TCPL Applies For Interim Transportation Tolls

TransCanada PipeLines Limited has filed applications with the National Energy Board and the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board for interim tolls on its respective Canadian mainline and Alberta natural gas transmission systems.

TCPL requested the interim tolls be effective Jan. 1, 2001.

Regulated tolls currently charged by TCPL on its Canadian mainline and Alberta systems expire at the end of this year. TCPL applied for interim tolls to provide a basis for charging tolls for transmission until the company applies for and the respective regulators decide on its final 2001 rates.

Firm transportation service from the Alberta border to TCPL's eastern zone is commonly used as the benchmark for tolls on the Canadian mainline. TCPL applied for an interim firm transportation toll of $1.132 per gigajoule from the Alberta border to the eastern zone compared to the current rate of $1.009 per gigajoule.

For its Alberta system, the company applied for an interim firm transportation toll of about 33 cents per mmcf to the company's provincial export points, compared to the current rate of 31 cents per mmcf.

Firm transportation service to the company's Alberta export points is commonly used as the benchmark for tolls on the Alberta system.

"These are interim tolls only," Doug Baldwin , TCPL's president and chief executive officer, said in a news release. "We continue to negotiate with shippers and customers on new tolls and services and toward a new regulatory framework. We remain diligent in our negotiations."