โ Scribed by Smead, Richard G.
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ecently, the US. Courts of Appeals for the Eleventh and D.C. Circuits issued a joint order vacating and remanding Orders 636, 636-A, and 636-B. The courts found that the whole thing was a bad idea, unsupported by the factual findings necessary for action under Section 5 of the Natural Gas Act. Based upon the Cornmission's long-awaited economic-impact studies, the courts further found that the $4billion annual benefit expected from the Order 636 initiative was not evenly spread among market sectors. In fact, said the courts, nobody in the natural gas business would get any of the benefit-most of the $4 billion went to revitalize the airlines and hotels used for nationwide restructuring meetings. The rest went to the leg31 and consulting professions.
in fact, said the courts, nobody in the natural gas business would get any of the benefitmost of the $4 billion went to ravitalize the airlines and hotels used for nationwide restructuring meetings. The rest went to the legal and consulting professions.
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Order 636-The Right of First Refusal t the same time that it embarked on the A current examination of the natural gas industry of the future, in Docket PL97-1, the Commission issued Order 636C, the order on remand of Order 636. For the most part, this order was fairly noncontroversial, given how the
A February 1W4, I was enjoying some casual coffee-break conversation when I spotted an old acquaintance from the gas business. When I mentioned that I was still working out the kinks from Order 636, this "noted authority" on the North American natural gas industry said, "Six thirty-six is over. You
1992, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commison (FERC) took. bold steps toward increased telephone companies against other providers of longdistance service, petition in the sale of natural gas in its landmark The result of the telephone decree was to eliminate sr 636, For interstate gas pipelines, Or
## Updating the Order 636 Court Review Case o some, it may come as a surprise that the T court appeal of Order 636 has still not really begun and will probably not be finished for another year or two. Without explaining how or why the courts have effectively put this case to sleep from August, 199