Freebird Gas Storage, L.L.C.
First Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 10/01/2008, Docket: RP08-304-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 149 Original Sheet No. 149 : Suspended
or its Credit Support
Provider shall be the subject of a Bankruptcy, as defined in Section 23.7
below; (B) the Party shall fail to perform any material covenant or obligation
imposed upon it under a Service Agreement (or in the case of Delivery Defaults
or Receipt Defaults, the Defaulting Party commits several such defaults of a
repetitive, consistent and on-going basis, and, as a result of such defaults,
the other Party’s benefit of the bargain under a Service Agreement is
materially diminished in the Non-Defaulting Party’s reasonable judgment); or
(C) the Party’s Credit Support Provider shall fail to perform any material
covenant or obligation imposed upon it under any credit support agreement
provided pursuant to a Service Agreement.
23.3 Termination of Service. If at any time an Event of Default with respect
to a Party ("Defaulting Party") has occurred and is continuing, the other
Party ("Non-Defaulting Party") may, at its option, terminate all Service
Agreements (except Hub Service Agreements for which the "Beginning Date of
Service" has already occurred, for which the Defaulting Party will be allowed
to offer adequate assurance of performance, with the adequacy of such
assurance being determined by the Non-Defaulting Party in its reasonable
discretion, provided that if the Defaulting Party fails to provide adequate
assurance of performance, the Non-Defaulting Party may (but will not be
required to) then terminate such contracts) by proceeding as follows: (a) the
Non-Defaulting Party shall provide written notice (by electronic mail and/or
facsimile, promptly followed by courier or overnight mail) to the Defaulting
Party stating specifically the cause for terminating the Service Agreement(s)
and declaring it to be the intention of the Non-Defaulting Party to terminate
the same on a designated date not earlier than thirty (30) days thereafter
(the "Early Termination Date"); thereupon the Defaulting Party shall have
thirty (30) days after receipt of such notice to remedy or remove the cause or
causes stated in the notice, and if within the thirty-day period the
Defaulting Party does so remove and remedy said cause or causes and fully
indemnifies the Non-Defaulting Party for any and all consequences of such
Event of Default, by good and sufficient means acceptable to the
Non-Defaulting Party, on or before the Early Termination Date, then such
notice shall be withdrawn and the Service Agreement shall continue in full
force and effect; (b) in case the Defaulting Party does not remedy and remove
the cause or causes and does not indemnify the Non-Defaulting Party for any
and all consequences of such Event of Default within the thirty-day period,
then, after any necessary notice to regulatory bodies having jurisdiction
(which notice may be given at the same time as the termination notice to
Defaulting Party), the Service Agreement shall be terminated as of the Early
Termination Date, provided that notice of termination has not been withdrawn
prior thereto, with such termination being effectuated pursuant to the further
terms of these General Terms and Conditions; (c) if termination occurs
pursuant to subsection (b) above, all Service Agreements (except currently
performing Hub Services Agreements, as set forth above) between Shipper and
Freebird then outstanding will be subject to termination as of the Early
Termination Date (i.e., there will be no "cherry-picking") in accordance with
the further provisions of this Section 23; and (d) any termination of such
Service Agreement(s) pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall be
without prejudice to the right of Freebird to collect any amounts then due to
it for services rendered prior to the time of termination, and shall be without
prejudice to the right of Shipper to
receive any service for which it has paid and is entitled but has not received
prior to the time of termination, and without waiver of any remedy, at law or
in equity, to which the Non-Defaulting Party may be otherwise entitled,
including, without limitation, the right to off-set any amount owing by the
Defaulting Party to the Non-Defaulting Party under the Service Agreement(s)
against any amount owing by the Non-Defaulting Party to the Defaulting Party
under the Service Agreement(s) or under any other agreement.
23.4 Suspension of Service. Prior to a termination for Event of Default, upon
written notice detailing Freebird’s reasons for suspension, Freebird may
suspend service to any Shipper who fails to comply with the terms of a Service
Agreement. Freebird’s failure to invoke its rights to suspend or terminate
service at any time shall not be construed as a waiver of Freebird’s right to
suspend or terminate service at any other time Shipper is in breach of the
terms of a Service Agreement. During any period of