The Great Plains Chronicles

PETER NAVARRO

With a bone-crunching tackle, the U.S. Court of Appeals has abruptly halted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s “end run” efforts to force natural-gas consumers on five major pipelines to finance the Great Plains coal-gasification project. The Court’s decision wound up a lengthy legal battle over “consumer financing” that pitted the project builders and the Federal Government against a curious coalition that featured, among others, the odd couple of General Motors and the Ohio Consumers Counsel.

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PETER NAVARRO

With a bone-crunching tackle, the U.S. Court of Appeals has abruptly halted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s “end run” efforts to force natural-gas consumers on five major pipelines to finance the Great Plains coal-gasification project. The Court’s decision wound up a lengthy legal battle over “consumer financing” that pitted the project builders and the Federal Government against a curious coalition that featured, among others, the odd couple of General Motors and the Ohio Consumers Counsel.