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Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) has advised FERC that marketersEnron North America Corp. and Dynegy Marketing and Trade havedropped out of its Phase V expansion project in the wake of aFlorida Supreme Court decision in April that dealt a serious blowto the development of merchant power in the state.

Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) advised FERC last week thatmarketers Enron North America Corp. and Dynegy Marketing and Tradehave dropped out of its Phase V expansion project in the wake of aFlorida Supreme Court decision in April that dealt a serious blowto the development of merchant power in the state.

It looks as though Millennium Pipeline’s long wait for a FERC ruling is going to last a little longer. Instead of getting a speedy Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), the pipeline must wait until FERC can examine its proposed route change in New York, Daniel M. Adamson, director of the Office of Energy Projects, told project sponsors.

It looks like Millennium Pipeline’s long wait for a FERC rulingis going to last a little longer. FERC’s Daniel M. Adamson,director of the Office of Energy Projects, turned down a request byMillennium sponsors to exclude from its Final Environmental ImpactStatement an assessment of a proposed route change in WestchesterCounty, NY. Millennium was seeking a speedy FEIS but now will haveto wait until the Commission reviews its route change.

The fallout from FERC’s unpopular decision on theSupplyLink-Independence-MarketLink gas pipeline projects continuedthroughout most of last week, first with New Jersey pledging totake the Commission to court over MarketLink and then with the mostpowerful energy lawmaker on Capitol Hill publicly accusing theCommissioners of trying to undermine the construction of theproposed $678 million Independence Pipeline to the Northeast.

The fallout from FERC’s decision earlier this week that placedthe future of the proposed Northeast-bound Independence Pipeline injeopardy continued yesterday, with the criticism this time comingfrom Capitol Hill.

After much nudging from the courts, state regulators andindustry, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last weekconceded defeat in its battle to justify jurisdiction over a smalllateral in Colorado.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has denied ANRPipeline’s petition for review of a FERC ruling that permittedNautilus Pipeline to build a competing pipeline off the coast ofLouisiana.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last week deniedANR Pipeline’s petition for review of a FERC ruling that permittedNautilus Pipeline to build a competing pipeline off the coast ofLouisiana.