Algonquin Gas Transmission Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Bay State Gas Company, Intervenors

JOHN R. BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Algonquin Gas Transmission Company (Algonquin) brings this petition for review, challenging an order by respondent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The Commission denied Algonquin’s request for a rate increase to its customers to recover $900,000 in expenses it incurred in an unsuccessful development of the Eascogas Liquified Natural Gas import project (Eascogas). See Algonquin Gas Transmission Co., 31 FERC II 61,221 (1985). The Commission properly applied its long-standing policy of denying recovery of costs for unsuccessful gas supply…