Nov. 29 - Dynegy could impose monopolistic prices on millions of consumers if it acquires Enron's primary natural gas pipelines

Public Citizen warned today that unless government regulators block Dynegy's acquisition of Enron's Northern Natural Gas Co., millions of consumers will be vulnerable to noncompetitive pricing in electricity and natural gas. The acquisition would make Dynegy America's newest and largest vertically integrated energy company.

Although Dynegy s acquisition of Enron was called off, Dynegy still is trying to acquire Enron s most lucrative asset. Comprising two-thirds of Enron s 25,000 thousand miles of domestic natural gas pipelines, the Northern Natural Gas line runs from fields in Texas Permian Basin to 14 states throughout the Midwest, Southwest and West.

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