Rockies Express Pipeline Asks FERC to Deny Shippers’ Efforts To Thwart Its Effort to Avoid Triggering Most Favored Nations Clauses If Natural Gas Flows Are Reversed

摘要

On 1/27/14 Rockies Express Pipeline LLC (REX) (RP14-169) asked FERC to throw out addition comments that the Indicated Shippers1 filed on January 10. Encana Marketing (USA) Inc. initiated the proceeding seeking only a Commission order directing it to grant its 9/26/13 request to change delivery points 187 days in the future, noted REX. In its most recent pleading, Encana Marketing—the original and only complainant in this proceeding— acknowledged that “the facts are not in dispute. What is presented is a simple question of law.” However, according to REX, Indicated Shippers continue to file pleadings raising new issues unrelated to the actual Encana Marketing complaint. Moreover, the Indicated Shippers’ last answer was made on 12/20/13, and Indicated Shippers offer no justification for missing the 15-day answer deadline. REX demanded that the Commission deny the Shippers’ answer because it is irrelevant to resolving the issues presented in the complaint.