Upheld

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC on Friday upheld FERC’s decision denying Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. the right to collect full reservation charges from shippers whose service has been suspended, but it opened the door for the agency to allow pipelines to collect a lesser charge in such cases.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC on Friday upheld FERC’s decision denying Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. the right to collect full reservation charges from shippers whose service has been suspended, but it opened the door for the agency to allow pipelines to collect a lesser charge in such cases.

Saying it would not jeopardize service on the system, FERC on Monday upheld an earlier order permitting CenterPoint Energy-Mississippi River Transmission Corp. (MRT) to abandon 307 miles of 76-year-old pipeline facilities in northern Louisiana, Arkansas and southern Missouri.

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a law used to charge a former natural gas trader with manipulating prices by reporting false information, moving the ex-Dynegy Inc. gas trader closer to trial.

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday upheld the law used to charge a former natural gas trader with manipulating prices by reporting false information, moving the ex-Dynegy Inc. gas trader closer to trial.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC last Tuesday upheld an order in which FERC approved a significantly higher annual cashout surcharge rate for ANR Pipeline, even though it said the method for calculating the surcharge had become “unjust and unreasonable.”

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC on Tuesday upheld an order in which FERC approved a significantly higher annual cashout surcharge rate for ANR Pipeline, even though it said the method for calculating the surcharge had become “unjust and unreasonable.”

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC on Tuesday upheld an order in which FERC approved a significantly higher annual cashout surcharge rate for ANR Pipeline, even though it said the method for calculating the surcharge had become “unjust and unreasonable.”

FERC last Wednesday upheld an April finding that Washington state environmental regulators, by failing to act by the allotted deadlines, had waived the certification requirements under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) with respect to Georgia Strait Crossing Pipeline LP’s natural gas pipeline project in the Pacific Northwest.