Stonewalling

FERC Zaps Four Western Sellers for Stonewalling in Gaming Probe

Declaring their responses to questions related to FERC’s probe into energy price manipulation to be either glaringly incomplete or simply not credible, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week ordered four suppliers — El Paso Electric Co., Avista Corp., Portland General Electric and Williams Energy Marketing & Trading — to show why they shouldn’t be stripped of their authority to sell energy at unregulated rates dating back to Feb. 13 of this year, when the Commission opened its investigation into potential gaming of western power and natural gas markets.

June 10, 2002

El Paso Merchant Ordered to Relinquish Protected Data

FERC last week ordered El Paso Merchant Energy and El PasoMerchant Energy-Gas L.P. to stop stonewalling and turn overprotected materials to parties involved in a complaint case thatalleges the affiliates received preferential treatment when theyacquired 1.2 Bcf/d of California-bound firm capacity on El PasoNatural Gas.

January 15, 2001

El Paso Merchant Ordered to Relinquish Protected Data

FERC last week ordered El Paso Merchant Energy and El PasoMerchant Energy-Gas L.P. to stop stonewalling and turn overprotected materials to parties involved in a complaint case thatalleges the affiliates received preferential treatment when theyacquired 1.2 Bcf/d of California-bound firm capacity on El PasoNatural Gas.

January 15, 2001

El Paso Merchant Ordered to Relinquish Data

FERC yesterday ordered El Paso Merchant Energy to stopstonewalling and turn over protected materials to parties involvedin a complaint case in which it’s alleged the affiliate receivedpreferential treatment when it acquired 1.2 Bcf/d of firm capacityon El Paso Natural Gas.

January 11, 2001

El Paso’s Partial Capacity Segmentation Plan Under Fire

A capacity segmentation tariff filing by El Paso Natural Gas is”yet one more stonewalling attempt on El Paso’s part to avoidcompliance with [FERC] rules and regulations,” Indicated Shipperstold the Commission last week.

September 4, 2000

El Paso Capacity Segmentation Plan Under Fire

A capacity segmentation tariff filing by El Paso Natural Gas is”yet one more stonewalling attempt on El Paso’s part to avoidcompliance with [FERC] rules and regulations,” Indicated Shipperstold the Commission this week.

August 30, 2000