BALTIMORE GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY, Petitioner,
v.
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent,
UGI Utilities, et al., Intervenors.
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued May 10, 1994.
Decided June 24, 1994.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Timothy N. Black argued the cause for intervenor Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. With him on the brief were John H. Pickering, Susan D. McAndrew, Giles D.H. Snyder and Stephen J. Small.
Mark C. Darrell entered an appearance for intervenor Cities of Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia.
John S. Schmid entered an appearance for intervenor Delmarva Power & Light Co.
George L. Weber and Kenneth L. Glick entered an appearance for intervenor National Fuel Gas Supply Corp.
Richard S. Shapiro and Steve Stogic entered an appearance for intervenor Mountaineer Gas Co.
Denis E. George entered an appearance for intervenor Dayton Power & Light Co.
Ronald N. Carroll, James E. Coleman, Jr., and Mark J. Leimkuhler entered an appearance for intervenor Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
Daniel P. Delaney entered an appearance for intervenor Pennsylvania Public Utility Com'n.
Frank H. Strickler, Ralph E. Fisher and Gordon M. Grant entered an appearance for intervenor Washington Gas Light Co.
Joseph E. Killory, Jr., Mark D. Clark and Gary D. Wilson entered an appearance for intervenor Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
William C. Bingham, Jr. entered an appearance for intervenor South Jersey Gas Co.
Donald K. Danker entered an appearance for intervenor Cent. Hudson Gas & Elec. Corp.
Judy M. Johnson, D. Virginia Smith and F. Nan Todd Wagoner entered an appearance for intervenor Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.
Lynne H. Church entered an appearance for intervenor Baltimore Gas & Elec. Co.
Jennifer N. Waters, Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. argued the cause for petitioners. With her on the joint brief of petitioners and intervenors were Robert S. Fleishman, Andrew P. Mosier, Jr., Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., Allan W. Anderson, Jr., Allied-Signal Inc., Frederick J. Killion, Cent. Hudson Gas & Elec. Corp., James J. Mayer, John G. Banner, William A. Williams, Kenneth R. Carretta, John F. Harrington, Cincinnati Gas & Elec. Co. and Union Light, Heat and Power Co., Stanley W. Balis, Cities of Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia, James P. White, Columbia Small Customer Group, Barbara K. Heffernan, Cheryl L. Jones, Delmarva Power & Light Co. and The Providence Gas Co., Paula M. Carmody, Maryland People's Counsel, John F. Harrington, Mountaineer Gas Co., Jonathan D. Schneider, James C. Beh, New York State Elec. & Gas Corp., Jeffrey G. DiSciullo, Jeanne M. Bennett, North Carolina Natural Gas Corp., Morton L. Simons, North Carolina Utilities Com'n, Barry Cohen, Margaret Ann Samuels, Joseph P. Serio, Office of the Consumers' Counsel, State of Ohio, Nicholas W. Mattia, Jr., Robert A. Nelson, Jr., Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., Lawrence F. Barth, Veronica A. Smith, John F. Povilaitis, Pennsylvania Public Utility Com'n, William M. Penniman, Katherine P. Yarbrough, Process Gas Consumers Group, et al., David D'Alessandro, Richard A. Solomon, Kelly A. Daly, Public Service Com'n of the Com. of Kentucky and the Public Service Com'n of the State of New York, Mary E. Baluss, Christopher J. Barr, Kent K. Murphy, UGI Utilities, Inc., James F. Bowe, Jr., O. Julia Weller, Virginia Natural Gas, Inc. and West Ohio Gas Co. and Telemac N. Chryssikos, Washington Gas Light Co.
Joel M. Cockrell, Atty., Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Jerome M. Feit, Sol., and Joseph S. Davies, Deputy Sol., Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Jill L. Hall, Atty., Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, entered an appearance.
Michael J. Manning entered an appearance for intervenor Columbia Small Customer Group.
Harry H. Voight, M. Reamy Ancarrow, Mindy A. Buren and Diane B. Schratwieser entered an appearance for intervenor Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.
Michael J. Thompson and Donald W. McCoy entered an appearance for intervenor North Carolina Natural Gas Corp.
John K. Keane, Jr. and Robert B. Evans entered an appearance for intervenor Washington Gas Light Co.
O. Julia Weller and James F. Bowe, Jr. entered an appearance for People's Natural Gas Co.
Before: EDWARDS, GINSBURG and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge EDWARDS.
HARRY T. EDWARDS, Circuit Judge:
This case presents yet another chapter in the story of the "take-or-pay" debacle in the natural gas pipeline industry. Petitioners are a group of local distribution companies and end-users that purchase natural gas from intervenor Columbia Gas Transmission Company ("Columbia"), an interstate pipeline regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC" or "Commission...
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