Senate Committee Canadian-Competition Bill Protects Pipelines, Harms LDCs
✍ Scribed by Moring, Frederick
- Book ID
- 102220454
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Weight
- 228 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0743-5665
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✦ Synopsis
The Proposed Change in Ground Rules
The new imports provision is in three parts: (1) the bill transfers from the secretary of energy to the commission the power to approve applications for gas import authority; (2) the biu would require the commission to condition any import authorization to redress any anticompetitive impacts on U.S. natural gas producers, including competitive disparities resulting from different rate designs applied to the pipeline hamportation of domesticnatural gas and imported gas; and (3) within six months the Justice Department would be required to reportto the Senate Energy Committee and to the House of Representatives about the authority of the Department of Energy and the commission to address ~ Harms LDCs 1 Frederick Moring The Senate Energy Committee recently reported out a comprehensive energy bill, the National Energy Security Act of 1991. The bill not only incorporated many of the FredericL Moring is a partner in CroweU & Mwing, a Wclshbgton, DC, law-specioliring b energy Irrw. He haspmclicednohtralgas h w since 1961. He is a fotmer preskient of the Federal Energy Bar Assochtion, and is the LDC colvrnnist for Natural Gas.
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