News from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission

Jim Palmer, Director of Information

October 13, 1999

(OKLAHOMA CITY)—Oklahoma’s Corporation Commissioners have unanimously approved an order dissolving two protective orders which kept confidential certain material involving gas purchase contracts between Oklahoma Natural Gas (ONG) and Dynamic Energy Resources.

The 3-0 vote by Commissioners Bob Anthony, Denise Bode and Ed Apple allowed 128 pages of documents related to the contracts to be released to the public. The order stems from a series of open records requests for information about the gas contracts received at the commission in recent weeks.

The order comes after ONG told the commission it had no objections to release of the information, and no objections were received from the other parties to the contracts after they were notified by the commission’s general counsel.

It was one week ago the commission prepared to release the confidential contract information but met with objections from ONG. Attorney’s representing ONG asked to review the documents and be allowed time to contact the other companies in the contracts for their permission.

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