United States Tenth Circuit

Plaintiff's challenge to defendant-FERC's grant of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, which allows the construction of a new natural gas pipeline and ancillary facilities, is denied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/02/2004
• Published 12/02/2004

Judges

• ANDERSON, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, ANDERSON, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Angela Coats, Student Intern, Brett Durbin, Student Intern, and Michael J. Robinson-Dorn, Assistant Professor of Law & Director, Kathy and Steve Berman Environmental Law Clinic, University of Washington, School of Law, Seattle, WA, for Petitioner., Steven W. Snarr, Georgia StraitCrossing Pipeline LP, Salt Lake City, Utah (Charles H. Shoneman and Jacqueline R. Java, Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P., Washington, DC, with him on the brief), for Intervenors, Georgia Strait Crossing Pipeline LP and Powerex Corp., Randall J. Watts, Chief Civil Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Whatcom County, Bellingham, WA, filed an amicus curiae brief for Whatcom County.


• For Appellees:
  
• Judith A. Albert, Attorney (Cynthia A. Marlette, General Counsel, and Dennis Lane, Solicitor, with her on the brief), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, for Respondent.