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ANR Pipeline, charging Wisconsin Public Service Commissionfilings by Wisconsin Gas for the Guardian Pipeline project wereunlawfully kept secret, is suing the PSC in Dane County, WI,Circuit Court. ANR wants the court to reverse and set aside PSCorders conditionally approving Guardian. ANR seeks remanding of thecase and the opportunity to intervene in a contested case hearing.

If the Nymex electricity futures contracts were a party, by nowthe chips would be stale and the drinks flat, with only a handfulof guests having shown. Despite much fanfare over their respectivelaunchings, the New York Mercantile Exchange’s five electricitycontracts have largely languished for lack of activity.

Westcoast took its McMahon Plant off-line at midafternoon Sundayfor unplanned repairs to the inlet facility. Authorized volumes forSunday’s gas day were cut in half. A force majeure declaration forMcMahon was lifted early Monday morning.

An unplanned outage occurred Wednesday at Northern Border’sCompressor Station No. 4. No capacity cuts were necessary, aspokesman said, and the station was functioning normally againThursday.

Atlanta Gas Light (AGL) has asked FERC to extend the waivers andlimited jurisdiction blanket certificate that were approved a yearago on a limited basis to help carry out the utility’s retail gasunbundling program in Georgia.

Historically, the end of the week has meant slackened gasdemand, but for the sixth consecutive Friday natural gas futureswere able to tack on gains. Revised weather forecasts for this weekand continued concerns over supply shortages gave rise to lightshort-covering throughout the trading session Friday. The Julycontract finished up 2.3 cents at $2.308 amid a moderate volume of64,873.

After Monday’s almost universal double-digit increases, cashprices were on auto-pilot Tuesday, as they trended down from theprevious day’s results. Many traders said Monday’s run-up would bethis week’s high, pointing to moderating weather and the thecompletion of pipeline maintenance projects.

Just in case there were any doubters still out there, AlliancePipeline says it now has nine of 10 mainline construction crews inthe field installing the $3 billion pipeline system. The crewsstarted construction on two spreads in North Dakota, one inMinnesota, two in Iowa, one in Illinois and two in Saskatchewan. AThird crew is starting in Saskatchewan this week.

Just in case there were any doubters still out there, AlliancePipeline says it now has nine of 10 mainline construction crews inthe field installing the $3 billion pipeline system. The crewsstarted construction on two spreads in North Dakota, one inMinnesota, two in Iowa and one in Illinois. Two spreads inSaskatchewan are to start today and one early next week.