction of the 1.325 Bcf/d AlliancePipeline, but for the time being sponsors are standing by theirprojected in-service date, sort of.

On the heels of last week’s power outages in the northern partsof the state, Southern California Gas Monday stepped up its push ofnatural gas-fired micro-turbines for small and medium-sizebusinesses as an alternative to grid-dependent electrical supplies.

Cinergy Corp., the Cincinnati, OH-based owner of Cincinnati Gas& Electric (CG&E), sold its nonregulated retail gasmarketing unit to an integrated energy services cooperative calledThe Energy Cooperative (TEC) for an undisclosed sum last week.Cinergy said it will not disclose the number of customers CinergyResources serves.

Enron’s decision last week to sell Portland General Electric toSierra Pacific Resources for a small gain after only two years ofownership was partly a result of the rapid growth of its powertrading arm and its merchant generation holdings, as well asadverse regulatory changes in California and Oregon.

Maintenance on parts of Columbia Gulf’s East Lateral system(Paradis Line) will begin Saturday, two days earlier thanpreviously announced. Originally scheduled to begin May 10 (seeDaily GPI, April 19), the work will take three to 10 days tocomplete and require about 65,000 dth/d to be shut in at 11measurement stations.

Westcoast Energy said its St. Clair Pipelines subsidiary filedthe last major component required for the Millennium Pipelineproject yesterday with the National Energy Board in Canada. Thecompany filed an application for a $165 million pipeline that wouldlink Union Gas’ Dawn Hub in Ontario to lake crossing facilities tobe built by TransCanada. TransCanada filed an application for thelake crossing facilities earlier this week. St. Clair’s 50-mileMillennium West Pipeline would deliver about 700 MMcf/d of gas toPatrick Point on the shores of Lake Erie.