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Concentration of Credit Risk (Table)

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Concentration of Credit Risk Tables Abstract

Schedules of Concentration of Risk, by Risk Factor

	September 30, 2011	September 30, 2010

Investment grade	54%	58%
Non-investment grade	46%	42%
Total	100%	100%

Fair Value, Concentration of Risk


		Natural Gas Distribution Segment ⁽¹⁾		Nonregulated Segment		Consolidated
		(In thousands)

Investment grade counterparties	$	-	$	16	$	16
Non-investment grade counterparties		-		1,081		1,081
	$	-	$	1,097	$	1,097

⁽¹⁾ Counterparty risk for our natural gas distribution segment is minimized because hedging
gains and losses are passed through to our customers.

- Definition

This element represents the disclosure of all significant concentrations of risk, including credit risk and market risk, arising from all financial instruments (as defined), whether from an individual counterparty or groups of counterparties. The disclosure concerning concentrations of risk may consist of the following information: (1) for concentrations of credit risk disclosure may include: (a) information about the (shared) activity, region, or economic characteristic that identifies the concentration, (b) the maximum amount of loss due to credit risk that, based on the gross fair value of the financial instrument, the entity would incur if parties to the financial instruments that make up the concentration failed completely to perform according to the terms of the contracts and the collateral or other security, if any, for the amount due proved to be of no value to the entity, (c) the policy of requiring collateral or other security to support financial instruments subject to credit risk, information about the entity's access to that collateral or other security, and the nature and a brief description of the collateral or other security supporting those financial instruments, and (d) the policy of entering into master netting arrangements to mitigate the credit risk of financial instruments, information about the arrangements for which the entity is a party, and a brief description of the terms of those arrangements, including the extent to which they would reduce the entity's maximum amount of loss due to credit risk and (2) for disclosure of quantitative information about the market risks of financial instruments that is consistent with the way the Company manages or adjusts those risks, disclosure may include: (a) more details about current positions and perhaps activity during the period, (b) the hypothetical effects on comprehensive income (or net assets), or annual income, of several possible changes in market prices, (c) a gap analysis of interest rate re-pricing or maturity dates, (d) the duration of the financial instruments, (e) the entity's value at risk from derivatives and from other positions at the end of the reporting period and the average value at risk during the year, or (f) other ways of reporting quantitative information as internally developed.

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