A March 9 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit denied a plan for North Baja Pipeline to share emergency force majeure costs with shippers. The deal breaker was that North Baja included scheduled maintenance of the natural gas pipe as a force majeure event in its application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Federal regulators had denied North Baja's proposal. The pipeline company, which ships natural gas from Arizona to Mexico through California, appealed FERC's decision.