Centra Pipelines Minnesota Inc.

Second Revised Volume No. 2

Effective Date: 10/16/1991, Docket: RP91-136-002, Status: Effective

Original Sheet No. 27 Original Sheet No. 27 : Effective

SECTION 12 - FORCE MAJEURE AND REMEDIES

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12.1 Neither Shipper nor Centra shall be liable in damages to the other

for any act, omission or circumstances occassioned by or in

consequence of any acts of God, strikes, lockouts, acts of the

public enemy, wars, blockades, insurrections, riots, epidemics,

landslides, lightning, earthquakes, fires, storms, floods, washouts,

arrests and restraints of rulers and peoples, civil disturbances,

explosions, breakage or accident to machinery or lines of pipe, line

freezeups, or the binding order of any court or governmental

authority which has been resisted in good faith by all reasonable

legal means, and any other cause, whether of the kind herein

enumerated, or otherwise, and whether caused or occasioned by or

happening on account of the act or ommission of one of the parties

hereto or some person or concern not a party hereto, not within

the control of the party claiming suspension and which by the

exercise of due diligence such party is unable to prevent or

overcome. A failure to settle or prevent any strike or other

controversy with employees or with anyone purporting or seeking

to represent employees shall not be considered to be a matter

within the control of the party claiming suspension.