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April 2009

Vol. 14, No. 17 Week of April 26, 2009

TransCanada pre-files with FERC

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News

TransCanada pre-filed April 23 with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for its Alaska gas pipeline project.

The news came from Sen. Lesil McGuire, R-Anchorage, who said in a release that FERC officials told her TransCanada had just submitted an electronic request to pre-file for its natural gas pipeline project. McGuire, chair of the Alaska Senate Energy Committee, was in Washington, D.C., for meetings with energy officials.

Tony Palmer, TransCanada Alaska president, confirmed the pre-filing.

TransCanada “pre-filed this morning,” Palmer told Petroleum News April 23.

TransCanada Alaska received the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act license for its project from the state last year and Palmer said the schedule in the AGIA license the company received last year showed a 2011 pre-filing date.

“That has been moved up to today,” he said, but other dates in the schedule remain unchanged.

Denali, the BP-ConocoPhillips gas pipeline proposal, has already pre-filed, and FERC has been pressing TransCanada to do the same.

Palmer has told legislators that TransCanada was concerned about incurring additional costs through pre-filing before open season, which is when pre-filing is typically done.

Palmer said April 23 that TransCanada has worked closely with FERC over the last several months and thinks a solution has been reached “that meets their requirements and satisfies ours as well.”

He said TransCanada has had an ongoing dialogue with FERC since it received the AGIA license last year and believes the pre-filing program that was developed supports FERC’s role as lead agency for the project and will improve TransCanada’s dialogue with regulators and the public.

Palmer told legislators at hearings in early April that TransCanada was discussing the issue with FERC, and hoped to reach resolution soon.

FERC spokeswoman Tamara Young-Allen told Petroleum News that the application has been given a docket number and will be reviewed by FERC’s director of energy projects. Once a determination has been made to grant the pre-filing application, TransCanada will have to file environmental and engineering information with FERC, she said.






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