Legal Opinion
Conoco Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Vesta Energy Company, Intervenors
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 2, 1996No. 94-1724, 94-1726, 94-1729 to 94-1732, 94-1735, 95-1007, 95-1013, 95-1080, 95-1172, 95-1342 and 95-1364PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge ROGERS.
ROGERS, Circuit Judge:
In these consolidated petitions for review of five orders of the Federal Energy-Regulatory Commission, 1 the principal issue is whether a jurisdictional exemption was properly granted to an affiliate of an interstate pipeline for its gathering 2 service, which had formerly been operated by the pipeline itself, so long as the affiliate’s gathering service functioned independently of the pipeline’s transportation service, and so long as the affiliate provided the pipeline’s existing customers contract protection during a…
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