UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 15, 2008
CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
Delaware (State or Other Jurisdiction of |
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001-33480 (Commission File Number) |
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3020 Old Ranch Parkway, Suite 200 Seal Beach, California |
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(562) 493-2804
(Registrants telephone number, including area code)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
o Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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Item 1.01. Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Membership Interests Purchase and Sale Agreement
On August 15, 2008, CE Dallas Renewables LLC (CE Dallas), a joint venture between Clean Energy, our wholly-owned subsidiary (Clean Energy), and Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC (Cambrian), acquired all of the outstanding membership interests of Dallas Clean Energy, LLC (DCE), pursuant to a Membership Interests Purchase and Sale Agreement (Purchase Agreement) among (i) CE Dallas, (ii) Clean Energy, (iii) Cambrian, (iv) Camco DCE, Inc. and Camco DCE Limited (together, the sellers), and (v) Camco International Ltd (collectively with the sellers, the selling parties). DCE owns a facility that collects, processes and sells landfill gas at the McCommas Bluff landfill located in Dallas, Texas.
Under the terms of the Purchase Agreement, CE Dallas paid to the sellers at the closing an aggregate of $19.1 million in cash, of which $1.0 million was deposited into a third-party escrow as security for indemnification claims CE Dallas or its successors and assigns may bring against the selling parties under the Purchase Agreement. The amount remaining in the escrow will be released to the sellers on August 15, 2009, except for amounts subject to pending indemnification claims, if any; provided that (i) up to $250,000 will be released to the sellers on November 15, 2008, but only to the extent the reserve set aside for pending indemnification claims at such time does not equal or exceed $750,000; and (ii) up to an additional $250,000 will be released to the sellers on February 15, 2009, but only to the extent the reserve set aside for pending indemnification claims at such time does not equal or exceed $500,000.
A complete copy of the Purchase Agreement is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this report and is incorporated herein by reference. The summary of the transaction set forth above does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Purchase Agreement.
Clean Energy borrowed $18.0 million from PlainsCapital Bank and contributed it to CE Dallas to help finance the acquisition of DCE, in accordance with the Credit Agreement described below in Credit Agreement with PlainsCapital Bank, together with $400,000 of its own funds. On the same date, Clean Energy also borrowed an additional $4.1 million from PlainsCapital Bank under the Credit Agreement to pay certain costs and expenses related to the acquisition transaction.
Limited Liability Company Agreement of CE Dallas Renewables LLC
On August 15, 2008, Clean Energy and Cambrian entered into a Limited Liability Company Agreement of CE Dallas Renewables LLC (LLC Agreement). Under the terms of the LLC Agreement:
· Capital Contributions. Clean Energy made a capital contribution of $18.4 million in cash in exchange for a 70% membership interest in CE Dallas. Cambrian made a capital contribution of (i) $1,000, (ii) a release of claims against Camco DCE, Inc, Camco DCE Limited and Camco International Limited, and (iii) certain other contractual rights, in exchange for a 30% membership interest in CE Dallas.
· LLC Management. CE Dallas will be managed by a board of managers consisting of three managers, two of whom will be appointed by Clean Energy and one of whom will be appointed by Cambrian. The board of managers has appointed a management company to serve at the direction of the board of managers. Cambrian Energy Management LLC will serve as the initial management company for the first 12 months and month-to-month thereafter, subject to the termination of such service in accordance with the terms of the LLC Agreement.
· Clean Energy Loan. Clean Energy agreed to loan to CE Dallas up to an aggregate of $14.0 million to pay for certain costs and capital expenditures necessary to increase the intake, processing capacity and gas output of the McCommas Bluff facility. See Loan Agreement with CE Dallas Renewables LLC below for more information.
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· Cambrian Option. Clean Energy granted to Cambrian an exclusive, non-assignable option to purchase from Clean Energy up to and including a 19% membership interest in CE Dallas. The exercise price of the option is $368,000 for each 1%, up to $6,992,000 for the total 19%. The option may be exercised in whole or in part (but only in 1% increments) during the ten-year period commencing on the date which the Clean Energy loan described under Loan Agreement with CE Dallas below has been repaid in full.
· Drag Along Right. If one or more members propose to sell all of the membership interests owned by such member(s) (so long as such member(s) collectively hold 51% or more of the total outstanding membership interests in the company), in one or more related transactions to a bona fide third party purchaser on an arms length basis, such members will have the right to require all of the other members to sell all of their membership interests upon the same terms.
· Buy-Sell Option. After December 31, 2009, a member (the Initiating Member) desiring to acquire all of the membership interests of the remaining members may provide a written notice (Buy/Sell Notice) to the remaining members (the Target Members) setting forth the Stated Value (described below) and stating that the Initiating Member will either sell all of the Initiating Members membership interests or purchase all of the membership interests of the Target Members at the price determined based on the Stated Value.
· The Stated Value contained in the Buy/Sell Notice would be a hypothetical cash price for all the assets of the company without assumption of funded indebtedness of CE Dallas.
· The price payable to a selling member would be the amount that the selling member (be that the Initiating Member or the Target Members) would receive with respect to the membership interests of such selling member upon a dissolution of the company following a sale of all assets of the company for cash in the amount of the Stated Value.
· Upon a sale pursuant to a Buy/Sell Notice, each selling member and its affiliates would repay all indebtedness of the company to such member or its affiliates to the extent there would be funds available to pay such indebtedness upon such a sale at the Stated Value.
· Each Target Member will reply in writing to the other members and the company within 180 days of receiving a Buy/Sell Notice as to whether the Target Member will sell the Target Members membership interests to the Initiating Member or purchase the Initiating Members membership interests. Failure by the Target Member to respond in writing within the 180 day time period will be deemed an election by the Target Member to sell the Target Members membership interests to the Initiating Member.
· The purchase and sale of the membership interests pursuant to the Buy/Sell Notice would be consummated within 90 days after the termination of the 180 day notice period.
· For so long as Clean Energy has any obligations to PlainsCapital Bank to repay outstanding debt, a condition precedent to closing a sale under the Buy/Sell Notice would be the payment in full of such debt and payment of all amounts by Clean Energy in connection therewith. See Credit Agreement with PlainsCapital Bank below for more information.
Immediately after the closing of the acquisition of DCE by CE Dallas, on August 15, 2008, CE Dallas merged with and into DCE, with DCE surviving. Upon the effectiveness of the merger, the LLC Agreement became the limited liability company agreement of DCE, and Clean Energy and Cambrian became the holders of 70% and 30% of the outstanding membership interests of DCE, respectively.
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A complete copy of the LLC Agreement is attached as Exhibit 99.2 to this report and is incorporated herein by reference. The summary of the LLC Agreement set forth above does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the LLC Agreement.
Loan Agreement with CE Dallas Renewables LLC
On August 15, 2008, Clean Energy and CE Dallas entered into a Loan Agreement (Loan Agreement) pursuant to which Clean Energy agreed to provide secured financing to CE Dallas on the following terms and conditions:
· Loans from Clean Energy. During the period commencing August 15, 2008 and ending July 29, 2013, CE Dallas may, from time to time, request to borrow funds from Clean Energy, provided that: (i) the aggregate initial principal amount of all loans made by Clean Energy to CE Dallas as of the date of any such request (including any loans related to the issuance of letters of credit), less the amount of any reserve established for letters of credit, may not exceed $14,000,000; and (ii) all other applicable conditions precedent set forth in the Loan Agreement are satisfied. On the date of the Loan Agreement, CE Dallas was deemed to have requested, and Clean Energy was deemed to have made, a loan of $714,000, which amount was paid by Clean Energy directly to the sellers under the Purchase Agreement in connection with the acquisition of DCE by CE Dallas.
· No Re-Borrowing. Amounts borrowed under the Loan Agreement and repaid or pre-paid by CE Dallas may not be re-borrowed.
· Letters of Credit. During the period commencing August 15, 2008 and ending July 29, 2013, CE Dallas may request that Clean Energy or one of its affiliates, as the account party, procure the issuance of one or more letters of credit in such amounts and in favor of such beneficiaries as may be requested by CE Dallas. Clean Energy is not obligated to honor any such request. Upon the drawing of any amount under any letter of credit procured by Clean Energy or its affiliates, CE Dallas will be deemed to have requested, and Clean Energy will have been deemed to have made, a loan in an amount equal to the amount drawn upon such letter of credit. A reserve will be established against the availability of loans under the Loan Agreement in an amount equal to 105% of the undrawn face amount of all letters of credit. Upon the earlier of the due date or date of payment of any costs, fees or expenses incurred by Clean Energy or any of its affiliates in connection with procuring the issuance of any such letter of credit, CE Dallas will be deemed to have requested, and Clean Energy will have been deemed to have made, a loan in an amount equal to such costs, fees or expenses.
· Interest Rate. All outstanding obligations under the Loan Agreement will bear interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof (including on the unpaid principal amount of the loans and, to the extent permitted by law, on interest thereon or fees not paid when due) at a per annum rate of 12%. Additionally, the aggregate undrawn amount of all letters of credits will bear interest in the same fashion as the outstanding obligations referred to above. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the occurrence of any default under the Loan Agreement, all such outstanding obligations referred to above will, at the option of Clean Energy, bear interest at a per annum rate of 15%.
· Payment of Loan. CE Dallas will pay interest on September 30, 2008, and then on the last day of each calendar quarter thereafter until payment in full of any principal outstanding under the Loan Agreement. CE Dallas will repay principal in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding loans and (ii) $2,800,000, beginning on August 1, 2009, and on each anniversary thereafter, and ending on August 1, 2013, on which date CE Dallas will repay the remaining principal balance plus any interest then due.
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· Voluntary Prepayments. CE Dallas may prepay principal in full or in part at any time without the payment of a prepayment fee or premium. Any prepayment will be applied to the most remote payment of principal due under the Loan Agreement.
· Mandatory Prepayments. CE Dallas must prepay the outstanding principal amount of the loans following the receipt by CE Dallas or any of its subsidiaries of:
· Net cash sales proceeds from any asset disposition by an amount equal to 100% of the amount of such net cash sales proceeds.
· Net cash proceeds from the sale, loss, destruction, taking, or condemnation of any assets of CE Dallas or any of its subsidiaries by an amount equal to 100% of the amount of such net cash proceeds.
· Net cash issuance proceeds from the issuance of indebtedness of CE Dallas or any of its subsidiaries by an amount equal to 100% of the amount of such net cash issuance proceeds.
· Net cash issuance proceeds from the issuance of equity of CE Dallas or any of its subsidiaries by an amount equal to 100% of the amount of such net cash issuance proceeds if such equity is issued for any reason other than for the purpose of acquiring specific property substantially concurrently therewith.
· Ancillary Agreements. In connection with the Loan Agreement, on August 15, 2008, Clean Energy, CE Dallas and Cambrian also entered into the following ancillary agreements:
· Promissory Note. CE Dallas executed a promissory note in favor of Clean Energy pursuant to which CE Dallas promised to pay to Clean Energy $14,000,000 or such lesser amount as it is then obligated to pay to Clean Energy under the Loan Agreement.
· Security Agreement. To secure the indebtedness and obligations of CE Dallas to Clean Energy under the Loan Agreement (and any related documents), CE Dallas and Clean Energy entered into a Security Agreement pursuant to which CE Dallas granted to Clean Energy a security interest in all of the right, title and interest of CE Dallas in and to all of its assets.
· Pledge Agreement. To secure the indebtedness and obligations of Cambrian to Clean Energy under the Non-Recourse Guaranty (described below), Cambrian and Clean Energy entered into a Pledge Agreement pursuant to which Cambrian granted to Clean Energy a security interest in all of its membership interests in CE Dallas (and any distributions, redemption payments, liquidation payments, interest or premiums with respect to such membership interests).
· Non-Recourse Guaranty. Cambrian and Clean Energy entered into a Non-Recourse Guaranty pursuant to which Cambrian guaranteed the full and prompt payment of all indebtedness and obligations of CE Dallas to Clean Energy when due. The only recourse for Clean Energy for the satisfaction of the liability of Cambrian under the Non-Recourse Guaranty is to foreclose upon the collateral pledged by Cambrian to Clean Energy under the Pledge Agreement.
· Letter Agreement re Subordination of Management Fees. Cambrian and Clean Energy entered into a letter agreement pursuant to which Cambrian agreed to subordinate all management fees or compensation payable to it or its affiliates by CE Dallas to all amounts owed to Clean Energy in connection with the indebtedness and obligations of CE Dallas to Clean Energy under the Loan Agreement.
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Immediately after the closing of the acquisition of DCE by CE Dallas, on August 15, 2008, CE Dallas merged with and into DCE, with DCE surviving. Upon the effectiveness of the merger, DCE assumed all of the indebtedness and obligations of CE Dallas under the Loan Agreement and all instruments, documents and agreements executed in connection with the Loan Agreement, including the Promissory Note and the Security Agreement.
Complete copies of the Loan Agreement, Promissory Note, Security Agreement, Pledge Agreement, Non-Recourse Guaranty and Letter Agreement re Subordination of Management Fees are attached as Exhibits 99.3, 99.4, 99.5, 99.6, 99.7 and 99.8 to this report, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference. The summary of the agreements described above does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such agreements.
Credit Agreement with PlainsCapital Bank
On August 15, 2008, we and Clean Energy, our wholly-owned subsidiary (collectively, we, our or us), entered into a Credit Agreement (Credit Agreement) with PlainsCapital Bank (PCB) pursuant to which PCB agreed to provide secured financing to us on the following terms and conditions:
· Facility A Loan. PCB loaned us $18,000,000 (the Facility A Loan) upon the execution of the Credit Agreement.
· Facility B Loans. During the time period commencing August 15, 2008 and ending February 15, 2009, we may, from time to time, request one or more additional loans from PCB (collectively, the Facility B Loans), provided that: (i) the aggregate amount of the Facility B Loans made by PCB, after giving effect to such requested loan(s), does not exceed $12,000,000; and (ii) all other applicable conditions precedent set forth in the Credit Agreement are satisfied. Upon the execution of the Credit Agreement, PCB loaned us Facility B Loans in the aggregate amount of $4.1 million.
· Interest Rate. Interest accrues daily on the Facility A Loan and the Facility B Loans at the following rate (the Adjusted Base Rate): the greater of (i) for each calendar month, the prime rate of interest for the United States published in the Borrowing Benchmarks section of the Wall Street Journal on the first business day of such calendar month, plus 0.50% per annum (the Base Rate), and (ii) 5.50% per annum; except that the interest rate may never exceed the maximum interest rate allowed by applicable law. If we are in default under the Credit Agreement, the interest rate for the Facility A Loan and the Facility B Loans will be, at the time in question, the Base Rate then in effect plus 5.00% per annum, unless otherwise agreed by PCB.
· Payments under Facility A Loan. The first payment of principal and interest on the Facility A Loan in the amount of $153,868 will be due and payable on September 15, 2008. Each subsequent payment of principal and interest will be in such amount as determined by PCB to be necessary to amortize the principal balance of the Facility A Loan in level payments of principal and accrued interest over 14 year period (calculated using the Adjusted Base Rate then in effect); and each such payment will be due on the 15th of each month commencing October 15, 2008, and continuing regularly thereafter until August 15, 2013, at which time the entire amount of the principal and interest then remaining unpaid under the Facility A Loan will become due and payable.
· Payments under Facility B Loan. Interest computed upon the unpaid principal balance of the Facility B Loans will be due and payable quarterly as it accrues commencing on September 30, 2008, and continuing regularly on the last day of each fiscal quarter thereafter until payment in full of any principal outstanding amount of the Facility B Loans. The principal amount of the Facility B Loans will be due and payable in annual payments commencing on August 1, 2009, and continuing on each anniversary date thereafter, with each such payment being in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the Facility B Loans then outstanding and (ii) $2,800,000; provided that on August 15, 2013, the entire amount of principal and interest then remaining unpaid under the Facility B Loans will become due and payable.
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· Voluntary Prepayments. We may from time to time, and without premium or penalty, prepay the Facility A Loan and the Facility B Loans. Each prepayment of principal will be accompanied by all interest then accrued and unpaid on the principal so prepaid.
· Mandatory Prepayments. We are required to make the following mandatory repayments of the Facility A Loan and the Facility B Loans:
· Clean Energy will immediately deliver to PCB all proceeds (net of reasonable expenses) received by Clean Energy from the sale of membership interests in CE Dallas (and following the merger of CE Dallas with and into DCE, in DCE) to Cambrian pursuant to Cambrians exercise of the option described under Limited Liability Company Agreement of CE Dallas Renewables LLC Cambrian Option above. All of such amounts will be applied as a prepayment of the Facility A Loan; and to the extent that any such prepayment would exceed the then outstanding principal amount of the Facility A Loan, PCB may elect, in its sole discretion, to apply such excess amount as a prepayment of the Facility B Loans.
· Clean Energy will immediately deliver to PCB any voluntary or mandatory prepayments of the indebtedness evidenced by the Loan Agreement and related documents between Clean Energy and CE Dallas (and following the merger of CE Dallas with and into DCE, DCE) (collectively, the Clean Energy Loan Documents). See Loan Agreement with CE Dallas Renewables LLC for more information. All of such amounts will be applied as a prepayment of the Facility B Loans.
· On the last day of each fiscal quarter, Clean Energy will deliver to PCB the amount, if any, by which the interest received by Clean Energy pursuant to the Clean Energy Loan Documents on such date exceeds the amount of interest due on the Facility B Loans on such date. All of such amounts will be applied as a prepayment of the Facility B Loans.
· No Re-Borrowing. Amounts borrowed and repaid on the Facility A Loan and the Facility B Loans may not be re-borrowed.
· Use of Proceeds. We were required to use the proceeds from the Facility A Loan to consummate the acquisition of DCE by CE Dallas pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. We are required to use the proceeds from the Facility B Loans for the following purposes: (i) to fund a payment reserve account specified in the Credit Agreement, (ii) to advance funds to CE Dallas (and, following the merger of CE Dallas with and into DCE, to DCE) pursuant to the terms of the Loan Agreement between CE Dallas and Clean Energy (see Loan Agreement with CE Dallas Renewables LLC above for more information); (iii) to pay all costs and expenses incurred by us in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement; and (iv) to pay all fees payable to PCB in connection with the Credit Agreement.
· Negative Covenants. We are subject to a number of negative covenants under the Credit Agreement, including the following:
· No Indebtedness or Liens. We may not owe or be liable for any indebtedness other than certain indebtedness permitted by the Credit Agreement; and except for certain permitted liens, we may not create, assume or permit to exist any lien upon any of our properties or assets.
· Limitation on Dividends and Redemptions. We may not declare or make, directly or indirectly, any dividend, distribution or redemption payment (i) if either an event of default under the Credit Agreement will have occurred and is continuing, or (ii) if immediately before and after giving pro forma effect to such dividend, distribution or redemption payment, we would not be in pro forma compliance with the negative covenants described below under Minimum Liquidity, Accounts Receivable, Minimum Consolidated Net Worth, Maximum Consolidated Funded Debt to Equity Ratio, and Global Debt Service Coverage Ratio.
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· Minimum Liquidity. As of the end of each fiscal quarter, beginning December 31, 2008, the aggregate amount of cash and cash equivalents of Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and its properly consolidated subsidiaries that are not subject to any lien (other than permitted liens) must not be less than $6,000,000.
· Accounts Receivable. As of the end of each calendar month, our accounts receivable must not be less than $10,000,000.
· Minimum Consolidated Net Worth. As of the end of each fiscal quarter, beginning September 30, 2008, the consolidated net worth of Clean Energy Fuels Corp., minus all assets which would be treated as intangibles under GAAP, must not be less than $150,000,000.
· Maximum Consolidated Funded Debt to Equity Ratio. As of the end of each fiscal quarter, beginning September 30, 2008, the ratio of (i) the consolidated funded debt of Clean Energy Fuels Corp. as of the end of such fiscal quarter to (ii) the consolidated net worth for Clean Energy Fuels Corp. for such fiscal quarter may not be greater than 0.3:1.
· Global Debt Service Coverage Ratio. As of the end of each fiscal quarter, beginning June 30, 2009, we must maintain a Global Debt Service Coverage Ratio (defined below) of at least 1.50:1. Global Debt Service Coverage Ratio means, for any period, the ratio of (1) the consolidated EBITDA of Clean Energy Fuels Corp., to (2) the aggregate amount of consolidated interest expense of Clean Energy Fuels Corp. for borrowed money and interest expense for capital leases and current maturities of long-term indebtedness and current maturities of capital leases for such period.
· Events of Default; Acceleration of Debt. There are a number of events of default under the Credit Agreement. If we become insolvent or fail to make a required payment under the Credit Agreement (or any related agreement) within specified time periods (in each case an event of default), all of the obligations and indebtedness under the Credit Agreement (or any related agreement) will become immediately due and payable. Upon any such acceleration, any obligation of PCB to make any further loans under the Credit Agreement will be terminated. During the continuance of any other event of default, PCB may do either or both of the following: (i) terminate any obligation of PCB to make loans under the Credit Agreement, and (ii) declare any or all of the indebtedness and obligations under the Credit Agreement immediately due and payable.
· Ancillary Agreements. In connection with the Credit Agreement, on August 15, 2008, we and PCB also entered into the following ancillary agreements:
· Promissory Note (Facility A). We executed a promissory note in favor of PCB pursuant to which we promised to pay to PCB $18,000,000 or such lesser amount as we are then obligated to pay to PCB under the Facility A Loan.
· Promissory Note (Facility B). We executed a promissory note in favor of PCB pursuant to which we promised to pay to PCB $12,000,000 or such lesser amount as we are then obligated to pay to PCB under the Facility B Loans.
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· Collateral Assignment and Security Agreement. To secure our obligations under the Credit Agreement (and related documents), Clean Energy executed a Collateral Assignment and Security Agreement in favor of PCB pursuant to which Clean Energy assigned and granted a security interest to PCB in all of its right, title and interest in and to the Promissory Note, Security Agreement and other collateral loan documents described under Loan Agreement with CE Dallas Renewables LLC above.
· Security Agreement (Vehicle Tankers). To secure our obligations under the Credit Agreement (and related documents), we entered into a Security Agreement in favor of PCB pursuant to which we granted a security interest in 45 of our 60 tanker trailers.
· Security Agreement (Accounts Receivable and Inventory). To secure our obligations under the Credit Agreement (and related documents), we and certain of our other subsidiaries entered into a Security Agreement in favor of PCB pursuant to which we granted a security interest in and to all of our accounts receivable and inventory.
· Pledge Agreement. To secure our obligations under the Credit Agreement (and related documents), Clean Energy executed a Pledge Agreement in favor of PCB pursuant to which Clean Energy granted to PCB a security interest in all of Clean Energys membership interests in CE Dallas.
Complete copies of the Credit Agreement, Promissory Note (Facility A), Promissory Note (Facility B), Collateral Assignment and Security Agreement, Security Agreement (Vehicle Tankers), Security Agreement (Accounts Receivable and Inventory) and Pledge Agreement are attached as Exhibits 99.9, 99.10, 99.11, 99.12, 99.13, 99.14 and 99.15 to this report, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference. The summary of the agreements described above does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such agreements.
Item 2.03. Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
See Item 1.01 of this report under Credit Agreement with PlainsCapital Bank.
Item 3.03. Material Modifications to Rights of Security Holders.
See Item 1.01 of this report under Credit Agreement with PlainsCapital Bank.
Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.
On August 18, 2008, we issued a press release announcing the acquisition of DCE by CE Dallas. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.16 to this report and incorporated herein by reference.
The information in this Item 7.01 and Exhibit 99.16 is being furnished and shall not be deemed filed for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section.
Item 9.01. Exhibits and Financial Statements.
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Due to the size of the transaction, we do not expect to file financial statements of DCE. |
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Membership Interests Purchase and Sale Agreement dated August 15, 2008, among CE Dallas Renewables LLC, Clean Energy, Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC, Camco DCE, Inc, Camco DCE Limited and Camco International Ltd. |
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99.2 Limited Liability Company Agreement of CE Dallas Renewables LLC dated August 15, 2008 between Clean Energy and Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC.
99.3 Loan Agreement dated August 15, 2008 between Clean Energy and CE Dallas Renewables LLC.
99.4 Promissory Note dated August 15, 2008 executed by CE Dallas Renewables LLC in favor of Clean Energy.
99.5 Security Agreement dated August 15, 2008 between Clean Energy and CE Dallas Renewables LLC.
99.6 Pledge Agreement dated August 15, 2008 between Clean Energy and Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC.
99.7 Non-Recourse Guaranty dated August 15, 2008 between Clean Energy and Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC.
99.8 Letter Agreement dated August 15, 2008 between Clean Energy and Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC regarding Subordination of Management Fees.
99.9 Credit Agreement dated August 15, 2008, among Clean Energy Fuels Corp., Clean Energy and PlainsCapital Bank.
99.10 Promissory Note (Facility A) dated August 15, 2008 executed by Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and Clean Energy in favor of PlainsCapital Bank.
99.11 Promissory Note (Facility B) dated August 15, 2008 executed by Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and Clean Energy in favor of PlainsCapital Bank.
99.12 Collateral Assignment and Security Agreement dated August 15, 2008 executed by Clean Energy in favor of PlainsCapital Bank.
99.13 Security Agreement (Vehicle Tankers) dated August 15, 2008 executed by Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and Clean Energy in favor of PlainsCapital Bank.
99.14 Security Agreement (Accounts Receivable and Inventory) dated August 15, 2008 executed by Clean Energy Fuels Corp., Clean Energy and certain other grantors in favor of PlainsCapital Bank.
99.15 Pledge Agreement dated August 15, 2008 executed by Clean Energy in favor of PlainsCapital Bank.
99.16 Press Release dated August 18, 2008, issued by Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Date: August 21, 2008 |
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. |
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/s/ Richard R. Wheeler |
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Name: Richard R. Wheeler |
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Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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Exhibit 99.1
MEMBERSHIP
INTERESTS PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT
by and among
CAMCO
INTERNATIONAL LTD.
Camco Ltd.,
CAMCO
DCE LIMITED.
Camco DCE Limited,
CAMCO
DCE, INC.
Camco DCE, Inc.,
CE
DALLAS RENEWABLES LLC
Buyer,
CLEAN
ENERGY
Clean Energy
and
CAMBRIAN
ENERGY MCCOMMAS BLUFF LLC
Cambrian
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION |
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SECTION 1.1 |
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ARTICLE II PURCHASE AND SALE |
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SECTION 2.1 |
Purchase and Sale |
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SECTION 2.2 |
Purchase Price |
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SECTION 2.3 |
Purchase Price Adjustment |
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SECTION 2.4 |
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SECTION 2.5 |
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ARTICLE III CLOSING |
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SECTION 3.1 |
Closing |
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SECTION 3.2 |
Deliverables from the Sellers |
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SECTION 3.3 |
Deliverables from Buyer |
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ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE SELLERS |
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SECTION 4.1 |
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SECTION 4.2 |
DCE Representations |
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ARTICLE V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF BUYER |
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SECTION 5.1 |
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SECTION 5.2 |
Authority |
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Enforceability |
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SECTION 5.4 |
No Litigation |
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Consents |
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Brokers or Finders |
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Investment Representations |
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ARTICLE VI COVENANTS |
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MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT
THIS MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT (the Agreement) is made and entered into on the 15th day of August, 2008, by and among Camco International Ltd., a Jersey company (Camco Ltd.), Camco DCE Limited, a Jersey company (Camco DCE Limited), Camco DCE, Inc., a Delaware corporation (Camco DCE, Inc.), Clean Energy, a California corporation (Clean Energy), Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (Cambrian), and CE Dallas Renewables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (Buyer).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, on November 30, 2007, Dallas Clean Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (DCE), as permitted assignee of Camco DCE, Inc. (formerly named Camco International, Inc.), acquired through a bankruptcy proceeding filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division (the Bankruptcy Court), in Case No. 07-32219-HDH-11 styled In re McCommas LFG Processing Partners, LP, and in Case No. 07-32222-HDH-11, styled In re McCommas Landfill Partners, LP (together, the Bankruptcy Case), pursuant to a Joint Asset Purchase and Sale Agreement with McCommas LFG Processing Partners, LP and McCommas Landfill Partners, LP dated September 12, 2007 (the Joint Asset Purchase Agreement), certain assets at the McCommas Bluff Landfill in Dallas, Texas, including the Landfill Gas Lease, the Gas Sale Agreement, the Collection System and the Processing Facility (each as defined herein) (collectively, the McCommas Bluff Energy Project Assets);
WHEREAS, Buyer is a joint venture of Clean Energy and Cambrian that was formed for the purpose of the transactions contemplated herein; and
WHEREAS, Buyer desires to purchase, and Camco DCE Limited and Camco DCE, Inc. (together, the Sellers) desire to sell, all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of DCE on the terms set forth in this Agreement.
AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Buyer, Clean Energy and Cambrian (collectively, the Purchasing Parties) and the Sellers and Camco Ltd. (collectively, the Selling Parties) hereby agree as follows:
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Adjustment Amount has the meaning specified in Section 2.3(c).
Adjustment Statement has the meaning specified in Section 2.3(a).
Affiliate means, with respect to a specified Person, a Person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, the Person specified. The term control (including the terms controlling, controlled by and under common control with) means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
Agreed Portion of Losses has the meaning specified in Section 8.4(b)(ii).
Agreement means this Membership Interests Purchase and Sale Agreement between the Selling Parties and the Purchasing Parties.
Applicable Law means all laws of any Governmental Authority, including federal and state securities laws, Tax laws, ordinances, judgments, decrees, injunctions, writs and Orders or like actions of any Governmental Authority and rules and regulations of any federal, regional, state, county, municipal or other Governmental Authority, which are applicable to the specified Person or the McCommas Bluff Energy Project Assets, as applicable.
Asserted Losses Amount has the meaning specified in Section 8.4(a).
Books and Records has the meaning specified in Section 2.4.
Business Day means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to be closed in New York, New York.
Buyer means CE Dallas Renewables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
Buyers Indemnitee has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(b).
Cambrian means Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
Cambrian Claims means any and all claims for damages, specific performance or other remedies that could be asserted against any of DCE, Camco Ltd., Camco DCE, Inc. or Camco DCE Limited by Cambrian Development with respect to the ownership of membership interests in DCE, the rights to own and operate the McCommas Bluff Energy Project or otherwise arising out of any transaction between or pursued jointly by Camco Ltd. or any of its Affiliates, on the one hand, and Cambrian Development or any of its Affiliates, on the other hand, during the term of the Confidentiality Agreement between Cambrian Development and Camco Ltd. dated as of June 20, 2007 (and for avoidance of doubt, prior to the Closing Date).
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Cambrian Development means Cambrian Energy Development LLC, a California limited liability company.
Camco DCE, Inc. means Camco DCE, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Camco Ltd.
Camco DCE Limited means Camco DCE Limited, a Jersey company and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Camco Ltd.
Camco Ltd. means Camco International Ltd., a Jersey company.
Capital Expenditure means any amount of funds expended for any addition to or replacement or repair of property, plant or equipment that, in each case, would be capitalized by DCE in accordance with GAAP.
Carbon Asset Development Agreement has the meaning set forth in Section 6.4.
City means The City of Dallas, a municipal corporation and a political subdivision of the State of Texas.
Claims Deposit has the meaning specified in Section 2.2(b).
Claims Escrow has the meaning specified in Section 8.4(a).
Claim Notice means written notification of a Third Party Claim as to which indemnity under Section 8.2 is sought by an Indemnitee, enclosing a copy of all papers served, if any, and specifying the nature of and basis for such Third Party Claim and for the Indemnitees claim against the indemnifying party under Section 8.2.
Clean Energy means Clean Energy, a California corporation.
Collection System means all wells, valves, sumps, pumps, drains, lateral piping, headers, blowers, flares and other tangible personal property owned by DCE and installed in or on the real property included within one or more of the Landfill or the Site and used for or in connection with the collection and transportation of Landfill Gas.
Consent means a consent, approval, Order, or authorization of, or registration, declaration, notice or filing with, or exemption by a Governmental Authority or other Person (other than a Selling Party, any Affiliate of a Selling Party, a Purchasing Party or any Affiliate of a Purchasing Party).
DCE means Dallas Clean Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
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Encumbrances means all liens (including mechanics, materialmens and other consensual and non-consensual liens and statutory liens), mortgages, pledges, claims, security interests, charges, conditions, rights of first refusal, offsets, contracts, recoupment, rights of recovery, claims for reimbursement, contribution, indemnity, exoneration, claims (as that term is defined in the Bankruptcy Code), rights of another, or other restrictions or encumbrances, legal or equitable, or of any other kind whatsoever, whether known or unknown, choate or inchoate, filed or unfiled, scheduled or unscheduled, noticed or unnoticed.
Environmental Laws means all federal, state and local laws, regulations, rules, ordinances, codes, decrees, judgments, directives or judicial or administrative orders relating to pollution or protection of the environment, natural resources or human health and safety, including laws relating to releases or threatened releases of Hazardous Materials (including releases to ambient air, surface air, surface water, groundwater, land, surface and subsurface strata) or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, release, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials. Environmental Laws includes the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) (42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq.), the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. § 1801 et seq.), the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.), the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7104 et seq.), the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act (33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq.), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. § 11001 et seq.), the Occupational Safety and Health Act (29 U.S.C. § 561 et seq.), and all other federal, state, local or foreign laws analogous to any of the above.
Escrow Agent means Commerce Escrow Company, 1545 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 600, Los Angeles, California 90017.
Escrow Agreement means an escrow agreement in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A among Buyer, the Sellers and the Escrow Agent.
GAAP means United States generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time to time, applied on a consistent basis.
Gas Sales Agreement means the month-to-month Base Contract for the Short-Term Purchase and Sale of Natural Gas dated November 21, 2003 between TXU Gas Company and its successors in interest, as buyer, and McCommas LFG Processing Partners, LP, as seller, as such agreement may have been superseded, amended or modified to date.
Governmental Authority means any federal, state, municipal or local government, regulatory or administrative agency, governmental commission, department, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, court, tribunal, arbitrator or arbitral body.
Hazardous Material means any substance, material or waste that is regulated by any Governmental Authority, under any Environmental Law, including any material, substance or waste which is defined as a hazardous waste, hazardous material, hazardous substance, extremely hazardous waste, restricted hazardous waste, contaminant, toxic waste, or toxic substance under any provision of any Environmental Law, and including petroleum, petroleum products, fractions of petroleum, asbestos, asbestos-containing material, ureaformaldahyde and polychlorinated biphenyls.
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Indebtedness means (a) all indebtedness for borrowed money, (b) any other indebtedness that is evidenced by a note, bond, debenture, draft or similar instrument, (c) notes payable, (d) lines of credit and any other agreements relating to the borrowing of money or extension of credit, (e) all liabilities for the deferred purchase price of property, (f) all liabilities under financing or capital leases, (g) all liabilities pursuant to any phantom equity plan, liabilities with respect to stock appreciation or similar rights or otherwise to employees as a result of a change of control, and (h) all liabilities for the reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of credit, bankers acceptance or similar credit transaction securing obligations of a type described in any clause above to the extent of the obligation secured, and all liabilities as obligor or guarantor to the extent of the obligation secured.
Indemnification Demand has the meaning specified in Section 8.4(a).
Indemnifying Party has the meaning specified in Section 8.3(a).
Indemnitee has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(b).
Landfill means the property containing approximately 964.44 acres and located in Dallas County, Texas, which is the portion of the McCommas Bluff Landfill permitted under Permit Number 62, and is more particularly described in Exhibit B.
Landfill Gas means the methane, carbon dioxide and other gases produced by the anaerobic decomposition of refuse organic material within the portion of the Landfill under Permit Number 62 but does not include natural gas, oil or any other hydrocarbon substances.
Landfill Gas Lease means collectively the Lease to Develop Landfill Gas executed on December 12, 1994, by the City and Dallas Landfill Gas Production, L.L.C., and all amendments and modifications thereto, including (i) the First Amendment to Lease to Develop Landfill Gas dated July 10, 2003 between the City and McCommas Bluff Landfill Partners, LP as successor in interest to Dallas Landfill Gas Production, L.L.C., a Texas limited liability company, predecessor by merger to Dallas Landfill Gas Production, L.L.C., a Texas limited liability company, (ii) the Acknowledgement Agreement dated November 19, 2007 between William Snyder, the chapter 11 trustee of McCommas LFG Processing Partners, LP and McCommas Landfill Partners, LP, Camco DCE, Inc. and the City, and (iii) the Acknowledgement with Respect to Horizontal System dated August 15, 2008, between DCE and the City.
Legal Entitlement means any one or more of the permits, licenses, approvals, authorizations, consents, orders, certificates, filings, zoning changes or variances, and entitlements of whatever kind and however described, including all amendments, modifications and supplements thereof, which are required under applicable law to be obtained or maintained by any person or entity with respect to the Collection System, the Processing Facility, Utilities, or operations or infrastructure associated with the McCommas Bluff Energy Project Assets.
Liability Cap has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(h)(i).
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Liability Threshold has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(h)(ii).
Loss has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(a).
Material Adverse Effect means any effect, change, event, occurrence, circumstance or development that, individually or in the aggregate with all other effects, changes, events, occurrences, circumstances or developments, is materially adverse to (x) the business, assets, liabilities (contingent or otherwise), results of operations or financial condition of DCE or (y) the ability of the Selling Parties to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, other than effects, changes, events, occurrences, circumstances or developments that are due to (i) any general deterioration in the financial or market conditions affecting the wholesale or retail markets for energy that do not disproportionately affect DCE; (ii) any act of terrorism, declaration or commencement of a new war, material escalation of current wars, or other global unrest or international hostilities that does not disproportionately affect DCE; or (iii) entering into, or the taking of any action required by, this Agreement.
Material Contracts means (i) the Landfill Gas Lease, (ii) the Gas Sales Agreement and (iii) any other contracts and agreements relating to the McCommas Bluff Energy Project Assets to which DCE (directly or as an assignee) is a party and which entitles DCE to receive, or requires DCE to pay, in excess of $25,000 within any calendar year.
McCommas Bluff Energy Project Assets has the meaning set forth in the recitals to this Agreement.
Membership Interests means all of the issued and outstanding membership interests in DCE.
Orders means all decrees, judgments, injunctions, rulings, or other orders of a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction.
Ordinary Course of Business means the operation and maintenance by DCE of the McCommas Bluff Energy Project Assets in the ordinary and normal course since November 30, 2007.
Organizational Documents means, with respect to a particular entity, such entitys articles of incorporation, certificates of formation, limited liability company operating agreement, bylaws, or other equivalent primary charter documents, as applicable.
Parties means Camco Ltd., Camco DCE, Inc., Camco DCE Limited, Buyer, Cambrian and Clean Energy.
Permitted Encumbrances means (i) Encumbrances of current Taxes and assessments not yet delinquent, (ii) Encumbrances incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business for obligations not yet due to materialmen, warehousemen, landlords, and the like, (iii) rights reserved to or vested in any municipality or governmental, statutory or public authority to control or regulate any of the McCommas Bluff Energy Project Assets in any manner, and (iv) other Encumbrances or imperfections on property that apparent on their face are immaterial in amount or do not materially detract from the value or materially impair the use of the property affected by such lien or imperfection.
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Person means any individual, corporation, business trust, proprietorship, firm, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, trust, association, joint venture, Governmental Authority or other entity.
Personal Property means (i) the Collection System, (ii) the Processing Facility, and (iii) such other tangible and intangible personal property that is owned by DCE.
Proceeding means any action, suit, litigation, arbitration, Proceeding (including any civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or appellate Proceeding), hearing, inquiry, audit or examination commenced, brought, conducted or heard by or before, or otherwise involving, any court or other Governmental Authority or any arbitrator or arbitration panel.
Processing Facility means all of the equipment, piping, vessels, engine-compressor, meters, electric power distribution facilities and other tangible personal property located at the Site and used for the processing, treatment, measurement and delivery of Landfill Gas collected at the Landfill.
Project means (i) the Landfill, (ii) the Site, (iii) the Collection System, (iv) the Processing Facility and (v) all other improvements contained on, at or under the Landfill or the Site.
Purchase Price has the meaning specified in Section 2.2(a).
Purchasing Parties means Buyer, Cambrian and Clean Energy.
Release means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment of any Hazardous Materials.
Representatives means with respect to any Party, such Partys Affiliates together with such Party and its Affiliates respective directors, officers, partners, members, managers, employees, representatives, agents and advisors (including accountants, legal counsel, environmental consultants and financial advisors).
Response has the meaning specified in Section 8.4(b).
SCS has the meaning specified in Section 9.1.
Sellers means Camco DCE, Inc. and Camco DCE Limited.
Sellers Indemnitee has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(a).
Selling Parties means the Sellers and Camco Ltd.
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Site means the parcel of real property located adjacent to the Landfill and more particularly described on Exhibit C attached hereto.
Survival Expiration Date has the meaning specified in Section 8.1.
Tax Claim has the meaning specified in Section 7.3(a).
Tax Indemnified Party has the meaning specified in Section 7.3(a).
Tax Indemnifying Party has the meaning specified in Section 7.3(a).
Tax Return means any return, report, information return or other document (including any related or supporting information) required to be supplied to any authority with respect to Taxes.
Taxes means all taxes, assessments, charges, duties, fees, levies or other governmental charges, including all federal, state, local and foreign income, franchise, profits, capital gains, capital stock, transfer, sales, use, occupation, property, excise, severance, windfall profits, stamp, license, payroll, withholding and other taxes, assessments, charges, duties, fees, levies or other governmental charges of any kind whatsoever (whether payable directly or by withholding and whether or not requiring the filing of a return), and all estimated taxes, deficiency assessments, additions to tax, penalties and interest.
Third Party Claim has the meaning specified in Section 8.3(a).
Transaction Documents means this Agreement and each other agreement, instrument or certificate issued or executed in connection herewith, including the Claims Escrow Agreement, the Assignment of Membership Interests, the Cambrian Release and the Cambrian Representations Agreement.
Transfer Taxes means all state and local sales, use and other similar Taxes and all related fees or similar charges that arise from or relate solely to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
Utilities means any and all utility and similar services and installations whatsoever (including natural gas, potable and non-potable water, wastewater, sewer, electricity, air, oil, telephone, and telecommunications), and all pipelines, piping, poles, power lines, conveyors, trenches, casements, wiring, conduit, valves, meters, switches, pumps, tanks, transformers, switchgear and other fixtures and structures of every kind whatsoever related thereto or used in connection therewith.
VERs means voluntary carbon emission reduction credits or equivalent regulated emission reduction credits governed under state, national, regional or international agreement that may exist with respect to the collection and destruction or use of Landfill Gas at the Landfill and with respect to the other activities that may be conducted by DCE with respect to the McCommas Bluff Energy Project Assets.
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provided, however, that the limitations contained in this Section 8.2(h) shall not apply to Losses arising from a breach of the representations and warranties contained in Sections 5.1 or 5.2, provided that no amounts of indemnity shall be payable under Section 8.2(a) in respect of a Loss to the extent that the aggregate amount of payments by the Buyer under Section 8.2(a) would exceed the Purchase Price, as adjusted by the Adjustment Amount, if any, at the time any Sellers Indemnitee seeks to enforce its indemnification rights under Section 8.2(a).
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provided, however, that the limitations contained in this Section 8.2(i) shall not apply to (i) Losses arising from a breach of the representations and warranties contained in Sections 4.1(a), 4.1(b), 4.1(f), 4.1(h), and Sections 4.2(a) and (j), or (ii) the Special Indemnity, provided that no amounts of indemnity shall be payable under Section 8.2(b) in respect of a Loss to the extent that the aggregate amount of payments by the Seller under Section 8.2(b) would exceed the Purchase Price, as adjusted by the Adjustment Amount, if any, at the time any Buyers Indemnitee seeks to enforce its indemnification rights under Section 8.2(b).
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To the Sellers or Camco Ltd.:
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10475 E. Park Meadows Drive, Suite 600 |
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Attention: |
Jim Wiest |
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(720) 279-2345 |
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(720) 279-2350 |
With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. |
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2200 Ross Avenue, Suite 2800 |
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Harva R. Dockery, Esq. |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed and delivered this Membership Interests Purchase and Sale Agreement.
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Exhibit 99.2
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT
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CE DALLAS RENEWABLES LLC
A Delaware Limited Liability Company
THIS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT (this Agreement) of CE Dallas Renewables LLC (the Company), dated August 15, 2008, is made and entered into by and among the Persons listed on the attached Schedule A hereto as Members of the Company and any additional Persons who become Members of the Company in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
WHEREAS, the Company has been formed for the sole purpose of acquiring from Camco DCE Limited and Camco DCE, Inc. all of the membership interests of Dallas Clean Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (DCE), immediately thereafter merging into DCE with this Agreement to become the limited liability company agreement of DCE upon such merger, and thereafter, through DCE as successor to the Company, continuing the process of repairing, improving, expanding and operating the Project (as hereafter defined) in accordance with this Agreement;
WHEREAS, DCE owns all of the leases, permits, equipment, personal property and tangible and intangible property and rights associated with the landfill gas to-high Btu gas energy project at the McCommas Bluff Landfill in Dallas County, City of Dallas, Texas (collectively, the Project);
WHEREAS, the Members intend to state in its entirety the Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Company to reflect their agreements with respect to the acquisition and ownership of all of the membership interests of DCE and indirectly the ownership and operation of the Project;
WHEREAS, subject to the limitations, terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, Clean Energy has committed to fund the Companys acquisition of the membership interests of DCE and the operation, repair and expansion of the Project;
WHEREAS, the Members constitute all of the current members of the Company; and
WHEREAS, the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, 6 Del. C. §§18-101, et seq., as amended from time to time (the Delaware Act), authorizes the adoption of a written agreement among members concerning the business and affairs of a limited liability company, and each of the parties to this Agreement desires to enter into such an agreement.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and the mutual promises and covenants hereinafter contained, the parties to this Agreement agree as follows.
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth below. Certain other terms used in this Agreement are defined elsewhere in this Agreement. For purposes of this Agreement, a defined term has its defined meaning throughout this Agreement and in each exhibit, attachment, and schedule to this Agreement, regardless of whether it appears before or after the place where it is defined. As used in this agreement, all pronouns and terms are gender-neutral.
Adjusted Capital Return means, solely as to Clean Energy, the Clean Energy Initial Capital Contribution reduced (but not below zero) at the end of each Fiscal Year, or portion thereof if the calculation is made on a date other than the end of the Fiscal Year, by the sum of (a) any distributions not from a Capital Transaction received by Clean Energy during such Fiscal Year or portion thereof, (b) the amount of any proceeds to Clean Energy from the sale of Member Interests owned by Clean Energy to Cambrian McCommas Bluff pursuant to exercise of the Option, and (c) the amount of any distributions from a Capital Transaction received by Clean Energy.
Advisor Expenses means any expenses incurred by the Company to any professional advisor, including any Person providing advice or services related to any one or more of engineering, accounting, operations and maintenance, and business practices or strategies.
Affiliate with respect to any person or entity, any other person or entity that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such person or entity; provided, however, the Company shall not be considered an Affiliate of a Member.
Agreement means this Limited Liability Company Agreement, as it may be amended or restated from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.
Assignee means any Person that acquires Member Interests or any portion thereof through a transfer made in accordance with this Agreement and that has not been admitted as a Member.
Board and Board of Managers have the meanings set forth in Section 9.1.
Business Day (whether such term is capitalized or not) means any day, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and any day on which banks are generally not open for business in the State of California.
Buy/Sell Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 13.9.
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Cambrian Energy means Cambrian Energy Development LLC, a California limited liability company, its successors and assigns.
Cambrian Energy Management means Cambrian Energy Management LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
Cambrian McCommas Bluff means Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC formerly known as Cambrian Energy/CLF McCommas Bluff LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, its successors and assigns.
Camco means Camco International, Inc., a Delaware limited liability company, its successors and assigns.
Capital Account means, with respect to any Member, the capital account established and maintained for such Member pursuant to Section 5.4.
Capital Contribution means, with respect to any Member, the aggregate amount of money, and the Gross Asset Value of any property other than money, contributed to the Company pursuant to Article V hereof with respect to such Members Member Interest.
Capital Return Date means the date on which the balance of the Adjusted Capital Return becomes zero.
Capital Transaction means (i) any sale, refinancing or other disposition of the Project, whether by partial sale or otherwise or (ii) casualty (where the proceeds are not to be used for reconstruction), condemnation or similar event of any part of the Project, where the gross proceeds from such event exceed $100,000.
Certificate means the Certificate of Formation of the Company, as amended to date and as it may be further amended in accordance with this Agreement.
Clean Energy means Clean Energy, a California corporation, its successors and assigns.
Clean Energy Borrowing means any and all obligations of Clean Energy to make a payment to PlainsCapital Bank with respect to the borrowing of money by Clean Energy from PlainsCapital Bank pursuant to the PlainsCapital Bank Credit Agreement.
Clean Energy Initial Capital Contribution means the aggregate cash contribution in the amount of U.S. $18,400,000 made by Clean Energy to the Company and used to pay the purchase price for the membership interests of the Project Company.
Clean Energy Loan means the loan or loans to be made to the Project Company by Clean Energy or one or more of its Affiliates in principal amounts advanced not to exceed in the aggregate $14,000,000 determined on a non-revolving basis (including amounts considered so advanced with respect to Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 5.5 hereof as well as amounts advanced subject to Section 5.6 hereof), as evidenced by one or more promissory notes from the
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Company and Project Company and secured by the assets of the Company and the Project Company, to be used by the Project Company for Development Costs and by the Company to pay a portion of the purchase price payable to the Sellers under the Purchase Agreement.
Clean Energy Loan Documents means the promissory note or notes, loan agreement, security agreements, and other documents executed and delivered with respect to the Clean Energy Loan. The Clean Energy Loan Documents do not include this Agreement or any action of the Board or Members as such.
Closing Date means the date on which the purchase by the Company from Camco of all of the membership interests of the Project Company occurs pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement.
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended and in effect from time to time. Any reference herein to a specific section or sections of the Code shall be deemed to include a reference to any corresponding provision of future law.
Company has the meaning set forth in the preamble and, after the merger of the Company into the Project Company following the Closing Date, shall refer to the Project Company.
Company Minimum Gain means partnership minimum gain (as that term is defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(b)(2)) with respect to the Company.
Compensation Expense has the meaning set forth in Section 9.10(s).
Covered Person means any past or present Member, any successors or heirs of a past or present Member, any past or present Affiliate of a past or present Member, or any past or present officers, member of the Board of Managers, employees, consultants, representatives or agents of the Company, a past or present Member or their respective Affiliates, or any past or present employee, consultant, representative or agent of the Company or any of its Affiliates, or any past or present officer or advisor of the Company.
Delaware Act means the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, as amended.
Depreciation means, for each Fiscal Year, an amount equal to the depreciation, amortization or other cost recovery deduction allowable for federal income tax purposes with respect to an asset for such Fiscal Year; provided, however, that if the Gross Asset Value of an asset differs from its adjusted basis for federal income tax purposes at the beginning of such Fiscal Year, Depreciation shall be an amount that bears the same ratio to such beginning Gross Asset Value as the federal income tax depreciation, amortization or other cost recovery deduction with respect to such asset for such Fiscal Year bears to such beginning adjusted tax basis; and, provided further, that if the federal income tax depreciation, amortization or other cost recovery deduction for such Fiscal Year is zero, Depreciation shall be determined with reference to such beginning Gross Asset Value using any reasonable method selected by the Board.
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Development Costs means all expenditures which are required to (i) pay all legal fees and costs, travel and related expenses in connection with the negotiation or renegotiation of agreements applicable to the Project or Project Company, (ii) complete any capital repairs or improvements required to be funded from Development Sources, including any cost overruns pertaining thereto, and (iii) pay any operating losses until completion of any capital repairs or improvements, including those costs set forth on Schedule B attached hereto.
Development Sources means the aggregate of the net, funded proceeds of the Clean Energy Loan.
Disposition has the meaning set forth in Section 13.2 a.
Dragging Member has the meaning set forth in Section 13.8.
Drag-Along Right has the meaning set forth in Section 13.8.
Drag-Along Member or Drag-Along Members has the meaning set forth in Section 13.8.
Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Fiscal Year means any calendar year of the Company commencing on January 1 and ending on December 31, or any portion of such period for which the Company is required to allocate items of Company income, gain, loss or deduction.
GAAP means United States generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied in accordance with past practices.
Governmental Authority (whether such term is capitalized or not) means any United States (federal, state or local) or foreign government, or governmental, regulatory or administrative authority, agency or commission.
Gross Asset Value means, with respect to any asset, such assets adjusted basis for federal income tax purposes, except as follows:
(a) the initial Gross Asset Value of any property other than money contributed by a Member to the Company shall be the gross fair market value of such property, as agreed to by the contributing Member and the Board;
(b) the Gross Asset Value of all Company assets shall be adjusted to equal their respective gross fair market values, as determined by the Board, as of the following times: (i) the contribution of more than a de minimis amount of assets to the Company by a new or an existing Member as consideration for a Member Interest in the Company; (ii) the distribution by the Company to a Member of more than a de minimis amount of Company assets as consideration for the Member Interest of such Member; and (iii) the liquidation of the Company within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(g); provided, however, that
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adjustments pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this sentence shall be made only if the Board determines that such adjustments are necessary or appropriate to reflect the relative economic interests of the Members in the Company;
(c) the Gross Asset Value of any Company asset distributed to any Member shall be the gross fair market value of such asset on the date of distribution, as determined by the Board; and
(d) if the Gross Asset Value of an asset has been determined or adjusted pursuant to paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) above, such Gross Asset Value shall thereafter be adjusted by the Depreciation (and not the depreciation, amortization, or other cost recovery deductions allowable for federal income tax purposes) taken into account with respect to such asset for purposes of computing Profits and Losses.
Initial Capital Contribution has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1.
Initiating Member has the meaning set forth in the Section 13.9.
Involuntary Transfer has the meaning set forth in Section 13.2 d. i.
Involuntary Transfer Interest has the meaning set forth in Section 13.2 d. ii.
Involuntary Transferee has the meaning set forth in Section 13.2 d. i.
Involuntary Transferor has the meaning set forth in Section 13.2 d. ii.
Liquidation has the meaning set forth in Section 15.3.
Management Company means the Person serving as such from time to time in accordance with Article IX and that will provide management services to the Company pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
Management Compensation has the meaning set forth in Section 9.7(c).
Manager means a member, individually, of the Board of Managers and Managers means the members, collectively, of the Board of Managers.
Member means any Person executing this Agreement as of the date of this Agreement as a member or hereafter admitted to the Company as a member as provided in this Agreement, but such term does not include any Person who has ceased to be a member in the Company.
Member Interest means the interest of a Member in the Company, including rights to distributions (liquidating or otherwise), allocations, information, all other rights, benefits and privileges enjoyed by that Member (under the Delaware Act, the Certificate, this Agreement, or otherwise) in its capacity as a Member, and all obligations, duties, and liabilities imposed on that Member (under the Delaware Act, the Certificate, this Agreement, or otherwise) in its capacity as a Member; provided, however, that such term shall not include any management rights held by a Member solely in its capacity as a Manager.
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Operating Cash Flow means for each fiscal year the sum of all Operating Income minus all Operating Expenses, in each case determined separately for each Fiscal Year or portion thereof.
Operating Income means all cash received from operation of the Project in the ordinary course of business, including withdrawals from Company reserves for Operating Expenses to the extent otherwise permitted hereunder, and all other sources; provided, however, that Operating Income shall exclude (i) the proceeds of capital contributions, (ii) Development Sources, (iii) the proceeds of any other loans to the Company, (iv) interest earned on Company reserves for Operating Expenses (unless withdrawn as aforesaid), and (v) proceeds of any Capital Transaction.
Operating Expenses mean all expenses of operation of the Project as incurred by the Company, including without limitation, cumulative required debt service on the Clean Energy Loan or any other indebtedness of the Project Company, costs of utilities, maintenance, repairs and necessary replacements, real estate taxes, insurance premiums, professional fees, miscellaneous expenses, deposits to cash reserves, and any capital expenditures, repairs, or replacements, but excluding (i) Development Costs described on Schedule B and (ii) depreciation, amortization deductions and other non-cash items.
Option means the option granted to Cambrian McCommas Bluff by Clean Energy in Section 13.1 a. hereof to acquire Member Interests.
Permitted Transferee has the meaning set forth in Section 13.2 b. i.
Permitted Transfers has the meaning set forth in Section 13.2 b.
Person (whether or not capitalized) means an individual, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, syndicate, person (including a person as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), trust, association or entity or government, political subdivision, agency or instrumentality of a government.
PlainsCapital Bank means PlainsCapital Bank, a Texas state chartered bank, or its successor with respect to the Clean Energy Borrowing (but not in the capacity of holder of a Member Interest pursuant to a foreclosure under a pledge in connection with the Clean Energy Borrowing).
PlainsCapital Bank Credit Agreement means the Credit Agreement of even date herewith among PlainsCapital Bank, Clean Energy and Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a Delaware corporation, pertaining to a $30 million credit facility, as the same may be modified from time to time.
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Profits and Losses means, for each Fiscal Year, an amount equal to the Companys taxable income or loss for such Fiscal Year, determined in accordance with Section 703(a) of the Code (but including in taxable income or loss, for this purpose, all items of income, gain, loss or deduction required to be stated separately pursuant to Section 703(a)(1) of the Code), with the following adjustments:
(a) any income of the Company exempt from federal income tax and not otherwise taken into account in computing Profits or Losses pursuant to this definition shall be added to such taxable income or loss;
(b) any expenditures of the Company described in Section 705(a)(2)(B) of the Code (or treated as expenditures described in Section 705(a)(2)(B) of the Code pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(i)) and not otherwise taken into account in computing Profits or Losses pursuant to this definition shall be subtracted from such taxable income or loss;
(c) in the event the Gross Asset Value of any Company asset is adjusted in accordance with paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of the definition of Gross Asset Value above, the amount of such adjustment shall be taken into account as gain or loss from the disposition of such asset for purposes of computing Profits or Losses;
(d) gain or loss resulting from any disposition of any asset of the Company with respect to which gain or loss is recognized for federal income tax purposes shall be computed by reference to the Gross Asset Value of the asset disposed of, notwithstanding that the adjusted tax basis of such asset differs from its Gross Asset Value;
(e) in lieu of the depreciation, amortization and other cost recovery deductions taken into account in computing such taxable income or loss, there shall be taken into account Depreciation for such Fiscal Year; and
(f) notwithstanding any other provision of this definition, any items that are specially allocated pursuant to this Agreement shall not be taken into account in computing Profits and Losses.
The amounts of the items of Company income, gain, loss or deduction available to be specially allocated pursuant to Article VI shall be determined by applying rules analogous to those set forth in subparagraphs (a) through (f) above.
Prohibited Transfer has the meaning given by Section 13.3.
Project means those assets owned by the Project Company primarily consisting of landfill gas collection and processing equipment and related real and personal property and other associated rights, indirectly acquired or to be acquired by the Company pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and located at or in association with the McCommas Bluff Landfill in Dallas, Texas, together with any improvements, expansions, or replacements thereto, or gas processing or other energy production facilities later acquired, and any other interest or asset of the Project Company.
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Project Company means Dallas Clean Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, its successors and assigns, into which the Members intend that the Company shall be merged immediately following the Closing Date. References herein to Project Company shall refer to the Company upon and after consummation of the merger of the Company into the Project Company immediately after the Closing Date.
Purchase Agreement means the Membership Interests Purchase and Sale Agreement dated August 15, 2008 by and among the Company, Cambrian McCommas Bluff, Clean Energy, Camco DCE Limited, Camco DCE, Inc. and Camco International, Ltd.
Remaining Members has the meaning set forth in Section 13.2 c. ii.
Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Stated Value has the meaning set forth in Section 13.9.
Target Members has the meaning set forth in Section 13.9.
Tax or Taxes (and with correlative meaning, Taxable and Taxing) means any federal, state, local, or foreign income, gross receipts, franchise, estimated, alternative minimum, add-on minimum, sales, use, transfer, registration, value added, excise, natural resources, severance, stamp, withholding, occupation, premium, windfall profit, environmental, customs, duties, real property, personal property, capital stock, net worth, intangibles, social security, unemployment, disability, payroll, license, employee, or other tax or similar levy, of any kind whatsoever, including any interest, penalties, or additions to tax in respect of the foregoing.
Tax Distribution Amount means, with respect to a Member Interest for a Fiscal Year, the amount necessary to be distributed with respect to such Member Interest such that the holder of such Member Interest and the predecessors of such holder shall have received distributions pursuant to Section 7.1 clauses first through fourth during such Fiscal Year and all prior Fiscal Years of the Company at least equal to 40% of the cumulative amount of Profits and individual items of income or gain (other than tax-exempt income) of the Company in excess of the cumulative amount of Losses and individual items of loss, deduction or expenses (other than any expenditures of the Company described in Section 705(a)(2)(B) of the Code (or treated as expenditures described in Section 705(a)(2)(B) of the Code pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(i)) allocated to the holder of such Member Interest or the predecessors of such holder, in each case for such Fiscal Year and all prior Fiscal Years of the Company; provided, however, when a Tax Distribution Amount is required to be distributed with respect to a Member Interest, distributions will be made to both Members so that the Tax Distribution Amount with respect to the Member Interest and the distribution with respect to the other Member Interest are in the same proportions as the percentages set forth in Section 7.1(a) clause third or clause fourth, whichever then applies.
Tax Matters Member has the meaning set forth in Section 12.1(a).
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Transfer means, as a noun, any voluntary or involuntary transfer, sale, pledge or hypothecation or other disposition, whether directly or indirectly and whether through one or a series of transactions (including by way of a change of control or any Member), and, as a verb, voluntarily or involuntarily to transfer, sell, pledge or hypothecation or otherwise dispose of, whether directly or indirectly and whether through one or a series of transactions.
Transfer Interest has the meaning set forth in Section 13.2 c. i.
Transfer Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 13.2 c. i.
Transferring Member has the meaning set forth in Section 13.2 c. i.
Treasury Regulations means the permanent and temporary income tax regulations promulgated under the Code, as may be amended from time to time (including corresponding provisions of successor Treasury Regulations).
ARTICLE II
ORGANIZATION
2.1 Formation. The Company is a limited liability company organized under the provisions of the Delaware Act. The Certificate was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on August 5, 2008. The parties to this Agreement are all of the initial Members of the Company. A Members Member Interest in the Company shall be personal property for all purposes. All real and other property owned by the Company shall be deemed owned by the Company as an entity and no Member, individually, shall have any ownership of such property by reason of its Member Interest.
2.2 Name. The name of the Company is, and the business of the Company shall be conducted under the name of, CE Dallas Renewables LLC. The name of the Company may be changed from time to time by amendment of the Certificate in accordance with this Agreement. The Company may transact business under an assumed name by filing an assumed name certificate in the manner prescribed by applicable law.
2.3 Term. The term of the Company shall commence with the filing of a Certificate of Formation of a Limited Liability Company with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and shall continue thereafter until (i) statutorily dissolved or otherwise dissolved as provided in this Agreement and (ii) Liquidation is complete.
2.4 Offices. The registered office of the Company in the State of Delaware shall be the office of the initial registered agent named in the Certificate or such other office (which need not be a place of business of the Company) as the Board may designate in the manner provided by law. The registered agent of the Company in the State of Delaware shall be the initial registered agent named in the Certificate or such other Person or Persons as the Board may designate in the manner provided by law. The principal office of the Company shall be at 7 Empty Saddle Road, Rolling Hills Estates, California 90274-4124, or at such other place as the Board may designate, which need not be in the State of Delaware. The Company may have such other offices as the Board may designate.
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ARTICLE III
PURPOSES AND POWERS
3.1 Purposes of the Company. The Company is formed for the object and purpose of, and the nature of the business to be conducted and promoted by the Company is, engaging in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be formed under the Delaware Act and engaging in any and all activities necessary, convenient, desirable or incidental to the foregoing, which shall include but not be limited to the acquisition of the Project Company and indirectly the Project and the productive utilization of methane gas produced from the Project specifically and biomass generally; provided, however, so long as the Clean Energy Borrowing is outstanding, the sole object and purpose of, and the sole nature of the business to be conducted and promoted by the Company is the acquisition of the Project Company and, following merger of the Company into the Project Company, the productive utilization of methane gas produced from the Project specifically and biomass generally, and any and all activities necessary or incidental thereto.
3.2 Powers of the Company. The Company purpose set forth in Section 3.1 may be accomplished by taking any action that is permitted under the Delaware Act.
ARTICLE IV
MEMBERSHIP
4.1 Members. The name and address of each Member, and such Members Capital Contribution as of the date of this Agreement, are as set forth on Schedule A hereto. In the event of any change with respect to the information stated on Schedule A hereto pursuant to or in accordance with the provisions hereof, the Board shall promptly cause (a) Schedule A to be amended to reflect such change and (b) a copy of the revised Schedule A to be provided to each of the Members.
4.2 Additional Members. Additional Persons may be admitted to the Company as Members only in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including Article XIV, and if such admission involves a Transfer of a Member Interest, Article XIII. Any such admission shall be effective only after the new Member has executed and delivered to the Board a document including the new Members notice address and an agreement to be bound by this Agreement.
4.3 Member Interests. The Member Interests of the Company shall be issued in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. So long as the Clean Energy Borrowing is outstanding, Member Interests shall not be certificated without the written consent of PlainsCapital Bank.
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4.4 Withdrawal. No Member shall have the right to voluntarily withdraw from the Company as a Member except in accordance with Section 14.3.
4.5 Lack of Authority. No Member shall have the authority or power to act for or on behalf of the Company, to do any act that would be binding on the Company, or to incur any expenditures on behalf of the Company, except for a Member that is acting in the capacity of Manager in accordance with Article IX, or in the capacity of an officer pursuant to authorization by the Board in accordance with Section 9.7(b).
4.6 Voting Rights. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement (including Section 9.10) or as required by law, the Members shall have full voting rights and powers to vote on all matters submitted to the Company for vote, consent or approval, and each Member shall be entitled to one vote for each percentage interest in Profits to which such Member is entitled in accordance with this Agreement.
4.7 Membership Book and Members of Record. The Board shall cause to be maintained, among other records, a membership book containing records evidencing the Member Interests, the names and addresses of the holders of all issued Member Interests of the Company, the number of Member Interests held by each such holder, the date of issuance of such Member Interests, and whether or not such Member Interests originate from original issue or transfer. Names and addresses of Members as they appear on such book shall be the official list of Members of record of the Company for all purposes except as otherwise provided herein. The Company shall keep this record of Members at its registered office or principal place of business, or at the office of its transfer agent or registrar. The Company shall be entitled to treat the holder of record of any Member Interest as the owner thereof for all purposes, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, such Member Interest or any rights deriving from such Member Interest on the part of any other person, including a purchaser, assignee, or transferee, unless and until such other person becomes the holder of record of such Member Interest, regardless of whether the Company has either actual or constructive notice of the Member Interest of such other person.
4.8 Change of Name or Address. Each Member shall promptly notify the Board, by written notice sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, of any change in name or address of the Member from that as it appears upon the official list of Members of record of the Company. The Board shall cause to be entered such changes into all affected Company records, including the official list of Members of record.
ARTICLE V
CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS
5.1 Initial Capital Contributions. On or prior to the Closing Date, each of the Members shall have made a Capital Contribution (an Initial Capital Contribution) to the Company in exchange for its respective Member Interests as set forth on Schedule A (and in this connection all amounts deposited by or on behalf of Clean Energy in connection with the Purchase Agreement shall be treated as part of the Clean Energy Initial Capital Contribution). It
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is the intent of the Members that the contributions of property by each Member, cash by Clean Energy and cash and contractual rights by Cambrian McCommas Bluff, shall be a non-taxable event pursuant to Section 721 of the Code and that the interest issued to Cambrian McCommas Bluff be a profits interest within the meaning of Internal Revenue Service Revenue Procedures 93-27 and 2001-43. The Company and each of the Members (i) consents to the making and filing of a safe harbor election under Section 83(b) of the Code, (ii) agrees that the Member Interest issued to Cambrian McCommas Bluff is immediately vested, and (iii) agrees that neither the Company nor any Member shall take a deduction with respect to the issuance of the Member Interest to Cambrian McCommas Bluff.
5.2 Interest. No interest shall be paid by the Company on any Capital Contribution.
5.3 Return of Capital. No Member shall be entitled to have any Capital Contribution returned to it or to receive any distributions from the Company upon withdrawal or otherwise, except in accordance with the express provisions of this Agreement. No unrepaid Capital Contribution shall be deemed or considered to be a liability of the Company or any Member. No Member shall be required to contribute any cash or property to the Company to enable the Company to return any Members Capital Contribution.
5.4 Capital Accounts.
(a) An individual Capital Account shall be established and maintained for each Member. The Members acknowledge and agree that the opening Capital Account of Clean Energy shall be $18,400,000 and that the opening Capital Account of Cambrian McCommas Bluff shall be $1,000 (the amount of cash to be contributed by Cambrian McCommas Bluff). There shall be no addition to the Capital Account of Cambrian McCommas Bluff with respect to the release to be delivered to Camco or other contractual rights contributed to the Company or Project Company by Cambrian McCommas Bluff.
(b) The Capital Account for each Member shall be maintained in accordance with Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv) and the following provisions:
(i) to such Members Capital Account there shall be credited such Members Capital Contributions, such Members distributive share of Profits and items of income or gain specially allocated hereunder and the amount of any Company liabilities that are assumed by such Member or that are secured by any Company assets distributed to such Member;
(ii) to such Members Capital Account there shall be debited the amount of cash and the Gross Asset Value of any other property of the Company distributed to such Member pursuant to any provision of this Agreement, such Members distributive share of Losses and items of loss, expense and deduction specially allocated hereunder and the amount of any liabilities of such Member that are assumed by the Company or that are secured by any property contributed by such Member to the Company; and
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(iii) in determining the amount of any liability for purposes of this subsection (b), there shall be taken into account Section 752(c) of the Code and any other applicable provisions of the Code and the Treasury Regulations.
(c) In the event that all or a portion of any Member Interest in the Company is transferred in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the transferee shall succeed to the Capital Account of the transferor to the extent such Capital Account relates to the portion of the Member Interest so transferred.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, whenever it is necessary to determine the Capital Account of any Member, the Capital Account of the Member shall be determined after giving effect to all transactions concluded during the then current taxable period and prior to the time as of which such determination is made, and to all allocations of Profits, Losses, and items of income, gain, loss, and deduction and to all distributions theretofore made for such taxable period under Articles VI, VII and XV.
(e) A Member shall not be entitled to withdraw any part of its Capital Account or to receive any distributions from the Company except as specifically provided for in this Agreement, and, unless the Board shall approve, no Member shall be entitled to make any additional Capital Contributions to the Company other than as provided for herein.
(f) Loans by any Member to the Company shall not be considered to be Capital Contributions and shall not increase the Capital Account of such Member, and repayment of such loans shall not be deemed a distribution by the Company in respect of the Member Interest of such Member.
5.5 Letters of Credit. The Members acknowledge that the Project Company may be required to provide one or more letters of credit in connection with entering into long-term agreements for any one or more of the transportation or sale of processed gas. At the election of Clean Energy in its sole discretion, Clean Energy or one of its Affiliates may provide such letters of credit and, in that case, (i) the principal amounts of such letters of credit shall be treated as an interest-bearing advance under the Clean Energy Loan (and the Members acknowledge that the Project Company shall pay interest under the Clean Energy Loan at the rate and times provided for in the Clean Energy Loan documents on the outstanding amounts of the letters of credit), (ii) in addition to such payment of interest, the Company shall pay and reimburse the lenders under the Clean Energy Loan for all commitment fees and other costs and expenses incurred by the lenders under the Clean Energy Loan in connection with such letters of credit, and (iii) such other terms and conditions shall apply as the Board and the lenders under the Clean Energy Loan may determine in their discretion. It is the intent of the Members to cause substitute letters of credit to be issued to replace any letters of credit provided by Clean Energy or any of its Affiliates and to repay all amounts owed with respect to such letters of credit with proceeds from and in connection with the securing of long-term limited recourse project financing for the Company.
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5.6 Clean Energy Loan. The Clean Energy Loan shall be evidenced by one or more promissory notes that will bear interest at an annualized rate of twelve percent (12%), payable in cash quarterly, and contain customary terms and conditions for secured high-yield debt investments. The Clean Energy Loan shall mature and become due and payable as follows: 20% of the then aggregate initial principal (the Outstanding Amount) and all accrued and unpaid interest on the Clean Energy Loan shall be due and payable on the one-year anniversary of the Interim Debt, 20% of the then Outstanding Amount and all accrued and unpaid interest on the Clean Energy Loan shall be due and payable on the two-year anniversary, 20% of the then Outstanding Amount and all accrued and unpaid interest on the Clean Energy Loan shall be due and payable on the three year anniversary, 20% of the then Outstanding Amount and all accrued and unpaid interest on the Clean Energy Loan shall be due and payable on the four-year anniversary, and the remainder of the Clean Energy Loan shall be due and payable on its five-year anniversary. It is the Members intention that the Clean Energy Loan will be fully repaid, with interest but without prepayment penalty, upon the successful closing of a project finance loan for the Project Company. The Clean Energy Loan shall be secured by all assets of the Project Company and the Company. The terms and conditions of the Clean Energy Loan shall be governed solely by the provisions of the Clean Energy Loan Documents and, in the event of any inconsistency between this Agreement and the Clean Energy Loan Documents, the provisions of the Clean Energy Loan Documents shall control. Subject only to and in accordance with the provisions of the Clean Energy Loan Documents, the lenders under the Clean Energy Loan shall have all rights and remedies available to a creditor that holds no Member Interest and is not an Affiliate of or otherwise related to a Member and shall be entitled to exercise all such rights and remedies within their sole discretion without limitation, obligation or restriction as a result of the status of Clean Energy as a Member or the status as a Manager of any person appointed as a Manager by Clean Energy. Neither Clean Energy nor any of its Affiliates shall have any fiduciary or other duty with respect to the rights and remedies of the lenders under the Clean Energy Loan or the exercise of any such right or remedy, nor shall Clean Energy, as a Member or otherwise, or any Manager appointed by Clean Energy as a Manager or otherwise, have any duty to exercise or refrain from exercising any authority or power as a Member, Manager or otherwise on behalf of or in the interests of the Company or its Members as such in connection with or as a result of any right or remedy of the lenders under the Clean Energy Loan or the exercise of any such right or remedy (and Clean Energy in its capacities as a Member and otherwise and each Manager appointed by Clean Energy in his or her capacities as a Manager and otherwise shall be entitled to exercise or refrain from exercising any authority or power as a Member, Manager or otherwise as determined in their sole discretion with respect to any matter involving or relating to the Clean Energy Loan even if doing so is or may be in the interests of the lenders under the Clean Energy Loan and/or adverse to the interests of the Company or its Members).
5.7 Additional Financing. The Members acknowledge that the opportunity may exist to acquire additional equipment to repair and expand the gas processing capacity and landfill gas collection capacity of the Project. Clean Energy may, in its sole discretion (but shall not be required or have any obligation whatsoever to), make additional capital available to the Company to finance such acquisitions of additional equipment, the installation thereof and associated costs. Such financing may occur through separate loans that shall not be part of the Clean Energy Loan, but may or may not have terms similar to the Clean Energy Loan. If Clean
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Energy declines to make such capital available to the Company, the Company shall, subject to such approvals of the Managers and Members as may be required under this Agreement or otherwise, seek alternative methods of financing such acquisitions of additional equipment and expansions on such terms as may be agreed to by the Board, including long-term limited recourse project financing secured by the assets and contractual rights of the Project Company. The Members acknowledge that there shall be no requirement for Clean Energy nominees of the Board to recuse themselves from consideration of any such financing decisions to the extent they involve Clean Energy.
ARTICLE VI
ALLOCATIONS
6.1 Allocations of Profits and Losses. Subject to the other provision of this Article VI, Profits and Losses (and, to the extent necessary, special allocations of individual items of income (including gross income), gain, loss or deduction of the Company) for any fiscal year or any other period shall be allocated among the Members so that the Capital Account of each Member, after making such allocation, is, as nearly as possible, equal (or in proportion thereto, if the total amount to be allocated is insufficient) to the distributions that would be made to such Member if the Company were dissolved, its affairs wound up, and its assets other than money sold for cash equal to their respective Gross Asset Values, all Company liabilities were satisfied (limited with respect to each nonrecourse liability to the Gross Asset Value of the assets securing such liability), and the net assets of the Company were distributed to the Members in accordance with Section 7.2 immediately after making such allocation. For purposes of determining Capital Accounts and making allocations under this Section 6.1, (i) Capital Accounts shall first be reduced by any distributions made for the fiscal year or period, (b) each Members Capital Account balance shall be deemed to be increased by such Members share of partnership minimum gain (as that term is defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(d)(1)-(4)) and partner nonrecourse debt minimum gain (as that term is defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)), and (c) Capital Accounts shall first be adjusted for any special allocations pursuant to this Agreement for the fiscal year or period. If, following a Capital Transaction involving a sale or exchange of all or substantially all the assets of the Company and distributions required pursuant to Articles VII and XV would result in a Member having a negative Capital Account notwithstanding the foregoing and other provisions of this Article VI, then the amount so distributed to such Member shall (up to the amount that such Members Capital Account would become negative under such circumstances) be treated as a guaranteed payment under Section 707(c) or Section 736(a)(2) of the Code and any deduction available to the Company with respect to such guaranteed payment shall be allocated solely to the other Member.
6.2 Allocations Relating to Certain Claims. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all items of income, gain, deduction, loss and expense with respect to (i) any amount deposited or placed into escrow at closing in connection with the Purchase Agreement or any amount distributed to the Company or any Member out of such escrow or (ii) any claim of Buyer under Article VII or Article VIII of the Purchase Agreement shall be allocated to the Members in proportion to the amounts of their respective Initial Capital Contributions as set forth on Schedule A attached hereto.
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6.3 Special Allocation Rules.
(a) In the event Members are admitted to the Company pursuant to this Agreement on different dates, the Profits (or Losses) allocated to the Members for each Fiscal Year during which Members are so admitted shall be allocated among the Members in proportion to their pro rata right to Profits (or Losses) that each holds from time to time during such Fiscal Year in accordance with Section 706 of the Code, using any convention permitted by law and selected by the Board.
(b) For purposes of determining the Profits, Losses or any other items allocable to any period, Profits, Losses and any such other items shall be determined on a daily, monthly or other basis, as determined by the Board using any method that is permissible under Section 706 of the Code and the Treasury Regulations thereunder.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all types of Company income, gain, loss, deduction and any other allocations not otherwise provided for shall be divided among the Members in the same proportions as they share Profits and Losses for the Fiscal Year in question.
(d) The Members are aware of the income tax consequences of the allocations made by this Article VI and hereby agree to be bound by the provisions of this Article VI in reporting their shares of Company income and loss for income tax purposes.
(e) If at any time some or all of the assets of the Company are distributed in kind, Company Profits (or Losses) will be increased by the Profits (or Losses) that would have been realized had such assets been sold for their fair market value on the date of distribution, as determined by the Board of Managers in its sole discretion. Any such increase in Company Profits (or Losses) will be allocated to the Members in accordance with Article VI of this Agreement (including, as applicable, Section 6.6) and will increase (or decrease) their Capital Account balances accordingly prior to calculating any distributions under Articles VII and XV of this Agreement.
6.4 Nonrecourse Deductions and Chargebacks. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, all nonrecourse deductions (as defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(b)(1)) shall be allocated to the Members pro rata in proportion to the percentages set forth in Section 7.1(a) clause third or clause fourth, whichever then applies. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, in the event that there is a net decrease in Company Minimum Gain during a Fiscal Year, the Members shall be allocated items of income and gain in accordance with Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(f). The preceding sentence is intended to comply with the minimum gain chargeback requirement of Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(f) and shall be interpreted and applied in a manner consistent therewith.
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6.5 Member Nonrecourse Deductions and Chargebacks. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, any partner nonrecourse deductions (as defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(1)) shall be allocated to the Member who (in its capacity, directly or indirectly, as lender, guarantor, or otherwise) bears the economic risk of loss with respect to the loan to which such partner nonrecourse deductions are attributable in accordance with Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(i). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if during a Fiscal Year there is a net decrease in partner nonrecourse debt minimum gain, as that term is defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(2), that decrease shall be charged back among the Members in accordance with Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(4). The preceding sentence is intended to comply with the partner nonrecourse debt minimum gain chargeback requirement of Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(4) and shall be interpreted and applied in a manner consistent therewith.
6.6 Section 704(c) and Capital Account Revaluation Allocations. The Members agree that, to the fullest extent possible with respect to the allocation of depreciation and gain for federal income tax purposes, Section 704(c) of the Code and Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-3(b) shall apply with respect to non-cash property contributed to the Company by any Member. For purposes hereof, any allocation of income, loss, gain or any item thereof to a Member pursuant to Section 704(c) of the Code shall affect only the Members tax basis in the Members Company interest and shall not affect the Members Capital Account. In addition to the foregoing, if Company assets are reflected in the Capital Accounts of the Members at a book value that differs from the adjusted tax basis of the assets (e.g., because of a revaluation of the Members Capital Accounts under Treasury Regulations § 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f)), allocations of depreciation, amortization, income, gain or loss with respect to such property shall be made among the Members in a manner consistent with the principles of Section 704(c) of the Code, Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-3(b), and this subsection.
ARTICLE VII
DISTRIBUTIONS
7.1 Distributions Not from a Capital Transaction. Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 7.3 and except as otherwise provided in Section 7.5 or Article XV hereof, Operating Cash Flow, if any, shall be paid at least quarterly to the extent of, and in the following order of priority:
first, to the Members until each Member has received such Members Tax Distribution Amount;
second, to make any reserve deposits required by a lender or as determined by the Board; and thereafter either
third, 70% to Clean Energy and 30% to Cambrian McCommas Bluff prior to the exercise of the Option by Cambrian McCommas Bluff; or
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fourth, after the exercise of the Option by Cambrian McCommas Bluff, a percentage equal to (i) 70% less the percentage Member Interests purchased by Cambrian McCommas Bluff immediately prior to any distribution pursuant to its exercise of the Option to Clean Energy, and (ii) 30% plus the percentage Member Interests purchased by Cambrian McCommas Bluff immediately prior to any distribution pursuant to its exercise of the Option to Cambrian McCommas Bluff.
7.2 Distributions from a Capital Transaction. Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 7.3 and except as set forth in Section 7.5 or Article XV hereof, the proceeds resulting from the liquidation of the Company or the net proceeds resulting from any Capital Transaction, as the case may be, shall be distributed and applied in the following order of priority:
first, to the payment of all debts and liabilities of the Company (including amounts due pursuant to the Clean Energy Loan and all expenses of the Company incident to any sale or refinancing), but excluding other debts and liabilities of the Company to Members or any Affiliates;
second, to the setting up of any reserves which the Board deems reasonably necessary for contingent, unmatured or unforeseen liabilities or obligations of the Company;
third, to the repayment of any other unrepaid debts and liabilities (including unpaid fees) owed to the Members or any Affiliates by the Company;
fourth, if the Capital Return Date has not yet occurred, solely to Clean Energy until the Adjusted Capital Return is zero; and thereafter either
fifth, 70% to Clean Energy and 30% to Cambrian McCommas Bluff prior to the exercise of the Option by Cambrian McCommas Bluff; or
sixth, after the exercise of the Option by Cambrian McCommas Bluff, a percentage equal to (i) 70% less the percentage Member Interests purchased by Cambrian McCommas Bluff immediately prior to any distribution pursuant to its exercise of the Option to Clean Energy, and (ii) 30% plus the percentage Member Interests purchased by Cambrian McCommas Bluff immediately prior to any distribution pursuant to its exercise of the Option to Cambrian McCommas Bluff.
7.3 Limitations on Distributions. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this Agreement, (a) the Company shall not make a distribution to any Member in respect of such Members Member Interest if such distribution would violate the Delaware Act or other applicable law, (b) the Company shall not make any distribution to the extent prohibited by any financing agreement with any lender to the Company, and (c) no distribution shall be made to Cambrian McCommas Bluff at any time that the Clean Energy Loan is in default, including but not limited to any failure by the Project Company to make quarterly interest payments under the Clean Energy Loan when due.
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7.4 Withholding. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, to the extent that the Company is required pursuant to applicable federal, state, local or foreign law, either (i) to pay tax (including estimated tax) on a Members allocable share of Company net Profits or items of income or gain, whether or not distributed, or (ii) to withhold and pay over to any tax authority any portion of a distribution otherwise distributable to a Member, the Board of Managers, on behalf of the Company, may pay over such tax or such withheld amount to the relevant tax authority, and such amount shall be treated for all purposes hereof as a distribution to such Member at the time it is paid to the tax authority and shall reduce the amount of the next distribution(s) to which the Member would otherwise be entitled.
7.5 Distributions of Escrow Amounts or With Respect to Certain Claims. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all amounts received by the Company with respect to any claims of Buyer under Article VII or Article VIII of the Purchase Agreement, and any distribution, payment or return to the Company or a Member out of or with respect to amounts deposited or placed in escrow at closing in connection with the Purchase Agreement, shall be distributed to the Members in proportion to the amounts of their respective Initial Capital Contributions as set forth on Schedule A attached hereto and shall be treated as distributions to Members of proceeds from a Capital Transaction for purposes of this Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII
BOOKS AND RECORDS
8.1 Accounting Matters.
(a) The books and records of account of the Company shall, at the expense of the Company, (i) be kept, or caused to be kept, by the Company at the principal place of business of the Company, (ii) be kept in accordance with GAAP and on a basis consistent with the method of accounting used for federal income tax purposes, (iii) reflect all Company transactions, and (iv) be appropriate and adequate for conducting Company business. Each Member shall have the right, upon reasonable notice, to inspect and copy, during normal business hours, any of the records of the Company.
(b) The Management Company shall prepare (or cause to be prepared) annual audited financial statements for the Company (including an income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement) and reviewed quarterly financial statements for the Company (including income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements) as soon as possible after the end of each fiscal year and each fiscal quarter of the Company, as the case may be, and in each case by such date as is necessary, in the sole and absolute discretion of Clean Energy, for Clean Energy and its Affiliates to comply timely with their reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Unless otherwise agreed to by Clean Energy, in its sole and absolute discretion, the annual audited financial statements and reviewed quarterly financial statements of the Company shall be audited and reviewed by the same independent registered public accounting firm that audits of the annual financial statements of the parent company of Clean Energy. All annual and quarterly financial statements of the Company shall be delivered to all of
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the Members. In addition, if Clean Energy determines in its sole and absolute discretion that it is necessary for audited financial statements for the Project Company as of the Closing Date or any prior date to be prepared in order for Clean Energy and its Affiliates to comply timely with their reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), then the Management Company shall engage the same independent registered public accounting firm that audits of the annual financial statements of the parent company of Clean Energy to prepare and audit such financial statements of the Company.
(c) The Company shall elect to be taxed as a partnership for United States Federal tax purposes. Within ninety (90) days after the end of each calendar year, the Management Company shall prepare or cause to be prepared, file and furnish each Member with a copy of the Companys federal and state income tax return along with Schedule K-1 as well as such other information as may be necessary for each Member to prepare their individual federal and state income tax returns.
8.2 Budgets and Financial Reports. Not later than sixty (60) days prior to the commencement of each calendar year, the Management Company shall prepare (or cause to be prepared) and furnish to each Member an annual consolidated budget for the Company as well as a budget for the Project Company. The Budget shall, at a minimum, include a line item breakdown of expected energy production, gas volumes, revenues, operating costs and capital expenditures with appropriate supporting detail. The Management Company shall prepare and provide each Member with a monthly budget-to-actual report on the operations and cash flows of the Company and the Project Company and with such monthly (including a balance sheet, income statement, statement of equity, and statement of cash flows, all prepared in accordance with GAAP) and other financial and non-financial reports as Clean Energy may require in its discretion, including any financial reports or information that Clean Energy requires for compliance with its reporting obligations under the Exchange Act and/or an audit of the Company and the Project Company as of December 31st of each year to be completed by KPMG LLP and submitted to the Members by March 1st of the following year. The Company and the Project Company shall also implement any controls or procedures requested by Clean Energy that are necessary for Clean Energy (with such determination of necessity to be made by Clean Energy in its sole and absolute discretion) to comply with its obligations under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and related rules and regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act to establish and maintain a system of internal control over financial reporting.
8.3 Accounts. The Management Company shall establish one or more separate bank and investment accounts and arrangements for the Company, which shall be maintained in the Companys name with financial institutions and firms that the Management Company may determine. The Company may not commingle the Companys funds with the funds of any Member.
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ARTICLE IX
MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION
9.1 Management of the Company. The business and affairs of the Company shall be managed by and under the direction and control of and, when required hereunder, subject to the approval of, the Board of Managers (the Board of Managers or the Board). The Board of Managers shall appoint a Management Company to serve at the pleasure of the Board of Managers; provided, however, Cambrian Energy Management is hereby designated as the initial Management Company to serve in that capacity during the first twelve (12) months and month-to-month thereafter, subject to termination of such service upon resignation in accordance with Section 9.3 or removal in accordance with Section 9.4 and on the terms set forth in Section 9.7(c). The Management Company and any other Manager or any other Person acting at the express direction of the Board of Managers shall have the power to bind the Company. Unless otherwise provided for herein, any action taken by the Board of Managers shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Board of Managers.
9.2 Number of Board of Managers, Tenure; Qualifications and Appointment. The Company shall have three (3) Managers. Each Manager shall hold office until such Manager resigns pursuant to Section 9.3, is removed pursuant to Section 9.4 or upon such Managers death or disability. Clean Energy shall have the right to appoint two Managers. Until an event of default under the Clean Energy Loan to the Company, and after any event of default has been cured and there is no other default, Cambrian McCommas Bluff shall have the right to appoint one Manager. After an event of default under the Clean Energy Loan and until such time, if any, as any default under the Clean Energy Loan has been cured and there is no other default, Clean Energy shall have the right to appoint all three Managers and shall have the right to designate another Person to serve as the Management Company. Managers need not be residents of the State of Delaware or Members of the Company. The initial Managers appointed by Clean Energy are Mitchell W. Pratt and Harrison S. Clay, and the initial Manager appointed by Cambrian McCommas Bluff is Evan G. Williams.
9.3 Resignation. Any Manager of the Company, and the Management Company, may resign at any time by giving written notice to the Members of the Company. The resignation of any Manager or the Management Company shall take effect upon receipt of notice thereof or at such later time as shall be specified in such notice; and, unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. The resignation of a Manager or Person serving as the Management Company who is also a Member shall not affect such Managers or Persons rights as a Member.
9.4 Removal. A Manager may be removed with or without cause at any time by the Person(s) who have the power to appoint such Manager as described in Section 9.2 above. The removal of a Manager who is also a Member shall not affect the Managers rights as a Member and shall not constitute a withdrawal of such Member. The Management Company may be removed with or without cause at any time by the Board of Managers, effective upon the expiration of 30 days after written notice (except that removal for Cause, as hereinafter defined, may be effective immediately or at another date less than 30 days after notice of such removal); provided, however, in the case of any removal of Cambrian Energy Management
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during the first twelve (12) months following the date of closing under the Purchase Agreement (other than removal for Cause as hereinafter defined), Cambrian Energy Management shall continue to be entitled to the Management Compensation in accordance with Section 9.7(c) until the end of such twelve (12) month period (or, if later, 30 days after written notice of such removal). For this purpose, Cause shall mean (i) the death or disability of Evan Williams or cessation of his service for any reason as the person, together with the persons identified in Section 13.6(d), controlling Cambrian Energy Management and its service as the Management Company hereunder; (ii) the occurrence of a default under the Clean Energy Loan (and, if such default is permitted to be cured under the Clean Energy Loan Documents, expiration of the applicable cure period without cure of such default); (iii) a failure of Cambrian Energy Management to follow a direction given by the Board of Managers, (iv) a material breach of a material covenant of Cambrian McCommas Bluff or Cambrian Energy Management under this Agreement that remains uncured after written notice thereof for a period of thirty (30) days; or (v) occurrence of any of the following with respect to Evan Williams or any controlling person, manager or executive officer of Cambrian McCommas Bluff or Cambrian Energy Management: (A) such Person shall have engaged in self-dealing detrimental to the Company or the Project or committed an act of fraud, embezzlement, misappropriation or breach of fiduciary duty, including, but not limited to, the offer, payment, solicitation or acceptance of any unlawful bribe or kickback with respect to the Company or the Project; (B) such Person shall have been convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction of, or pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to, any felony or any crime involving moral turpitude; (C) such Person shall have been chronically absent from performance of duties relating to the Company or the Project and shall have failed, within ten (10) days after explicit written notice from the Board to Cambrian Energy Management to devote the requisite time and efforts to the performance of such duties or to have been replaced by Cambrian Energy Management with another person who is devoting the requisite time and efforts, or (D) such Person shall have engaged in the unlawful use (including being under the influence) or possession of illegal drugs or shall have possessed illegal, unpermitted or unregistered weapons.
9.5 Vacancies. Any vacancy occurring for any reason in the number of Managers of the Company shall be filled by the appointment of new Managers by the Person(s) entitled to appoint Managers for such vacant seats as described in Section 9.2 above. Any vacancy in the role of Management Company shall be filled by the Board of Managers.
9.6 Prohibited Board Actions. The Board of Managers may not, without the consent of each of the Members (i) do any act in contravention of this Agreement; (ii) do any act which would make it impossible to carry on the business of the Company; (iii) possess or use Company property for any purpose other than the purposes of the Company provided herein; or (iv) amend or otherwise modify this Agreement, or permit the waiver of any provision thereof (and any such amendment, modification, or waiver effected without such approval shall be void) unless in accordance with Section 9.14 hereof.
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9.7 Day-to-Day Operations; Management Compensation and Expenses.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 9.10 and all delegations made pursuant to this Agreement, and subject in all cases to the ultimate direction and control of the Board and the power and authority of the Board of Managers to direct the Management Company to take or omit taking an action, the day-to-day operations of the Company shall be managed by the Management Company. Subject to approval by the Board, the duties of the Management Company may be delegated from time-to-time; and, in the case of any such delegation, the Management Company shall be solely responsible for all compensation and other obligations or payments required to be made to such delegate of the Management Company.
(b) The Board may from time to time delegate to the officers of the Company such authority and duties as the Board may deem advisable. Any such delegation may be revoked at any time by the Board in its sole discretion.
(c) In consideration of performance by the Management Company of management duties with respect to the Company, including (subject to the provisions of Section 9.10 and other provisions of this Agreement) the oversight of the operations and maintenance contractor, the procurement of major services and materials, the administration of material contracts, maintaining books and records, the preparation of tax returns, the oversight of the preparation of quarterly financial statements and an annual audit of the Company, and similar duties, the Management Company shall be paid a fee of $20,833.33 per month, payable in advance, for each full calendar month of service as the Management Company (which dollar amount shall be adjusted no more than once annually at the end of each year following the date of closing under the Purchase Agreement in proportion to any change during the prior year in the Consumer Price Index All Items, provided that no increase greater than four percent (4%) of the amount of such fee in effect immediately before such adjustment shall be made) (as so adjusted from time to time, the Management Compensation). Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 9.7(c), no Management Compensation shall be payable with respect to any period during which a default exists under the Clean Energy Loan.
(d) In addition to the Management Compensation, but subject to the approval required pursuant to Section 9.10(y), the Management Company, if applicable, shall receive the direct payment or reimbursement, as applicable, of documented travel expenses, including airline, hotel, meals, car rental, and similar expenses, directly related to such management (provided that the aggregate travel expenses paid or reimbursed for or to the Management Company and its Affiliates shall not exceed in the aggregate $20,000 for any twelve-month period, such $20,000 cap to be adjusted no more than once annually at the end of each year following the date of Closing under the Purchase Agreement in proportion to any change during the prior year in the Consumer Price Index All Items, provided further that no increase greater than four percent (4%) of the amount of maximum reimbursement in effect immediately before such adjustment shall be made).
9.8 No Management by Members. Except as otherwise provided herein, no Member will take part in the day-to-day management, or the operation or control, of the business and affairs of the Company. Except and only to the extent expressly provided for in this Agreement or as delegated by the Board of Managers, no Person other than the Management Company or the Board of Managers will be an agent of the Company or have any right, power or authority to transact any business in the name of the Company or to act for or on behalf of or to bind the Company.
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9.9 Reliance by Third Parties. Any Person dealing with the Company, the Management Company or the Board of Managers may rely upon a certificate signed by a majority of the Board or by the President, Treasurer or Secretary as to:
(a) the identity of the members of the Board of Managers, the Management Company, any officer of the Company or any Member;
(b) the existence or non-existence of any fact or facts which constitute a condition precedent to acts by the Management Company, the Board of Managers or any officer of the Company or in any other manner germane to the affairs of the Company;
(c) the Persons who are authorized to execute and deliver any agreement or document on behalf of the Company, including the Management Company, when so authorized; or
(d) any act or failure to act by the Company, or as to any other matter whatsoever involving the Company.
9.10 Super Majority Events. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided in this Agreement, the Company may engage in a Super Majority Event only with the approval of a majority of the Managers, in addition to any other vote or consent required herein or by law. Each of the following shall be deemed to be a Super Majority Event:
(a) Other than in the normal course of business, any grant of a security interest on behalf of the Company or Project Company in any of the Companys or Project Companys assets or properties other than with respect to the Clean Energy Loan;
(b) Other than in the normal course of business, the incurrence of any indebtedness for borrowed money other than the Clean Energy Loan, any prepayment of any indebtedness for borrowed money other than the Clean Energy Loan, or any guarantee by the Company or the Project Company of the obligations of another Person;
(c) Any amendment, alteration, or repeal of any provision of this Agreement or any other constitutive documents of the Company;
(d) Any increase or decrease in the authorized or designated number of Member Interests, or any admission of new Members or determination of the Capital Contribution required from, or the number or type of Member Interests to be issued to, such new Members;
(e) Any creation of or sale or issuance of additional Member Interests or rights to acquire Membership Interests for the purpose of raising additional capital or for any other purpose, other than a Permitted Transfer;
(f) Other than the termination of any such agreements which shall be determined by the Board of Managers, any transaction with any Affiliate of the Company or Member;
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(g) Any act in contravention of or not consistent with this Agreement or of or with any other governing document of the Company or a Project Company, or of the Delaware Act;
(h) The Company engaging in any business other than described herein or otherwise necessary in connection with the operation of the Project Company or the Project;
(i) Possession of property of the Company by any Member;
(j) Commingling of Company funds with any Members own funds;
(k) Any loan from the Company to any Member or Affiliate of a Member;
(l) The sale or refinancing of the Project, the Project Company or the Company, any material asset of the Project Company or the Company, or the merger, consolidation or conversion of the Project Company or Company with or into any partnership, corporation, limited liability company, trust or other entity (other than the merger of the Company into the Project Company following closing under the Purchase Agreement as contemplated by this Agreement);
(m) Voluntary liquidation or dissolution of the Company, except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement;
(n) (1) File any voluntary petition in bankruptcy on behalf of the Company or a Project Company, (2) consent to the filing of any involuntary petition in bankruptcy against the Company or a Project Company, (3) file any petition seeking, or consenting to, reorganization or relief under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy or insolvency with respect to the Company or a Project Company, (4) consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or a Project Company or a substantial part of its property, (5) make any assignment for the benefit of creditors of the Company or a Project Company, (6) admit in writing the inability of the Company or a Project Company to pay its debts generally as they come due, and (7) take any action on behalf of the Company or a Project Company in furtherance of any such action;
(o) A change in the amount or character of a Members capital contribution;
(p) Instituting, settling or otherwise compromising any legal action or proceeding on behalf of the Company or the Project Company;
(q) Approval of the Annual Budget or any amendment thereof, except for such required capital repairs and overhauls as may be approved by the Board of Managers, or approval of any financial statements for the Project Company or the Company;
(r) Entry into any material contract by the Project Company or the Company, including any lease of real property or purchase of capital equipment;
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(s) Payment in the aggregate of any compensation to employees and consultants to DCE or the Company, other than Advisor Expense (Compensation Expense) that is not included in the annual budget in projected Compensation Expense and that would result in total Compensation Expense that exceeds the approved annual budget for Compensation Expense by more than 10% of the projected amount;
(t) The retention, or agreement to compensate any professional advisors to the Company or the Project Company (including any agreement to compensation terms) that is not included in the annual budget for Advisor Expense and that would result in total expenditures for Advisor Expense that exceed the approved annual budget by more than 10% of the projected amount;
(u) Except as provided in Article IX, any change in the Management Company;
(v) Making any income tax election or choice of methods for reporting income or loss for income tax purposes or any other material decision for any Tax purpose;
(w) Payment of any distribution, dividend or other payment in respect of the membership interests in the Project Company or the Company that are inconsistent with this Agreement;
(x) Any material expenditure (i.e., individual expenditure in excess of $15,000 or any one or more expenditures that would cause total expenditures to exceed the projected expenses in the approved annual budget by more than 10%) of the Project Company or the Company;
(y) Payment or reimbursement of travel expenses of the Management Company and/or its Affiliates that exceed in the aggregate $20,000 for any calendar year (as such $20,000 amount may be adjusted pursuant to Section 9.7(c) hereof); or
(z) Termination or failure to enforce rights under a major Project agreement, such as a gas sale or gas transportation agreement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Agreement or any other provision of this Agreement, for so long as the Clean Energy Borrowing is outstanding, except with the written consent of PlainsCapital Bank, (i) no action described in subsection (a), (h), (k), (l), or (m) of this Section 9.10 shall be taken by the Company, (ii) no action described in Section 9.14 shall be taken by the Members, and (iii) the Company shall not amend, terminate, encumber, subordinate, assign or voluntarily surrender the City of Dallas Lease.
9.11 Meetings of the Board of Managers.
(i) Meetings of the Board of Managers may be called at any time by any Manager. Notice of any meeting, including the date, time and location, shall be given to all Managers not less than three (3) business days prior to the date of such meeting or such lesser amount of time as is practicable to give all Managers reasonable notice of the meeting.
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(ii) Except as otherwise provided by law, a majority of Managers shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the Board.
(iii) Unless otherwise provided by law or by this Agreement (including, without limitation under Section 9.10), all questions shall be decided with the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Managers.
(iv) Any action required to or which may be taken at a meeting of the Board of Managers may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent, or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by Managers having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all Managers entitled to vote thereon were present and voted.
(v) Any Manager or Managers may participate in a meeting of the Board of Managers by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other at the same time, and participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at a meeting.
9.12 Reimbursements. Within 15 days of the receipt of a request therefor, the Company shall reimburse the Members, officers of the Company and the members of the Board of Managers (but not the Management Company or its Affiliates, it being understood that its rights payments and reimbursements are set forth exclusively in Section 9.7 hereof), for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by them on behalf of the Company. Any policy adopted by the Board of Managers as to which expenses may be reimbursed to the officers of the Company and the members of the Board of Managers, and the amount of such expenses, shall be conclusive. Such reimbursement shall be treated as an expense of the Company and shall not be deemed to constitute a distribution to any Member in respect of its Member Interest.
9.13 Transactions with Affiliates. Subject to approval in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.10 hereof, the Company is specifically authorized to engage in transactions from time to time with any Member, any Affiliate of any Member, any officer of the Company, or any Manager or member of the Board of Managers. No contract or transaction between the Company and one or more Members, Affiliates of Members, officers of the Company, Managers or members of the Board of Managers, or between the Company and any Person in which one or more of the Members, Affiliates of Members, officers of the Company, Managers or members of the Board of Managers are managers, officers, directors, or have a financial interest, shall be void solely for this reason.
9.14 Amendments. Subject to the last paragraph of Section 9.10 so long as it is applicable, any amendments to this Agreement shall be adopted and be effective as an amendment hereto only if approved in writing by Members holding at least eighty percent (80%)
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of the Member Interests then outstanding; provided, however, that the revision of Schedule A hereto as necessary to accurately reflect the names, addresses and number and type of Member Interests owned by each Member (including the addition of any new Member or Withdrawal of any Member pursuant to the terms of this Agreement) and the exercise of the Option, as each may change from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, may be made by the Board of Managers acting alone and shall not require the approval of any Member.
9.15 Meetings of the Members.
(i) Meetings of the Members may be called at any time by the Primary Manager or the Board of Managers. Notice of any meeting, including the date, time and location, shall be given to all Members not less than five (5) days nor more than thirty (30) days prior to the date of such meeting. Each Member may authorize any Person to act for it by proxy on all matters in which a Member is entitled to participate, including waiving notice of any meeting, or voting or participating at a meeting. Every proxy must be signed by the Member or its attorney-in-fact.
(ii) Unless otherwise provided by law or by this Agreement, Members who hold a majority of the Member Interests then outstanding shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the Members.
(iii) Unless otherwise provided by law or by this Agreement, all questions shall be decided by an affirmative vote of the Members who hold a majority of the Member Interests (determined percentage interest in Profits (and Losses) then outstanding present in person at the meeting and entitled to vote on the question.
(iv) Any action required to or which may be taken at a meeting of Members may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent, or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by Members having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all Members entitled to vote thereon were present and voted.
(v) Any Members may participate in a meeting of the Members by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other at the same time, and participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at a meeting.
ARTICLE X
INDEMNIFICATION
10.1 Liability.
(a) Except as otherwise provided by the Delaware Act, the debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company, whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise, shall be solely the debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company, and no Covered Person shall be obligated personally for any such debt, obligation or liability of the Company solely by reason of being a Covered Person.
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(b) No Member shall have liability for the debts and obligations of the Company except as required by law.
10.2 Exculpation.
(a) No Covered Person shall be liable to the Company or any other Covered Person for any loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission performed or omitted by such Covered Person in good faith on behalf of the Company and in a manner reasonably believed to be within the scope of authority conferred on such Covered Person by this Agreement, except that a Covered Person shall be liable for any such loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of such Covered Persons gross negligence, willful misconduct or material violation of this Agreement.
(b) A Covered Person shall be fully protected in relying in good faith upon the records of the Company and upon such information, opinions, reports or statements presented to the Company by any Person as to matters the Covered Person reasonably believes are within such other Persons professional or expert competence and who has been selected with reasonable care by or on behalf of the Company, including information, opinions, reports or statements as to the value and amount of the assets, liabilities, Profits, Losses, or any other facts pertinent to the existence and amount of assets from which distributions to Members might properly be paid.
10.3 Duties and Liabilities of Covered Persons. To the extent that, at law or in equity, a Covered Person has duties (including fiduciary duties) and liabilities relating thereto to the Company or to any other Covered Person, a Covered Person acting under this Agreement shall not be liable to the Company or to any other Covered Person for its good faith reliance on the provisions of this Agreement.
10.4 Indemnification. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, a Covered Person shall be entitled to indemnification from the Company for any loss, damage or claim incurred by such Covered Person by reason of any act or omission performed or omitted by such Covered Person in good faith on behalf of the Company and in a manner reasonably believed to be within the scope of authority conferred on such Covered Person by this Agreement, except that no Covered Person shall be entitled to be indemnified in respect of any loss, damage or claim incurred by such Covered Person by reason of such Covered Persons gross negligence or willful misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions or material violation of this Agreement; provided, however, that any indemnity under this Section 10.4 shall be provided out of and to the extent of Company assets only, and no Covered Person shall have any personal liability on account thereof.
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10.5 Expenses. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, expenses (including reasonable legal fees) incurred by a Covered Person in defending any claim, demand, action, suit or proceeding shall, from time to time (within thirty (30) days following receipt of an invoice therefor), be advanced by the Company prior to the final disposition of such claim, demand, action, suit or proceeding upon receipt by the Company of an undertaking by or on behalf of the Covered Person to repay such amount if it shall be determined that the Covered Person is not entitled to be indemnified as authorized in Section 10.4 hereof.
10.6 Insurance. The Company may purchase and maintain insurance, to the extent and in such amounts as the Board of Managers shall deem reasonable, on behalf of Covered Persons and such other Persons as the Board of Managers shall determine, against any liability that may be asserted against or expenses that may be incurred by any such Person in connection with the activities of the Company or such indemnities, regardless of whether the Company would have the power to indemnify such Person against such liability under the provisions of this Agreement. The Board of Managers and the Company may enter into indemnity contracts with Covered Persons and adopt written procedures pursuant to which arrangements are made for the advancement of expenses and the funding of obligations under Section 10.5 hereof and containing such other procedures regarding indemnification as are appropriate.
ARTICLE XI
REMEDIES
11.1 Equitable Remedies. The Members acknowledge and agree that in the event of a breach or threatened breach of this Agreement by any Member, the remedy at law in favor of the other Members will be inadequate and each such other Member, in addition to all other remedies which may be available to it, and notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, shall have the right to specific performance in the event of any breach of the Agreement or to injunctive relief in the event of any threatened breach of the Agreement by any other Member. The reasonable costs and expenses, including attorneys fees, of the prevailing party in any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be promptly paid by the non-prevailing party or parties.
ARTICLE XII
TAX MATTERS
12.1 Tax Matters Member.
(a) The Members shall, if necessary for the partnership-level determination rules of Code Sections 6221 through 6234 to apply to the Company, cause the Company to make and keep in effect an election under Code Section 6231(a)(1)(B)(ii), which election shall be effective beginning with the first taxable year of the Company, to have the provisions of Sections 6221 through 6234 of the Code apply to the Company and its Members. A Member designated by the Board shall serve as the tax matters partner of the Company within the meaning of Section 6231(a)(7) of the Code (such Member, acting in such capacity, the Tax Matters Member), and such Member shall serve as Tax Matters Member of the Company until its successor is duly designated by the Board. The Tax Matters Member shall not take any action
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that may be taken by a tax matters partner under Code Section 6221 through 6234 unless (i) it has first given the other Members written notice of the contemplated action at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the applicable due date of such action and (ii) it has received the written consent of holders of a majority of the Member Interests to such contemplated action. Without limiting the foregoing, the Tax Matters Member shall not enter into any extension of the period of limitations for making assessments on behalf of the Members without first obtaining the written consent of holders of a majority of the Member Interests. The Tax Matters Member shall not bind any Member to a settlement agreement without first obtaining the written consent of such Member. The Tax Matters Member shall file or cause to be filed the Companys income tax returns on a timely basis.
(b) The Tax Matters Member shall, within ten (10) days of the receipt of any notice from the Internal Revenue Service in any administrative proceeding at the Company level relating to the determination of any Company item of income, gain, loss, deduction or credit, mail a copy of such notice to each Member. The Tax Matters Member shall take such action as may be necessary to cause each other Member to become a notice partner within the meaning of Section 6231(a)(8) of the Code. The Tax Matters Member shall promptly (and in any event within ten (10) days) forward to each other Member copies of all significant written communications it may receive in such capacity.
(c) The Tax Matters Member shall be indemnified by the Company with respect to any action taken by him in its capacity as Tax Matters Member by applying, mutatis mutandis, the provisions of Article X.
12.2 Section 754 Election, Etc. The Board of Managers, upon the written request of any Member, shall direct the Tax Matters Member to make (and the Tax Matters Member shall make), on behalf of the Company, an election under §754 of the Code, so as to adjust the basis of Company property in the case of a distribution of property within the meaning of §734 of the Code, and in the case of a transfer of a Company interest within the meaning of §743 of the Code. No election made by the Company under §754 shall be revoked without the consent of holders of a majority of the Member Interests outstanding. Each Member shall, upon request of the Tax Matters Member, supply the information necessary to give effect to such election. Subject to Section 12.3, the Tax Matters Member shall make all other elections in respect of Taxes solely as directed by the Board in accordance with Section 9.10(v).
12.3 Taxation of Company. The Company shall be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal and state income tax purposes, and no Member or Manager shall take any action to cause the Company not to be so treated without the approval of a majority of the Managers and the prior written consent of the holders of a majority of the Member Interests; provided, however, except where the Company ceases to be so treated as a partnership in connection with an initial public offering of equity interests in the Company or its successor, the Company shall make arrangements as the Board of Managers in its reasonable discretion determines to be necessary such that the cessation of such treatment of the Company does not materially adversely affect (as determined on an after-income tax basis taking into account all relevant factors) any Member that did not consent to such cessation of such treatment.
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ARTICLE XIII
TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
13.1 Option to Cambrian McCommas Bluff to Purchase Member Interests from Clean Energy.
a. Option. Clean Energy hereby grants to Cambrian McCommas Bluff an exclusive, non-assignable option (the Option) to purchase Member Interests owned by Clean Energy up to and including a percentage ownership in the Profits, Losses and distributions of the Company equal to nineteen percent (19%). The purchase price upon exercise of the Option for each Member Interest entitled to a one percent (1%) ownership in the Profits, Losses and distributions of the Company shall be Three Hundred Sixty-Eight Thousand Dollars ($368,000) for an aggregate purchase price if all of such nineteen percent (19%) Member Interests are purchased of Six Million Nine Hundred Ninety-Two Thousand Dollars ($6,992,000). The Option may be exercised in whole or in part (but only in 1% Member Interest increments) at any time or from time-to-time during the ten-year period commencing on the last to occur of the Closing Date or the date on which the Clean Energy Loan has been paid in full in cash or by wire transfer of immediately available funds. The Option may be exercised by the giving of written notice by Cambrian McCommas Bluff to Clean Energy in which the percentage Member Interests to be purchased by Cambrian McCommas Bluff shall be specified.
b. Payment. Payment for such Member Interests shall be paid in full in cash or by wire transfer of immediately available funds by Cambrian McCommas Bluff to Clean Energy on or before thirty (30) days following the giving of each written exercise of the Option by Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff. Schedule A to this Agreement shall be amended to reflect the current Member Interests in the Company following each purchase of Member Interests by Cambrian McCommas Bluff from Clean Energy pursuant to an exercise of the Option.
13.2 Transfers by Members.
a. General. Except as otherwise expressly provided or permitted by this Agreement (including the transfer of Member Interests pursuant to the Option), no Member shall assign, transfer, sell, exchange, give by gift, hypothecate, mortgage, encumber, grant a proxy that confer discretionary authority upon the proxy, or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of the Member Interest of the Member or suffer the same to be encumbered, charged or taken involuntarily (collectively, a Disposition). Any Disposition by a Member of any portion of the Member Interest of the Member must involve a transfer of both the financial rights and the governance rights relating to the transferred Member Interest, unless such transfer is approved by the Board of Managers. Any Disposition which is not made pursuant to and in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall be void and of no effect and shall vest no right, title or interest in the transferee.
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b. Permitted Transfers. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, subject to the satisfaction of the additional conditions specified in this subsection, the following Dispositions are hereby specifically permitted, will not require the advance written consent of the Members or the Board of Managers, and will not trigger or create purchase options or other options or obligations under this Agreement provided such Disposition is not a Prohibited Transfer (Permitted Transfers):
i. Transfers of part or all of a Member Interest by a Member (A) to or from any entity all the equity securities and voting securities of which are directly or indirectly owned and controlled by such Member or a Person who, as of the date of this Agreement, owns and controls more than fifty percent (50%) of all the equity securities and voting securities of such Member or (B) to PlainsCapital Bank pursuant to foreclosure under any pledge in connection with the Clean Energy Borrowing (a Person described in the immediately preceding subclause (A) or (B), a Permitted Transferee) and between or among their respective Permitted Transferees are hereby specifically permitted, will not require the advance written consent of the Members or the Board of Managers and will not trigger or create any purchase options or other options or obligations under this Agreement.
In each such situation, the Disposition will only be permitted if, prior to completion of such Disposition, the following shall be provided to the Board of Managers:
(1) A written agreement of the transferee, in form and substance satisfactory to the Board of Managers, to be bound by this Agreement, which shall include an agreement by the transferee to execute any and all other documents that the Board of Managers may deem necessary or appropriate to effect and evidence such transfer and the agreements indicated above.
(2) Unless waived in writing by the Company, an opinion of counsel, satisfactory in form and substance to the Board of Managers, that the Permitted Transfer will not terminate the Company or impair its ability to be taxed as a partnership, and that the transfer constitutes an exempt transaction and does not require registration under applicable securities laws.
(3) As it relates to pledges of a Member Interest by a Member, the above requirements (1) and (2) shall be deemed satisfied (i) with respect to any foreclosure under a pledge to PlainsCapital Bank in connection with the Clean Energy Borrowing and PlainsCapital Bank shall be deemed to have agreed to be bound by this Agreement and (ii) in the case of any other pledge, to the extent that the pledgee commits to comply with the above requirements in the event that the pledgee shall ever foreclose on the pledged Member Interest.
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ii. A transfer by Clean Energy of its Member Interest to Cambrian McCommas Bluff from time-to-time pursuant to an exercise of the Option or otherwise pursuant to this Article XIII.
iii. Any other transfer by a Member of its Member Interest that has been approved in writing by the other Member.
c. Voluntary Transfers. Except for Permitted Transfers, a Member may not assign or transfer all or any portion of the Member Interest of the Member except in accordance with the following:
i. Notice Required. A Member proposing to transfer all or a portion of the Member Interest of the Member (the Transferring Member) shall be required to provide written notice to all other Members and the Board of Managers of the Company. The written notice (the Transfer Notice) shall specify the Member Interest proposed to be transferred (the Transfer Interest), the name and address of the proposed transferee, the price and payment terms, and any other terms and conditions of the transfer, together with a representation, covenant and warranty that the proposed transferees offer to purchase the Transfer Interest is genuine.
ii. Right of First Refusal. Delivery of the Transfer Notice to the Members shall create an option in favor of all Members other than the Transferring Member (the Remaining Members) to acquire all, but not less than all, of the Transfer Interest upon the terms set forth in the Transfer Notice as follows:
iii. Option Terms and Exercise. Terms of this option shall be the same as those specified in the Transfer Notice. The Remaining Members shall have the option rights to purchase the Transfer Interest. Unless otherwise agreed among the Remaining Members, each Remaining Member may purchase that percentage of the Transfer Interest which bears the same ratio as the Member Interests of such Remaining Member bears to the Member Interests of all Remaining Members. If a Remaining Member desires to exercise its option to purchase the Transfer Interest, it will give written notice of exercise of the option to the Company, within thirty (30) days (fifteen (15) days in the case of a notice given by PlainsCapital Bank with respect to a Transfer Interest acquired by foreclosure of a pledge in connection with the Clean Energy Borrowing) after receipt of the Transfer Notice. In the event that a Remaining Member does not purchase the full amount of the Transfer Interest that such Remaining Member is entitled to purchase, the other Remaining Members may purchase the excess on a pro rata basis, and the thirty (30) day period or fifteen (15) day period applicable as specified above shall be extended as necessary to accommodate this process, but in no event shall it be extended beyond fifteen (15) days after the expiration of the thirty (30) day period or fifteen (15) day period applicable as specified above.
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iv. Failure to Exercise Option. Absent exercise of the option by all or a portion of the Remaining Members with respect to the entire Transfer Interest, any partial acceptance shall be invalid and, upon expiration of the option period provided to the Remaining Members above, the Transferring Member may then transfer the Transfer Interest as proposed, provided (a) such transfer is completed within thirty (30) days thereafter, (b) such transfer does not occur on terms more favorable to the transferee than the terms upon which the Transfer Interest was offered to the Remaining Members, and (c) prior to completion of such transfer, the following shall be provided to the Board of Managers:
(1) A written agreement of the proposed transferee, in form and substance satisfactory to the Board of Managers, to be bound by this Agreement and all other agreements applicable to the Members, which shall include an agreement by the proposed transferee to execute any and all other documents that the Board of Managers may deem necessary or appropriate to effect and evidence such transfer and to confirm that the proposed transferee and the Transfer Interest are subject to and bound by this Agreement. If the proposed transferee does not provide such a written agreement, the proposed transferee shall retain the financial rights which relate to the Transfer Interest, but shall be deemed to have forfeited all governance rights which relate to the Transfer Interest.
(2) An opinion of counsel, satisfactory in form and substance to the Board of Managers, that the transfer will not terminate the Company or impair its ability to be taxed as a partnership and that the transfer constitutes an exempt transaction and does not require registration under applicable securities laws.
d. Involuntary Transfers.
i. General. In the event of any involuntary sale or any other involuntary Disposition whatsoever of part or all of the Member Interest of any Member other than as permitted by this Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Involuntary Transfer; it being understood, however, that any Transfer to PlainsCapital Bank pursuant to foreclosure under a pledge in connection with the Clean Energy Borrowing shall not be considered an Involuntary Transfer), the Member whose Member Interest is subject to such Involuntary Transfer shall be required to send written notice to the Board of Managers and all Members describing in reasonable detail such Involuntary Transfer, including the identity of the involuntary transferee (the Involuntary Transferee) and the circumstances of the Involuntary Transfer (for example, foreclosure of pledge, divorce decree, etc.).
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ii. Purchase Option. Upon the occurrence of an Involuntary Transfer, the Remaining Members shall have the option, exercisable by written notice to the Member undergoing the Involuntary Transfer (hereinafter referred to as the Involuntary Transferor) or to its successor or legal representative, as appropriate, to purchase all or any portion of the Member Interest of the Involuntary Transferor which is subject to the Involuntary Transfer (the Involuntary Transfer Interest). The purchase price and payments terms to be paid to the Involuntary Transferor shall be as set forth in subsections e and f hereof; provided however, that for purposes of establishing the purchase price to be paid for the Transfer Interest, the following shall apply:
(1) Immediately upon occurrence of the Involuntary Transfer, the parties shall commence the process for determining the purchase price for the Involuntary Transfer Interest in accordance with Section 13.2.e;
(2) The selling party under Section 13.2.e shall be the Involuntary Transferee, and the purchasing party shall be the Remaining Members; and
(3) Decisions to be made by the purchasing party shall be as decided by those Remaining Members representing a majority of the Member Interests held by all Remaining Members.
iii. Exercise and Allocation of Option Among Members. The Remaining Members shall have until ninety (90) days (in the aggregate) after determination of the purchase price within which to exercise all or any portion of this option, it being expressly understood that less than all of the Involuntary Transfer Interest may be purchased. Any interest acquired under this option shall be acquired by the Remaining Members pro rata based on their Member Interest Percentages immediately prior to the exercise of the option. Exercise of the option shall be made by written notice delivered to the Board of Managers and the Involuntary Transferor.
iv. Failure to Exercise Option. Upon expiration of the option period provided to the Remaining Members above, an Involuntary Transfer of that portion of the Involuntary Transfer Interest not elected to be purchased by the Remaining Members will occur, and such interest shall be transferred in accordance with the provisions set forth in the Delaware Act. The Involuntary Transferee shall be obligated to provide the following to the Board of Managers:
(1) A written agreement of the Involuntary Transferee, in form and substance satisfactory to the Board of Managers, to be bound by this Agreement and all other agreements applicable to the Members, which shall include an agreement by the Involuntary Transferee to execute any and all other documents that the Board of Managers may deem necessary or appropriate in order to effect and evidence such transfer and to confirm that the Involuntary Transferee and the Involuntary Transfer Interest are subject to and
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bound by this Agreement. If the Involuntary Transferee does not provide such a written agreement, the Involuntary Transferee shall retain the financial rights which relate to the Involuntary Transfer Interest, but shall be deemed to have forfeited all governance rights which relate to the Involuntary Transfer Interest.
(2) An opinion of counsel, satisfactory in form and substance to the Board of Managers, that the Involuntary Transfer will not terminate the Company or impair its ability to be taxed as a partnership and that the Involuntary Transfer constitutes and exempt transaction that does not require registration under applicable securities laws.
e. Purchase Price for Involuntary Transfer Interest. In the case of an Involuntary Transfer, the purchase price shall be equal to the fair market of the Member Interest to be sold, determined in accordance with the following:
i. Mutual Agreement. The selling party and the purchasing party shall, for a period of thirty (30) days following the last to expire applicable option period, attempt to mutually agree upon the gross fair market value of the assets of the Company. If the selling party and the purchasing party are not able to agree within this thirty (30) day period, fair market value shall be determined by appraisal.
ii. Appraisal. For a period of seven (7) days following expiration of the thirty (30) day period specified in the above paragraph, the selling party and the purchasing party shall attempt to mutually agree upon an appraiser. If the parties agree upon the identity of the appraiser, the appraiser shall determine the gross fair market value of the assets of the Company other than money. If the parties are not able to reach agreement within such seven (7) day period, each shall identify an appraiser, the appraisers identified by the selling party and purchasing party shall select a third appraiser, and the third appraiser shall determine the gross fair market value of the assets of the Company. The costs and expense of the appraiser(s) shall be paid one-half by the selling party and one-half by the purchasing party.
iii. Involuntary Transfer Purchase Price. The purchase price shall equal seventy-five percent (75%) of the amount that the Board of Managers in its discretion determines would be distributed with respect to the Involuntary Transfer Interest if the Company were dissolved, its affairs wound up, its assets other than money were sold for cash equal to their gross fair market value as determined by appraisal as set forth above, all distributions permitted under Section 7.1 were made, and thereafter the remaining assets of the Company were applied and distributed in accordance with Section 15.3(b).
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f. Payment Terms. Unless otherwise agreed to by the parties, any payment made pursuant to an exercise of an option to purchase an Involuntary Transfer Interest shall be made in cash within thirty (30) days from the date of exercise of the option to purchase.
13.3 Prohibited Transfers. In the case of a Transfer or attempted Transfer of Member Interests that is not permitted by, or is not made in compliance with, this Article XIII (a Prohibited Transfer), such transfer shall be void and the parties engaging or attempting to engage in such Transfer shall be liable to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and the other Members from all cost, liability, and damage that the Company and any of such indemnified Members may incur (including, without limitation, incremental tax liabilities, attorneys fees and expenses) as a result of such Transfer or attempted Transfer and efforts to enforce the indemnity granted hereby. The term Prohibited Transfer shall include any Disposition of a Member Interest without the approval of a majority of the Managers (i) to a competitor or Affiliate of a competitor of Clean Energy in the CNG or LNG refueling business, (ii) to a foreign person or tax-exempt entity or (iii) if as a result of such Disposition the Company would cease to be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes or for such purposes be treated as a publicly traded partnership (other than in connection with an initial public offering of interests in the Company or its successor), be considered to hold plan assets within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, be an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or become subject other regulatory scheme that would impose material expense or material burden upon the Company (other than in connection with an initial public offering of interests in the Company or its successor).
13.4 Rights of Unadmitted Assignees. A Person who acquires Member Interests but who is not admitted as a substituted Member pursuant to Section 13.5 hereof shall be entitled only to allocations and distributions with respect to such Member Interests in accordance with this Agreement, and shall have no right to any information or accounting of the affairs of the Company, shall not be entitled to inspect any books or records of the Company, and shall not have any of the rights of a Member under the Delaware Act or this Agreement; provided, however, PlainsCapital Bank shall be deemed to be admitted as a Member with all rights and obligations under this Agreement and to have accepted and adopted all terms and provisions of this Agreement with respect to any Member Interest acquired by PlainsCapital Bank by foreclosure under a pledge in connection with the Clean Energy Borrowing, without the need to comply with the provisions of Section 13.5, including without limitation all rights and obligations of Clean Energy under this Agreement.
13.5 Admission of Substituted Members. In addition to the other provisions of this Article XIII, a transferee of Member Interests may be admitted to the Company as a substituted Member only upon satisfaction of all of the conditions set forth in this Section 13.5:
(a) The Member Interests with respect to which the transferee is being admitted were acquired by means of a Transfer permitted by this Article XIII;
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(b) The transferee of Member Interests (other than, with respect to clauses (i) and (ii) below, a transferee that was a Member prior to the Transfer) shall, by written instrument in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Board (and, in the case of clause (iii) below, the transferor Member), (i) make representations and warranties customary for transactions of a similar type to each nontransferring Member, (ii) accept and adopt the terms and provisions of this Agreement, including this Article XIII, and (iii) assume the obligations of the transferor Member under this Agreement with respect to the transferred Member Interests. The transferor Member shall be released from all such assumed obligations except (x) those obligations or liabilities of the transferor Member arising out of a breach of this Agreement, and (y) those obligations or liabilities of the transferor Member based on events occurring, arising or maturing prior to the date of Transfer;
(a) The transferee pays or reimburses the Company for all reasonable legal, filing, and other costs that the Company incurs in connection with the admission of the transferee as a Member with respect to the transferred Member Interests; and
(b) The transferee (other than a transferee that was a Member prior to the Transfer) shall deliver to the Company evidence of the authority of such Person to become a Member and to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and the transferee and transferor shall each execute and deliver such other instruments as the Board reasonably deems necessary or appropriate to effect, and as a condition to, such Transfer, including amendments to the Certificate of Formation of the Company or any other instrument filed with the State of Delaware or any other state or Governmental Authority.
In the event that one or more of the foregoing conditions is not met but a transferee nonetheless acquires Member Interests in the Company, such transferee shall have only the rights of an unadmitted assignee as described in Section 13.4.
13.6 Representations Regarding Transfers; Legend.
(a) Each Member hereby represents to, and covenants and agrees with, the Company, for the benefit of the Company and all Members, that (i) it is not currently making a market in the Member Interests and will not in the future make a market in the Member Interests without the prior written approval of the Board, (ii) it will not Transfer its Member Interests on an established securities market, a secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof) within the meaning of Code Section 7704(b) (and any Treasury Regulations, proposed Treasury Regulations, revenue rulings, or other official pronouncements of the Internal Revenue Service or Treasury Department that may be promulgated or published thereunder), and (iii) in the event such Treasury Regulations, revenue rulings, or other pronouncements treat any or all arrangements which facilitate the selling of Member Interests and which are commonly referred to as matching services as being a secondary market or substantial equivalent thereof, it will not Transfer any Member Interests through a matching service that is not approved in advance by the Board. Each Member further agrees that it will not Transfer any Member Interests to any Person unless such Person agrees to be bound by this Section 13.6(a) and to Transfer such Member Interests only to Persons who agree to be similarly bound.
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(b) Each Member hereby represents and warrants to the Company and the other Members that such Members acquisition of Member Interests is or was made as principal for such Members own account and not for resale or distribution of such Member Interests. Each Member hereby agrees that the following legend may be placed upon any counterpart of this Agreement or any certificate or other document or instrument evidencing ownership of Member Interests:
THE MEMBER INTERESTS REPRESENTED BY THIS DOCUMENT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE SECURITIES ACT), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE. THESE MEMBER INTERESTS HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED FOR INVESTMENT AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO DISTRIBUTION OR RESALE. SUCH MEMBER INTERESTS MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, DELIVERED AFTER SALE, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ASSIGNED OR HYPOTHECATED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT COVERING SUCH SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, UNLESS THE HOLDER SHALL HAVE OBTAINED AN OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED.
THE MEMBER INTERESTS REPRESENTED BY THIS DOCUMENT ARE SUBJECT TO FURTHER RESTRICTION AS TO THEIR SALE, TRANSFER, PLEDGE, HYPOTHECATION, OR ASSIGNMENT AS SET FORTH IN THE COMPANYS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT.
The Company shall cause such legend to be removed at such time as the Company is advised by its counsel that such legend may be removed, or the Company has received an opinion of counsel to a Member, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Company, that such legend may be removed.
(c) Each Member represents and warrants to the Company and each other Member that such Member is duly organized or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization or formation and the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Agreement is within its powers, has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other action on its behalf, requires no action by or in respect of, or filing with, any governmental body, agency or official, and does not and will not contravene, or constitute a default under, any provision of applicable law or regulation or of its certificate of incorporation or other comparable organizational documents or any agreement, judgment, injunction, order, decree or other instrument to which such Member is a party or by which such Member or any of its properties is bound. This Agreement constitutes a valid and binding agreement of such Member, enforceable against such Member in accordance with its terms.
(d) Cambrian McCommas Bluff represents and warrants to Clean Energy that (i) Evan Williams and his sibling Tudor Williams each beneficially owns and controls forty-two and one-half percent (42.5%), and the son of Evan Williams, Rhys Williams, beneficially owns
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and controls fifteen percent (15%) of each of the equity securities and voting securities of Cambrian McCommas Bluff, (ii) no other Persons has any beneficial ownership or control of any equity securities or voting securities of Cambrian McCommas Bluff (or any right to acquire ay such beneficial ownership or control), (iii) Cambrian Energy Development owns all of the equity securities and voting securities of Cambrian Energy Management, and (iv) the individuals identified in clause (i) of this Section 13.6(d) control Cambrian Energy Development and Cambrian Energy Management.
(e) The foregoing representations, warranties and agreements shall survive the date of the Members admission to the Company, any cessation of its status as a Member, and any dissolution, termination or liquidation of the Company.
13.7 Distributions and Allocations in Respect of Transferred Member Interests. If any Member Interests are Transferred in compliance with the provisions of this Article XIII, profits, losses, each item thereof, and all other items attributable to the transferred Member Interests for such allocation year shall be divided and allocated between the transferor and the transferee by taking into account their varying Member Interests during the Fiscal Year in accordance with Code Section 706(d), using any conventions permitted by law and selected by the Board. All distributions on or before the date of such Transfer shall be made to the transferor, and all distributions thereafter shall be made to the transferee. Neither the Company nor any Member, Manager or officer shall incur any liability for making allocations and distributions in accordance with the provisions of this Section 13.7, whether or not any Member, Manager or officer or the Company has knowledge of any Transfer of ownership of any Member Interests.
13.8 Drag-Along. In the event one or more Member(s) (the Dragging Member) proposes a sale of all Member Interests owned by such Member(s), which Member Interests constitutes at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the outstanding Member Interests of the Company, in one or more related transactions to a bona fide third party purchaser on an arms length basis, the Dragging Member will have the right (the Drag-Along Right) to require all (but not less than all) of the other Members (each a Drag-Along Member and collectively, the Drag-Along Members) to sell all their Member Interests by providing a notice (the Drag-Along Notice) to the Drag-Along Members. The Drag-Along Notice shall include: (i) a statement of the Dragging Members bona fide intent to sell the requisite number of Member Interests, (ii) the name and address of the proposed purchaser, (iii) the total consideration to be paid by the purchaser for Member Interests collectively, which must be in cash or obligations to pay cash, (iv) the other terms and conditions of the proposed transfer including the closing date of the transaction, and (v) such other information as the recipient of the Drag-Along Notice may reasonably request. Notwithstanding the terms of any offer of the proposed purchaser or in the Drag-Along Notice, the amount of any consideration payable to Members with respect to Member Interests shall be allocated (i) first to Clean Energy in the amount the Adjusted Capital Return, determined as of the date of transfer, and (ii) thereafter among Members in proportion to their respective numbers of Member Interests. The Drag-Along Rights may be exercised without following the requirements of Section 13.2 c and, if a Drag-Along Notice is given, the procedures of Section 13.9 may not be invoked unless and until there is not reasonable possibility that a sale pursuant to the Drag-Along Notice will occur.
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13.9 Buy-Sell. After December 31, 2009, a Member (the Initiating Member) desiring to acquire all of the Member Interests of the remaining Members may provide a written notice (Buy/Sell Notice) to the remaining Members (the Target Members) setting forth the Stated Value (as hereinafter defined) and stating that the Initiating Member will either sell all of the Initiating Members Member Interests or purchase all of the Member Interests of the Target Members at the price determined based on the Stated Value. For purposes of this paragraph, (i) the Stated Value contained in the Buy/Sell Notice will be a hypothetical cash price for all the assets of the Company without assumption of funded indebtedness of the Company, and (ii) the price payable to a selling Member shall be the amount that the selling Member (be that the Initiating Member or the Target Members) would receive with respect to the Member Interests of such selling Member upon dissolution of the Company following a sale of all assets of the Company for cash in the amount of the Stated Value. Upon a sale pursuant to a Buy/Sell Notice, each selling Member and its Affiliates also shall be repaid all indebtedness of the Company to such Member or its Affiliates to the extent there would be funds available to pay such indebtedness upon such a sale at the Stated Value. Each Target Member will reply in writing to the other Members and the Company within one-hundred eighty (180) days of receiving a Buy/Sell Notice as to whether the Target Member will sell the Target Members Member Interests to the Initiating Member or purchase the Initiating Members Member Interests. Failure by the Target Member to respond in writing within said one-hundred eighty (180) day time period will be deemed an election by the Target Member to sell the Target Members Member Interests to the Initiating Member. The purchase and sale of the Member Interests under this paragraph will be consummated within ninety (90) days after the termination of the one-hundred eighty (180) day notice period. The purchase price for the Member Interests and any indebtedness of a selling Member payable as set forth above will be paid in immediately available funds. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) except as otherwise agreed by the Company, any liability of the selling Member or its Affiliates to the Company (including any liability for damages) shall survive the sale of its Member Interests and (ii) except as otherwise agreed by the Purchasing Members, any liability of the selling Member or its Affiliates to the purchasing Members (including any liability for damages) shall survive the sale of its Member Interests. For so long as the Clean Energy Borrowing is outstanding, a condition precedent to closing a Transfer pursuant to this Section 13.9 shall be payment in full of the Clean Energy Borrowing and all amounts payable by Clean Energy in connection therewith.
ARTICLE XIV
ADMISSION AND WITHDRAWAL OF MEMBERS
14.1 Admission of Members. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, no additional Person, other than an Affiliate of a Member (including an Assignee), that acquires a Member Interest (including any Member Interests), shall be admitted to the Company as a Member without the unanimous approval of the Board, which approval may be given or withheld in the Boards sole discretion, subject to Section 9.10. An Assignee, in its capacity as such, of a Member Interest shall only be entitled to receive allocations and distributions pursuant to Articles VI and VII and shall not have any other rights or powers of a Member, including any voting rights. Until an Assignee becomes a Member, the transferring Member from which such Assignee received its Member Interest shall not have the right to receive allocations or distributions pursuant to Articles VI and VII.
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14.2 Admission of Transferee Affiliate. An Affiliate shall be admitted to the Company as a Member, effective immediately prior to such transfer; provided that such transferee shall have furnished to the Board acceptance, in form satisfactory to the Board, of all the terms and conditions of this Agreement and such other documents as the Board shall reasonably request.
14.3 Withdrawal of Members. Except following the transfer of its Member Interest as provided in Article XIII and the admission of its transferee as a Member pursuant to Section 13.5, a Member may not withdraw from the Company.
14.4 Amendment of this Agreement. Following the admission to the Company of any successor transferee, Affiliate or new Member, the Board shall take all steps necessary and appropriate to prepare and record or file, if necessary, as soon as practicable, an amendment to this Agreement and other filings relating thereto.
ARTICLE XV
DISSOLUTION AND LIQUIDATION
15.1 Dissolution. The Company shall be dissolved and its affairs shall be wound up upon the occurrence of any of the following events:
(a) the entry of a decree of judicial dissolution under the Delaware Act; or
(b) upon the vote required by Section 9.10.
The Company shall not be dissolved upon the resignation, expulsion, bankruptcy or dissolution of a Member.
15.2 Notice of Dissolution. Upon the dissolution of the Company, the Board of Managers shall promptly notify the Members of such dissolution.
15.3 Liquidation.
(a) General. Upon dissolution of the Company, the Board of Managers or a Manager designated by the Board, as liquidating trustee, shall immediately commence to wind up the Companys affairs (a Liquidation); provided, however, that a reasonable time shall be allowed for the orderly liquidation of the assets of the Company and the satisfaction of liabilities to creditors so as to enable the Members to minimize the normal Losses attendant upon a Liquidation. The Members shall continue to share Profits and Losses of the Company during liquidation in the same manner, as specified in Article VI hereof, as is applicable before Liquidation.
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(b) Distribution of Company Assets. The proceeds of Liquidation, after payment of all liabilities, indebtedness, accrued compensation owed to employees and consultants of the Company under contractual arrangements or employee benefit plans entered into in the ordinary course of business prior to the Companys dissolution and other obligations of the Company and after the provision of any reserve as determined by the Board of Managers, shall be distributed in accordance with Section 7.2.
15.4 No Deficit Restoration Obligation. In the event that any Member has a deficit balance in its Capital Account following the liquidation of the Company, as determined after taking into account all Capital Account adjustments for the Fiscal Year in which such liquidation occurs, in no event shall such Member be required to contribute additional capital to the Company or pay any other Member or third party, to offset such deficit balance.
ARTICLE XVI
GENERAL PROVISIONS
16.1 Addresses and Notices. Any notice, demand, request or report required or permitted to be given or made to a Member or a Manager under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed given or made when delivered in person or when sent by United States registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by a reputable courier service to the Member or the Manager at the address described below. Notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered or sent as hereinabove provided to the Members at their respective addresses set forth on Schedule A hereto and to the Managers at the addresses provided to the Company and maintained by the Secretary. A Member may at any time or from time to time designate, by notice to the Company, another address in lieu of the address specified herein or in any previous designation pursuant to this sentence. Any notice to the Company shall be deemed given if received by the Board at the principal office of the Company.
16.2 Amendment. This Agreement may not be amended or terminated except as set forth in Section 9.14.
16.3 Titles and Captions; Construction. All article and section titles and captions in this Agreement are for convenience only, shall not be deemed part of this Agreement, and shall in no way define, limit, extend, or describe the scope or intent of any provisions hereof. Except as specifically provided otherwise, references to Articles and Sections are to articles and sections of this Agreement. The language of this Agreement is the language chosen by the parties to express their understanding and agreement, and shall not be construed strictly against any party.
16.4 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement, and all the terms and provisions hereof, shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the Members, the Managers, their spouses, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, personal or legal representatives, successors and permitted assigns.
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16.5 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein or in any other agreement making a reference to this Agreement, none of the provisions of this Agreement shall be for the benefit of or enforceable by any Person (including any creditor of the Company) other than the parties hereto and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, personal or legal representatives, successors, and permitted assigns.
16.6 Further Action. The parties shall execute and deliver all documents, provide all information and take or refrain from taking action as may be necessary or appropriate to achieve the purposes of this Agreement.
16.7 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, the Exhibits and Schedules hereto, and the other documents delivered pursuant hereto constitute the full and entire understanding and agreement between the parties with regard to the subjects hereof and no party shall be liable or bound to any other in any manner by any representations, warranties, covenants and agreements except as specifically set forth herein and therein.
16.8 Waiver. No failure by any party to insist upon the strict performance of any covenant, duty, agreement or condition of this Agreement or to exercise any right or remedy consequent upon a breach thereof shall constitute waiver of any such breach or any other covenant, duty, agreement or condition.
16.9 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement, notwithstanding that all such parties are not signatories to the original or the same counterpart.
16.10 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be an agreement under seal governed by and interpreted and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Delaware, without reference to principles of conflicts or choices of laws.
16.11 Pronouns and Plurals. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun used in this Agreement shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine or neuter forms, and the singular form of nouns, pronouns and verbs shall include the plural and vice versa.
16.12 Invalidity of Provisions. If any provision of this Agreement shall be or become invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not be affected thereby.
16.13 Conflicts. The Members acknowledge that their respective affiliates, officers, directors, partners, members and stockholders presently, and in the future will invest in, own, acquire, develop, manage and operate other energy projects or energy technologies and engage in other business activities which may be similar to or in competition with the Projects. This Agreement is not intended to confer any interest in profits, income or participation in those other ventures and the Members waive any conflict of interest that may arise and relinquish any right or claim in any income or profits from any other business venture of the other Members. However, the members may mutually elect from time to time to jointly acquire or develop additional energy projects. The Members further acknowledge that Evan Williams is an attorney
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with the law firm of Poindexter & Doutre, Inc. in Los Angeles, California, which law firm has represented Evan Williams and Cambrian for many years and represented Cambrian in connection with some of the Projects. To the extent that Poindexter & Doutre, Inc., through Evan Williams or any other attorney at Poindexter & Doutre, Inc., currently represents Cambrian or Cambrian McCommas Bluff, or both, a conflict of interest may exist with previous work in drafting certain of the legal documents pertaining to the Project. Further, Evan Williams, through his ownership in Cambrian, will indirectly have an interest in Cambrian McCommas Bluff and the Project. Rules 3-300, 3-310 and 3-600 of the Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of California prohibit an attorney from acquiring an interest adverse to a client unless (i) the transaction and its terms are fair and reasonable to the client and are fully disclosed and transmitted in writing in a manner which should be reasonably understood by the client; and (ii) the client is advised in writing that the client may seek the advice of an independent lawyer of the clients choice and is given a reasonable opportunity to seek that advice; and (iii) the client thereafter consents in writing to the terms of the transaction.
Each of the Members by signing a copy of this Agreement acknowledges that (i) it is aware of the conflict of interest that exists to the extent that either Evan Williams or Poindexter & Doutre, Inc. performs or has performed legal services either directly or indirectly for the benefit of any of Cambrian, Cambrian McCommas Bluff, the Company or any of their respective Affiliates, (ii) it has sought the advice of independent legal counsel in entering into this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, and (iii) it consents to Evan Williams and Poindexter & Doutre, Inc. (including other individual attorneys thereof) performing legal services directly or indirectly for the benefit of any of Cambrian, the Company, the Project Company and/or any of their respective Affiliates.
16.14 Legal Fees. Third party legal fees and costs incurred by the parties in connection with the documentation of this Agreement shall be paid by such parties and not by the Company. In the event proceedings shall be instituted to rescind, declare, interpret or enforce any right arising hereunder, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover expenses incurred therein including reasonable attorney fees.
16.15 Disputes. In the event a dispute develops between the members, the CEO or equivalent of each Member shall first meet to try to resolve the matter. In the event the Members are unable to resolve the matter, any action to enforce or interpret this Agreement or to resolve disputes between the Members or by or against any Member (unless the relief sought requires the exercise of the equity powers of a court of competent jurisdiction) shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any party may commence arbitration by sending a written demand for arbitration to the other parties. Such demand shall set forth the nature of the matter to be resolved by arbitration. Arbitration shall be conducted at Los Angeles, California. The substantive law of the State of California shall be applied by the arbitrator to the resolution of the dispute. The prevailing party shall be entitled to reimbursement of attorneys fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the arbitration. All decisions of the arbitrator shall be final, binding and conclusive on all parties. Judgment may be entered upon any such decision in accordance with applicable law in any court having jurisdiction thereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this CE Dallas Renewables LLC Limited Liability Company Agreement
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MEMBERS: |
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Clean Energy |
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By: |
/s/ Richard R. Wheeler |
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Richard R. Wheeler, Chief Financial Officer |
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Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC |
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By: |
/s/ Evan Williams |
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Evan Williams, Manager |
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Schedule A
MEMBERS
Name and Address of Member |
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Capital |
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Member Percentage |
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Clean Energy |
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$18,400,000 |
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70% Before Exercise of the Option to Cambrian McCommas Bluff |
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Cambrian Energy
McCommas |
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$1,000 plus the contribution of the release delivered to Camco and other contractual rights |
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30% Before Exercise of the Option to Cambrian McCommas Bluff |
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Total |
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$18,401,000 |
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100% |
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Schedule B
Development Costs to be funded by Clean Energy Loan
Capital Improvement |
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Estimated |
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Grouped |
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Media Capital Expenditures Reimbursed to Camco |
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Payment to Camco for Media Capital Expenditures, which are the Sulfa Treat media, carbon bed media and molecular sieve media |
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$ |
1,000,000 |
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$ |
1,000,000 |
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Gas Processing Facility |
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Repair Turbocharger Expansion Joints |
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$ |
13,200 |
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Change Out Valve Coils |
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$ |
9,900 |
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Replace Safety Valves and Rupture Discs/Spare Set of Valves |
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$ |
35,200 |
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Overhaul CO2 Vacuum Blower/Spare 1st Stage Blower |
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$ |
370,000 |
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Repair/Replace Pressure Switches |
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$ |
13,200 |
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Replace Bypass Control Valve Instrumentation |
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$ |
6,600 |
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Purchase Spare Expansion Joints |
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$ |
13,200 |
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Replace Thermal Oxidizer |
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$ |
700,000 |
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Air Standby Compressor |
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$ |
71,500 |
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Add Fuses to Control Panel |
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$ |
13,200 |
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Install Electric Gate/Improved Security System |
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$ |
31,500 |
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Replace SCADA System |
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$ |
400,000 |
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Add Sulfa Treat Tanks |
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$ |
380,000 |
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Add Variable Frequency Drives to Fin Fan Coolers |
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$ |
51,600 |
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Upgrade Control Room HVAC |
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$ |
89,100 |
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Install Oil/Water Separator and Waste Oil Tank |
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$ |
18,700 |
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Add Blowers and Flare |
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$ |
247,500 |
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Spare Parts and Equipment Storage Containers |
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$ |
125,000 |
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Engineering/Construction Management for Gas Processing Facility Capital Improvement Projects |
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$ |
217,000 |
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Purchase NOx offset credits for interim operation of engine-compressor until electric-driven compressors are installed |
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$ |
55,000 |
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Contingency |
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$ |
450,000 |
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$ |
3,311,400 |
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Landfill Gas Collection System |
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Wellfield Drilling and Well Completion 73 new wells with construction of lateral piping to new wells and repair of piping |
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$ |
1,200,000 |
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Install 1,200 feet of New 36 Header Pipe and Relocate Headers |
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$ |
440,000 |
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SCS Construction Management |
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$ |
65,000 |
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$ |
1,705,000 |
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Electric Drive Compressors and Related Construction |
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LFG Compression/Refrigeration Skids |
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$ |
2,600,000 |
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Product Gas Compressor |
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$ |
600,000 |
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CO2 Purge Gas Compressor |
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$ |
800,000 |
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Major Electrical Equipment |
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$ |
650,000 |
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Electrical/Instrumentation |
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$ |
840,000 |
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Mechanical |
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$ |
1,200,000 |
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Civil/Structural |
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$ |
500,000 |
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Engineering/Construction Management for Electric Drive Procurement and Installation |
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$ |
435,000 |
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Acquisition Closing Costs |
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$ |
100,000 |
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$ |
7,725,000 |
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TOTAL ESTIMATED DEVELOPMENT COSTS |
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$ |
13,741,400 |
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Exhibit 99.3
LOAN AGREEMENT
Dated as of August 15, 2008
between
CE DALLAS RENEWABLES LLC,
a Delaware limited liability company
as Borrower
and
CLEAN ENERGY,
a California corporation
as Lender
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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LOANS AND LETTERS OF CREDIT |
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Loan Amount |
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Availability Period |
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Interest Rate |
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FEES AND EXPENSES |
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Fees and Expenses |
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Reimbursement Costs |
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DISBURSEMENTS, PAYMENTS AND COSTS |
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Disbursements and Payments |
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Banking Days |
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Interest Calculation |
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Conditions to Closing |
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Conditions to Each Loan |
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Formation |
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Authorization |
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Enforceable Agreement |
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Good Standing |
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No Conflicts |
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Financial Information |
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Collateral |
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RESTRICTED PAYMENTS |
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Travel Expenses |
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HAZARDOUS MATERIALS - REAL PROPERTY |
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Indemnity Regarding Hazardous Materials |
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Representation and Warranty Regarding Hazardous Materials |
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Compliance Regarding Hazardous Materials |
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Notices Regarding Hazardous Materials |
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Site Visits, Observations and Testing |
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Unsecured Obligation |
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Environmental Definitions |
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Cross-default |
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False Information |
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Bankruptcy |
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Receivers |
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Lien Priority |
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Lawsuits |
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Judgments |
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Material Adverse Change |
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Government Action |
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Default under Related Documents |
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ERISA Plans |
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Other Breach Under Agreement |
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Change of Control |
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Gas Lease |
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ENFORCING THIS AGREEMENT; MISCELLANEOUS |
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Governing Law |
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Successors and Assigns |
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Dispute Resolution Provision |
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Severability; Waivers |
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Attorneys Fees |
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Set-Off |
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One Agreement; Modifications |
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Indemnification |
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Headings |
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Counterparts |
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Borrower Information; Reporting to Credit Bureaus |
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Usury Savings |
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Notice of Final Agreement |
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LOAN AGREEMENT
This Loan Agreement (this Agreement) dated as of August 15, 2008, is entered into between CE DALLAS RENEWABLES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (Borrower) and CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation (Lender), with reference to the following facts:
RECITALS
A. Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (together with its affiliates, Cambrian) and Lender have formed Borrower as a joint venture entity pursuant to the Limited Liability Company Agreement of CE Dallas Renewables LLC dated as of August 15, 2008 (as amended, the DCE Operating Agreement).
B. Concurrently herewith, Borrower shall acquire all of the membership interests of Dallas Clean Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (DCE) pursuant to the Membership Interest Purchase and Sale Agreement dated as of August 15, 2008 (the DCE Purchase Agreement), by and among Camco International Ltd., a Jersey company, Camco DCE Limited, a Jersey company, Camco DCE, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Lender, Cambrian, and Borrower (such acquisition is herein referred to as the DCE Acquisition). DCE owns all of the leases, permits, equipment, personal property, and tangible and intangible property and rights associated with the landfill gas to-high Btu gas energy project at the McCommas Bluff Landfill in Dallas County, City of Dallas, Texas (the Project).
C. Immediately following the DCE Acquisition, Borrower shall merge into DCE, with DCE continuing as the surviving entity (such merger is herein referred to as the DCE Post Closing Merger) and DCE assuming all the rights and obligations of Borrower hereunder (such assumption is herein referred to the DCE Assumption, and collectively with the DCE Acquisition and the DCE Post Closing Merger, the DCE Restructure). Following the DCE Restructure, all references to Borrower contained herein and in any of the other instruments, documents or agreements executed in connection herewith shall be deemed to include and refer to DCE.
D. In order to fund certain capital improvements to be made in connection with the process of repairing, improving, expanding and operating the Project, Borrower has requested that Lender provide secured financing to Borrower in an aggregate principal amount of up to $14,000,000.
E. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, Lender has agreed to provide such financing to Borrower.
AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Borrower and Lender hereby covenant and agree as follows:
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1. LOANS AND LETTERS OF CREDIT
1.1 Loan Amount. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, Lender agrees, for so long as no default or event of default under this agreement exists, to make loans (each a Loan, and collectively, the Loans) to Borrower from time to time, on any banking day during the availability period described in Section 1.3 below, provided that no such Loan shall be made unless each of the following conditions shall have been satisfied, each of which shall be in form and substance satisfactory to Lender and shall be in addition to the conditions set forth in Section 4.2:
(a) Lender shall have received a request for loan from Borrower, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, no later than, unless otherwise consented to by Lender, three banking days prior to date of the requested Loan, which request shall include, without limitation, (i) the date and amount of such requested Loan, (ii) the manner in which the loan proceeds shall be disbursed, (iii) a certification that (A) no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing under this Agreement, (B) the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and any other document executed in connection herewith are true and correct and (C) the condition described in clause (b) below has been satisfied, in each case as of the date of, and after giving effect to, the requested Loan, and (iv) such evidence as Lender may require, demonstrating that such Loan has been approved by the board of managers of Borrower in accordance with the DCE Operating Agreement.
(b) After giving effect to such Loan, the aggregate initial principal amount of all Loans made as of such date, including, without limitation, Loans related to issuance of Letters of Credit as described in Section 1.2, minus the amount of any reserves established pursuant to Section 1.2(b) shall not exceed $14,000,000.
(c) Lender shall have received evidence from Borrower, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, that Borrower will use the proceeds of each requested Loan for capital improvements identified on Schedule 1.1, prior expenditures for the drilling and installation of gas collection wells, or such other capital expenditures as Lender may consent to in its sole discretion.
(d) Lender shall have received, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, evidence of insurance covering any equipment Borrower proposes to purchase with the proceeds of each Loan.
(e) Borrower shall have delivered or caused to be delivered to Lender any and all other documents, agreements and instruments deemed necessary by Lender in connection with the making of such Loan including, without limitation, certificates of title, if any, for equipment, if required by Lender.
On the date hereof, Borrower shall have been deemed to have requested, and Lender shall have been deemed to have made, a Loan hereunder in the principal amount of $714,370.44 in order to fund the media capital expenditures identified on Schedule 1.1.
Amounts borrowed under this Section 1.1 and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.
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1.2 Letters of Credit. At the election of Lender, in its sole discretion, Lender or one of its affiliates, as the account party, may procure the issuance of one or more letters of credit (each a Letter of Credit, and collectively, the Letters of Credit) in such amounts and in favor of such beneficiaries as may be requested by Borrower from time to time during the availability period described in Section 1.3 below, provided that:
(a) Lender shall have received a request for letter of credit from Borrower, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, with such advance notice as Lender may require, which request shall include, without limitation, (i) the date, beneficiary, and amount of such requested Letter of Credit, and (ii) a certification that (A) no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing under this Agreement, (B) the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and any other document executed in connection herewith are true and correct, and (C) the condition described in Section 1.1(b) has been satisfied, in each case as of the date of, and after giving effect to, the requested Letter of Credit and any resulting Loans. Borrower shall also provide such other documents as Lender, in its sole discretion, may request.
(b) For purposes of calculating the amount of availability under the Loans as described in Section 1.1(a), a reserve shall be established against the availability of the Loans in an amount equal to 105% of the undrawn face amount of all Letters Credit.
(c) Upon the drawing of any amount under any Letter of Credit, Borrower shall be deemed to have requested, and Lender shall have been deemed to have made, a Loan in an amount equal to the amount drawn upon such Letter of Credit.
(d) Upon the earlier of the due date or date of payment of any costs, fees or expenses (including, without limitation, (i) such issuance, negotiation, amendment, transfer and other fees as may be charged by the Letter of Credit issuer and (ii) any legal expenses) incurred by Lender or any of its affiliates in connection with the issuance of any such Letter of Credit, Borrower shall be deemed to have requested, and Lender shall have been deemed to have made, a Loan in an amount equal to such costs, fees or expenses.
(e) Upon the occurrence of an event of default hereunder, Borrower shall cash collateralize or provide a backstop letter of credit, in each case, in form and substance acceptable to Lender, in an amount equal to 105% of the undrawn face amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit, provided that, for so long as any PCB Obligations (as defined below) remain outstanding, any amounts deposited as cash collateral in accordance with this Section 1.2(e) shall be deposited with PCB (as defined below).
For the avoidance of doubt, Lender shall have no obligation to honor any request for a Letter of Credit from Borrower, and shall incur no liability as result of its election not to honor any such request.
1.3 Availability Period. The Loans are available in multiple disbursements from Lender between the date of this Agreement and July 29, 2013, unless a default or event of default of this Agreement has occurred and is continuing.
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1.4 Interest Rate. Subject to the last sentence of this section, all outstanding obligations hereunder shall bear interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof (including on the unpaid principal amount of the Loans and, to the extent permitted by law, on interest thereon or fees not paid when due) at a per annum rate of 12%. Additionally, the aggregate undrawn amount of all Letters of Credits shall bear interest in the same fashion as the outstanding obligations referred to above. Upon the occurrence of any default under this Agreement, all such outstanding obligations referred to above will, at the option of Lender, bear interest at a rate which is 3 percentage points higher than the rate of interest otherwise provided under this Agreement. This will not constitute a waiver of any default.
1.5 Repayment Terms.
(a) Borrower will pay interest on September 30, 2008, and then on the last day of each calendar quarter thereafter until payment in full of any principal outstanding under this Agreement.
(b) Borrower will repay principal in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Loans and (ii) $2,800,000 beginning on August 1, 2009, and on each anniversary thereafter, and ending on August 1, 2013 (the Repayment Period). In any event, on the last day of the Repayment Period, Borrower will repay the remaining principal balance plus any interest then due.
1.6 Mandatory Payments. The outstanding principal amount of the Loans shall be prepaid on or before the third banking day following the receipt by Borrower or any of its subsidiaries of:
(a) Net cash sales proceeds from any asset disposition by an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of such net cash sales proceeds.
(b) Net cash proceeds from the sale, loss, destruction, taking, or condemnation of any assets of Borrower or any of its subsidiaries by an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of such net cash proceeds.
(c) Net cash issuance proceeds from the issuance of indebtedness of Borrower or any of its subsidiaries by an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of such net cash issuance proceeds.
(d) Net cash issuance proceeds from the issuance of equity of Borrower or any of its subsidiaries by an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of such net cash issuance proceeds if such equity is issued for any reason other than for the purpose of acquiring specific property substantially concurrently therewith.
Any prepayment will be applied to the most remote payment of principal due under this Agreement.
1.7 Optional Prepayments. Borrower may prepay principal in full or in part at any time without the payment of a prepayment fee or premium. Any prepayment will be applied to the most remote payment of principal due under this Agreement.
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2. FEES AND EXPENSES
2.1 Fees and Expenses. Borrower agrees to immediately repay Lender for expenses that include, but are not limited to, filing, recording and search fees, appraisal fees, title report fees, and documentation fees.
2.2 Reimbursement Costs.
(a) Borrower agrees to reimburse Lender for any expenses it incurs in the preparation of this Agreement and any agreement or instrument required by this Agreement. Expenses include, but are not limited to, reasonable attorneys fees, including any allocated costs of Lenders in-house counsel to the extent permitted by applicable law.
(b) Borrower agrees to reimburse Lender for the cost of periodic field examinations of Borrowers books, records and collateral, and appraisals of the collateral, at such intervals as Lender may reasonably require. The actions described in this section may be performed by employees of Lender or by independent appraisers.
3. DISBURSEMENTS, PAYMENTS AND COSTS
3.1 Disbursements and Payments.
(a) All payments shall be made without set-off, recoupment or counterclaim, and shall be made free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding by reason of, any taxes, assessments or other charges imposed by any governmental agency, central bank or comparable authority.
(b) Each payment by Borrower shall be made in U.S. Dollars in immediately available funds by wire transfer to the account listed below Lenders name on the signature page hereto, or by such other method as may be permitted by Lender.
(c) Lender may honor instructions for advances or repayments given by any one of the individuals authorized to sign loan agreements on behalf of Borrower, or any other individual designated by any one of such authorized signers (each an Authorized Individual).
(d) Each disbursement by Lender and each payment by Borrower will be evidenced by records kept by Lender. In addition, Lender may, at its discretion, require Borrower to sign one or more promissory notes.
(e) Prior to the date each payment of principal and interest and any fees from Borrower becomes due (the Due Date), Lender will mail to Borrower a statement or otherwise inform Borrower in writing of the amounts that will be due on that Due Date (the Billed Amount). The calculations in the bill will be made on the assumption that no new extensions of credit or payments will be made between the date of the billing statement and the Due Date, and that there will be no changes in the applicable interest rate. If the Billed Amount differs from the actual amount due on the Due Date (the Accrued Amount), the discrepancy will be treated as follows:
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(i) If the Billed Amount is less than the Accrued Amount, the Billed Amount for the following Due Date will be increased by the amount of the discrepancy. Borrower will not be in default by reason of any such discrepancy.
(ii) If the Billed Amount is more than the Accrued Amount, the Billed Amount for the following Due Date will be decreased by the amount of the discrepancy.
Regardless of any such discrepancy, interest will continue to accrue based on the actual amount of principal outstanding without compounding. Lender will not pay Borrower interest on any overpayment.
3.2 Banking Days. Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, a banking day is a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close, or are in fact closed, in the state where Lenders chief executive office is located. All payments and disbursements which would be due on a day which is not a banking day will be due on the next banking day. All payments received on a day which is not a banking day or after noon (Los Angeles time) on any banking day will be applied to the credit on the next banking day.
3.3 Interest Calculation. Except as otherwise stated in this Agreement, all interest and fees, if any, will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed. Installments of principal which are not paid when due under this Agreement shall continue to bear interest until paid.
4. CONDITIONS.
4.1 Conditions to Closing. The effectiveness of this Agreement is subject to receipt by Lender of such documents and other items it may reasonably require, in form and substance acceptable to Lender, including any items specifically listed below:
(a) Promissory Note. A promissory note in favor of Lender in the principal amount of $14,000,000, duly executed by Borrower.
(b) Security Agreement. A security agreement in favor of Lender covering all personal property of Borrower, duly executed by Borrower.
(c) Cambrian Documents. The following documents duly executed by Cambrian in favor Lender:
(i) a non-recourse guaranty;
(ii) a pledge agreement, pledging Cambrians membership interests in the Borrower in order to secure the above referenced non-recourse guaranty; and
(iii) A subordination agreement regarding the subordination of the management fees owed to Cambrian by Borrower.
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(d) Negative Pledge. A negative pledge duly executed by the Borrower and each of its members with the respect to the Gas Lease referred to in Section 7.16, which negative pledge shall be in suitable format for recording.
(e) Perfection and Evidence of Priority. Evidence that the security interests and liens in favor of Lender are valid, enforceable, properly perfected in a manner acceptable to Lender and prior to all others rights and interests, except those Lender consents to in writing.
(f) Payment of Fees. Payment of all fees and other amounts due and owing to Lender, including without limitation payment of all accrued and unpaid expenses incurred by Lender as required by the section entitled Reimbursement Costs.
(g) DCE Acquisition and DCE Post Closing Merger.
(i) The DCE Acquisition shall be in a position to be consummated, subject only to the effectiveness of this Agreement, in accordance with the terms of the DCE Purchase Agreement.
(ii) The DCE Post Closing Merger shall be in a position to be consummated promptly following the DCE Acquisition in accordance with the terms of the DCE Operating Agreement and the other merger documents executed in connection therewith.
(h) Authorizations. If required by Lender, evidence satisfactory to Lender that the execution, delivery and performance by Borrower and/or such guarantor of this Agreement and any instrument or agreement required under this Agreement have been duly authorized.
(i) Governing Documents. If required by Lender, a copy of Borrowers organizational documents.
(j) Good Standing. If required by Lender, certificates of good standing for Borrower from its state of formation and from any other state in which Borrower is required to qualify to conduct its business.
(k) Insurance. If required by Lender, evidence of insurance coverage, including endorsements naming Lender and PCB as additional insured and loss payee, as Lender may reasonably require.
4.2 Conditions to Each Loan. The obligation of Lender to make any Loan, including the first, is subject to the satisfaction of each of the conditions listed below, in form and substance acceptable to Lender:
(a) Each of the conditions contained in Section 1.1 shall have been satisfied.
(b) Both before and after giving effect to such Loan, the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and any other document executed in connection herewith shall be true and correct.
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(c) Both before and after giving effect to such Loan, no default or event of default under this Agreement shall have occurred and be continuing.
(d) No circumstance or event shall have occurred which would constitute a material adverse change in Borrowers business condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects, or ability to repay the credit.
5. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
When Borrower signs this Agreement, and until Lender is repaid in full, Borrower makes the following representations and warranties, after given effect to the DCE Restructure. Each request for an extension of credit constitutes a renewal of these representations and warranties as of the date of the request:
5.1 Formation. Borrower is duly formed and existing under the laws of the state of Delaware.
5.2 Authorization. The execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement, and any instrument or agreement required hereunder, are within Borrowers powers, have been duly authorized, and do not conflict with any of its organizational papers.
5.3 Enforceable Agreement. This Agreement is a legal, valid and binding agreement of Borrower, enforceable against Borrower in accordance with its terms, and any instrument or agreement required hereunder, when executed and delivered, will be similarly legal, valid, binding and enforceable.
5.4 Good Standing. In each state in which Borrower does business, it is properly licensed, in good standing, and, where required, in compliance with fictitious name statutes.
5.5 No Conflicts. Neither this Agreement, nor any of the other documents executed in connection herewith, conflict with any law, agreement, or obligation by which Borrower is bound.
5.6 Financial Information. All financial and other information that has been or will be supplied to Lender is sufficiently complete to give Lender accurate knowledge of Borrowers (and any guarantors) financial condition, including all material contingent liabilities. Since the date of the most recent financial statement provided to Lender, there has been no material adverse change in the business condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects of Borrower (or any guarantor).
5.7 Collateral. All collateral securing the obligations under this Agreement or any other document executed in connection herewith is owned by the grantor of the security interest free of any title defects or any liens or interests of others, except those which have been approved by Lender in writing.
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6. RESTRICTED PAYMENTS. Borrower agrees, so long as credit is available under this Agreement and until Lender is repaid in full, not to pay or otherwise incur management, consulting, or other similar fees to any person other than:
6.1 Management Fees. So long as no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing under this Agreement, management fees to Cambrian in the amounts and at the times provided for in the DCE Operating Agreement.
6.2 Travel Expenses. All reasonable, documented travel expenses incurred by Cambrian directly related to the management of Borrower in an aggregate amount not to exceed $20,000 in any fiscal year, unless otherwise consented to by Lender.
6.3 Other Payments. Such payments as may be approved by the board of managers of the Borrower in accordance with the DCE Operating Agreement.
7. HAZARDOUS MATERIALS - REAL PROPERTY
7.1 Indemnity Regarding Hazardous Materials. Borrower agrees to indemnify and hold Lender harmless from and against all liabilities, claims, actions, foreseeable and unforeseeable consequential damages, costs and expenses (including sums paid in settlement of claims and all consultant, expert and legal fees and expenses of Lenders counsel) or loss directly or indirectly arising out of or resulting from any of the following:
(a) Any Hazardous Material being present at any time, whether before, during or after any construction, in or around any part of the real property described in Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part of this Agreement (the Real Property), or in the soil, groundwater or soil vapor on or under the Real Property, including those incurred in connection with any investigation of site conditions or any clean-up, remedial, removal or restoration work, or any resulting damages or injuries to the person or property of any third parties or to any natural resources.
(b) Any use, generation, manufacture, production, storage, release, threatened release, discharge, disposal or presence of a Hazardous Material. This indemnity will apply whether the Hazardous Material is on, under or about any of Borrowers property or operations or property leased to Borrower, whether or not the property has been taken by Lender as collateral.
(c) The construction of any improvements on the real property collateral, or the ownership, operation, or use of the real property collateral, whether such claims are based on theories of derivative liability, comparative negligence or otherwise.
(d) Any environmental liability related in any way to Borrower.
THE FOREGOING INDEMNIFICATION WILL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT SUCH LIABILITIES AND COSTS ARE IN ANY WAY OR TO ANY EXTENT OWED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, UNDER ANY CLAIM OR THEORY OF STRICT LIABILITY OR CAUSED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY ANY NEGLIGENT ACT OR OMISSION OF ANY KIND BY LENDER, provided that such indemnity shall not, as to Lender, be available to the extent that
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such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses (x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Lender or (y) result from a claim brought by Borrower against Lender for breach in bad faith of Lenders obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if Borrower has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. Upon demand by Lender, Borrower will defend any investigation, action or proceeding alleging the presence of any Hazardous Material in any such location, which affects the Real Property or which is brought or commenced against Lender, whether alone or together with Borrower or any other person, all at Borrowers own cost and by counsel to be approved by Lender in the exercise of its reasonable judgment. In the alternative, Lender may elect to conduct its own defense at the expense of Borrower. Borrowers obligations to Lender under this Article, except the obligation to give notices to Lender, shall survive termination of this Agreement, repayment of Borrowers obligations to Lender under this Agreement, and foreclosure of any deed of trust or mortgage encumbering the Real Property or similar proceedings.
7.2 Representation and Warranty Regarding Hazardous Materials. Before signing this Agreement, Borrower researched and inquired into the previous uses and ownership of the Real Property. Based on that due diligence, Borrower represents and warrants that to the best of its knowledge, no Hazardous Material has been disposed of or released or otherwise exists in, on, under or onto the Real Property, except as disclosed on the Disclosure Schedule to the PCB Credit Agreement.
7.3 Compliance Regarding Hazardous Materials. Borrower has complied, and will comply and cause all occupants of the Real Property to comply, with all current and future Environmental Laws. Borrower shall promptly, at Borrowers sole cost and expense, take all reasonable actions with respect to any Hazardous Materials or other environmental condition at, on, or under the Real Property necessary to (i) comply with all applicable Environmental Laws; (ii) allow continued use, occupation or operation of the Real Property; or (iii) maintain the fair market value of the Real Property. Borrower acknowledges that Hazardous Materials may permanently and materially impair the value and use of the Real Property.
7.4 Notices Regarding Hazardous Materials. Until full repayment of the loan, Borrower will promptly notify Lender in writing if it knows, suspects or believes there may be any Hazardous Material in or around the Real Property, or in the soil, groundwater or soil vapor on or under the Real Property, or that Borrower or the Real Property may be subject to any threatened or pending investigation by any governmental agency under any current or future law, regulation or ordinance pertaining to any Hazardous Material.
7.5 Site Visits, Observations and Testing. Lender and its agents and representatives will have the right at any reasonable time, after giving reasonable notice to Borrower, to enter and visit the Real Property and any other locations where any personal property collateral securing this Agreement is located, for the purposes of observing the Real Property and the personal property collateral, taking and removing environmental samples, and conducting tests on any part of the Real Property. Borrower shall reimburse Lender on demand for the costs of any such environmental investigation and testing. Lender will make reasonable efforts during any site visit, observation or testing conducted pursuant to this section to avoid interfering with
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Borrowers use of the Real Property and the personal property collateral. Lender is under no duty, however, to visit or observe the Real Property or the personal property collateral or to conduct tests, and any such acts by Lender will be solely for the purposes of protecting Lenders security and preserving Lenders rights under this Agreement. No site visit, observation or testing or any report or findings made as a result thereof (Environmental Report) (i) will result in a waiver of any default of Borrower; (ii) impose any liability on Lender; or (iii) be a representation or warranty of any kind regarding the Real Property or the personal property collateral (including its condition or value or compliance with any laws) or the Environmental Report (including its accuracy or completeness). In the event Lender has a duty or obligation under applicable laws, regulations or other requirements to disclose an Environmental Report to Borrower or any other party, Borrower authorizes Lender to make such a disclosure. Lender may also disclose an Environmental Report to any regulatory authority, and to any other parties as necessary or appropriate in Lenders judgment. Borrower further understands and agrees that any Environmental Report or other information regarding a site visit, observation or testing that is disclosed to Borrower by Lender or its agents and representatives is to be evaluated (including any reporting or other disclosure obligations of Borrower) by Borrower without advice or assistance from Lender.
7.6 Unsecured Obligation. Notwithstanding any provision in any deed of trust or mortgage encumbering the Real Property, Borrowers obligations to Lender under this Article are not secured by the Real Property.
7.7 Environmental Definitions.
(a) Environmental Laws means any and all Laws relating to the environment or to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of pollutants, contaminants, chemicals, or industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes into the environment including ambient air, surface water, ground water, or land, or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport, or handling of pollutants, contaminants, chemicals, or industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes. Environmental Laws include, without limitation, the Clean Air Act, as amended, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, as amended, the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, CERCLA, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, as amended, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments Act of 1984, as amended, the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended, the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), as amended, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended, any similar state laws, and any other federal, state and local Law whose purpose is to conserve or protect human health, the environment, wildlife or natural resources.
(b) Hazardous Materials means any substances regulated under any Environmental Law, whether as pollutants, contaminants, or chemicals, or as industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes, or otherwise, including, but not limited to (a) any hazardous substance, as defined by CERCLA; (b) any hazardous waste or solid waste, in either case as defined by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended; (c) any solid, hazardous, dangerous, radioactive or toxic chemical, material, waste or substance,
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within the meaning of and regulated by any Environmental Law; (d) any asbestos containing materials in any form or condition; (e) any polychlorinated biphenyls in any form or condition; (f) petroleum, petroleum hydrocarbons, or any fraction or byproducts thereof; or (g) any air pollutant which is so designated by the U.S. EPA as authorized by the Clean Air Act or otherwise regulated by the Clean Air Act.
8. DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
If any of the following events of default occurs, Lender may do one or more of the following: declare Borrower in default, stop making any additional credit available to Borrower, require Borrower to repay its entire debt immediately and without prior notice, and require Borrower to cash collateralize or provide backstop letters of credit for any outstanding Letters of Credit in accordance with Section 1.2(e). If an event which, with notice or the passage of time, will constitute an event of default has occurred and is continuing, Lender has no obligation to make advances or extend additional credit under this Agreement. In addition, if any event of default occurs, Lender shall have all rights, powers and remedies available under any instruments and agreements required by or executed in connection with this Agreement, as well as all rights and remedies available at law or in equity. If an event of default occurs under the section entitled Bankruptcy, below, with respect to Borrower, then the entire debt outstanding under this Agreement will automatically be due immediately.
8.1 Failure to Pay. Borrower fails to make a payment under this Agreement or the promissory note when due.
8.2 Other Agreements. Any default occurs under any other agreement Borrower (or any guarantor) or any of Borrowers related entities or affiliates has with Lender or any affiliate of Lender.
8.3 Cross-default.
(a) Any default occurs under any agreement in connection with any credit Borrower (or any guarantor) or any of Borrowers related entities or affiliates has obtained from anyone else or which Borrower (or any guarantor) or any of Borrowers related entities or affiliates has guaranteed.
(b) Any covenant under the DCE Operating Agreement is violated or any other default occurs under the DCE Operating Agreement.
(c) Borrower takes any action not permitted under the DCE Operating Agreement without the prior written consent of Lender and, until such time as all obligations (collectively the PCB Obligations) of Lender and Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to PlainsCapital Bank (PCB) under the Credit Agreement of even date herewith among Lender, Clean Energy Fuels Corp., and PCB (as amended, the PCB Credit Agreement) have been fully and finally paid and performed (other than indemnities and other reimbursement obligations which survive the termination of the PCB Credit Agreement), without the prior written consent of PCB (which shall not be unreasonably withheld).
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8.4 False Information. Borrower or any guarantor has given Lender false or misleading information or representations.
8.5 Bankruptcy. Borrower, any guarantor, or any general partner of Borrower or of any guarantor files a bankruptcy petition, a bankruptcy petition is filed against any of the foregoing parties, or Borrower, any guarantor, or any general partner of Borrower or of any guarantor makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors.
8.6 Receivers. A receiver or similar official is appointed for a substantial portion of Borrowers or any guarantors business, or the business is terminated, or, if any guarantor is anything other than a natural person, such guarantor is liquidated or dissolved.
8.7 Lien Priority. Lender fails to have an enforceable first lien (except for any prior liens to which Lender has consented in writing) on or security interest in any property given as security for this Agreement (or any guaranty).
8.8 Lawsuits. Any lawsuit or lawsuits are filed on behalf of one or more trade creditors against Borrower or any guarantor in an aggregate amount of $250,000 or more in excess of any insurance coverage.
8.9 Judgments. Any judgments or arbitration awards are entered against Borrower or any guarantor, or Borrower or any guarantor enters into any settlement agreements with respect to any litigation or arbitration, in an aggregate amount of $250,000 or more in excess of any insurance coverage.
8.10 Material Adverse Change. A material adverse change occurs, or is reasonably likely to occur, in Borrowers (or any guarantors) business condition (financial or otherwise), operations, properties or prospects, or ability to repay the credit.
8.11 Government Action. Any government authority takes action that Lender believes materially adversely affects Borrowers or any guarantors financial condition or ability to repay.
8.12 Default under Related Documents. Any default occurs under any guaranty, subordination agreement, security agreement, deed of trust, mortgage, or other document required by or delivered in connection with this Agreement or any such document is no longer in effect, or any guarantor purports to revoke or disavow the guaranty.
8.13 ERISA Plans. Any one or more of the following events occurs with respect to a Plan of Borrower subject to Title IV of ERISA, provided such event or events could reasonably be expected, in the judgment of Lender, to subject Borrower to any tax, penalty or liability (or any combination of the foregoing) which, in the aggregate, could have a material adverse effect on the financial condition of Borrower:
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(a) A reportable event shall occur under Section 4043(c) of ERISA with respect to a Plan.
(b) Any Plan termination (or commencement of proceedings to terminate a Plan) or the full or partial withdrawal from a Plan by Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate.
8.14 Other Breach Under Agreement. A default occurs under any other term or condition of this Agreement not specifically referred to in this Article.
8.15 Change of Control.
(a) Lender and its affiliates cease to (i) directly or indirectly own at least 50% of the outstanding membership interests of Borrower or (ii) control a majority of board of managers.
(b) Cambrain ceases to directly or indirectly own at least 25% of the outstanding membership interests of Borrower.
(c) Any change in ownership of Borrower occurs which is not in compliance with the DCE Operating Agreement.
8.16 Gas Lease. The Borrower ceases to own the leasehold interests provided for in the Lease to Develop Landfill Gas executed on December 12, 1994, by The City of Dallas, a municipal corporation and a political subdivision of the State of Texas, as amended from time to time (the Gas Lease) or at any time amends, terminates, encumbers, subordinates, assigns, or voluntarily surrenders the Gas Lease or the Borrowers rights thereunder without the prior written consent of the Lender and, until such time as all PCB Obligations have been fully and finally paid and performed, PCB.
9. ENFORCING THIS AGREEMENT; MISCELLANEOUS
9.1 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of California. To the extent that Lender has greater rights or remedies under federal law, this section shall not be deemed to deprive Lender of such rights and remedies as may be available under federal law.
9.2 Successors and Assigns.
(a) This Agreement is binding on Borrowers and Lenders successors and assignees. It is hereby expressly acknowledged that following the DCE Restructure, DCE shall assume all of Borrowers obligations under the Loan Agreement and all instruments, documents and agreements executed in connection therewith and all references to Borrower contained herein or in any such instrument, document or agreement shall be deemed to include and refer to DCE. Borrower agrees that it may not assign this Agreement without Lenders prior consent, provided that Lender hereby consents to the DCE Assumption. Lender may sell participations in or assign this loan, and may exchange information about Borrower (including, without limitation, any information regarding any Hazardous Materials) with actual or potential participants or assignees.
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(b) Borrower and Lender hereby acknowledge and agree that concurrently herewith, Lender is collaterally assigning to PCB this Agreement, the promissory note referenced in Section 4.1(a), all security documents and other agreements being executed in connection herewith (collectively, the Loan Documents), and all of Lenders rights, title, liens and interests arising hereunder or thereunder, in order to secure the PCB Obligations. PCB is a third party beneficiary of, and is entitled to rely on, the acknowledgments and agreements of Borrower and Lender set forth in this Section 9.2(b) and 9.7(b).
9.3 Dispute Resolution Provision.
This section, including the subsections below, is referred to as the Dispute Resolution Provision. This Dispute Resolution Provision is a material inducement for the parties entering into this agreement.
(a) This Dispute Resolution Provision concerns the resolution of any controversies or claims between the parties, whether arising in contract, tort or by statute, including but not limited to controversies or claims that arise out of or relate to: (i) this agreement (including any renewals, extensions or modifications); or (ii) any document related to this agreement (collectively a Claim). For the purposes of this Dispute Resolution Provision only, the term parties shall include any parent corporation, subsidiary or affiliate of Lender involved in the servicing, management or administration of any obligation described or evidenced by this agreement.
(b) At the request of any party to this agreement, any Claim shall be resolved by binding arbitration in accordance with the Federal Arbitration Act (Title 9, U.S. Code) (the Act). The Act will apply even though this agreement provides that it is governed by the law of a specified state.
(c) Arbitration proceedings will be determined in accordance with the Act, the then-current rules and procedures for the arbitration of financial services disputes of the American Arbitration Association or any successor thereof (AAA), and the terms of this Dispute Resolution Provision. In the event of any inconsistency, the terms of this Dispute Resolution Provision shall control. If AAA is unwilling or unable to (i) serve as the provider of arbitration or (ii) enforce any provision of this arbitration clause, Lender may designate another arbitration organization with similar procedures to serve as the provider of arbitration.
(d) The arbitration shall be administered by AAA and conducted, unless otherwise required by law, in any U.S. state where real or tangible personal property collateral for this credit is located or if there is no such collateral, in the state specified in the governing law section of this agreement. All Claims shall be determined by one arbitrator; however, if Claims exceed $5,000,000, upon the request of any party, the Claims shall be decided by three arbitrators. All arbitration hearings shall commence within ninety (90) days of the demand for arbitration and close within ninety (90) days of commencement and the award of the arbitrator(s) shall be issued within thirty (30) days of the close of the hearing. However, the arbitrator(s), upon a showing of good cause, may extend the commencement of the hearing for up to an additional sixty (60) days. The arbitrator(s) shall provide a concise written statement of reasons for the award. The arbitration award may be submitted to any court having jurisdiction to be confirmed and have judgment entered and enforced.
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(e) The arbitrator(s) will give effect to statutes of limitation in determining any Claim and may dismiss the arbitration on the basis that the Claim is barred. For purposes of the application of any statutes of limitation, the service on AAA under applicable AAA rules of a notice of Claim is the equivalent of the filing of a lawsuit. Any dispute concerning this arbitration provision or whether a Claim is arbitrable shall be determined by the arbitrator(s), except as set forth at subsection (j) of this Dispute Resolution Provision. The arbitrator(s) shall have the power to award legal fees pursuant to the terms of this agreement.
(f) The procedure described above will not apply if the Claim, at the time of the proposed submission to arbitration, arises from or relates to an obligation to Lender secured by real property. In this case, all of the parties to this agreement must consent to submission of the Claim to arbitration.
(g) To the extent any Claims are not arbitrated, to the extent permitted by law the Claims shall be resolved in court by a judge without a jury, except any Claims which are brought in California state court shall be determined by judicial reference as described below.
(h) Any Claim which is not arbitrated and which is brought in California state court will be resolved by a general reference to a referee (or a panel of referees) as provided in California Code of Civil Procedure Section 638. The referee (or presiding referee of the panel) shall be a retired Judge or Justice. The referee (or panel of referees) shall be selected by mutual written agreement of the parties. If the parties do not agree, the referee shall be selected by the Presiding Judge of the Court (or his or her representative) as provided in California Code of Civil Procedure Section 638 and the following related sections. The referee shall determine all issues in accordance with existing California law and the California rules of evidence and civil procedure. The referee shall be empowered to enter equitable as well as legal relief, provide all temporary or provisional remedies, enter equitable orders that will be binding on the parties and rule on any motion which would be authorized in a trial, including without limitation motions for summary judgment or summary adjudication . The award that results from the decision of the referee(s) will be entered as a judgment in the court that appointed the referee, in accordance with the provisions of California Code of Civil Procedure Sections 644(a) and 645. The parties reserve the right to seek appellate review of any judgment or order, including but not limited to, orders pertaining to class certification, to the same extent permitted in a court of law.
(i) This Dispute Resolution Provision does not limit the right of any party to: (i) exercise self-help remedies, such as but not limited to, setoff; (ii) initiate judicial or non-judicial foreclosure against any real or personal property collateral; (iii) exercise any judicial or power of sale rights, or (iv) act in a court of law to obtain an interim remedy, such as but not limited to, injunctive relief, writ of possession or appointment of a receiver, or additional or supplementary remedies. The filing of a court action is not intended to constitute a waiver of the right of any party, including the suing party, thereafter to require submittal of the Claim to arbitration or judicial reference.
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(j) Any arbitration, judicial reference or trial by a judge of any Claim will take place on an individual basis without resort to any form of class or representative action (the Class Action Waiver). Regardless of anything else in this Dispute Resolution Provision, the validity and effect of the Class Action Waiver may be determined only by a court or referee and not by an arbitrator. The parties to this Agreement acknowledge that the Class Action Waiver is material and essential to the arbitration of any disputes between the parties and is nonseverable from the agreement to arbitrate Claims. If the Class Action Waiver is limited, voided or found unenforceable, then the parties agreement to arbitrate shall be null and void with respect to such proceeding, subject to the right to appeal the limitation or invalidation of the Class Action Waiver. The Parties acknowledge and agree that under no circumstances will a class action be arbitrated.
(k) By agreeing to binding arbitration or judicial reference, the parties irrevocably and voluntarily waive any right they may have to a trial by jury as permitted by law in respect of any Claim. Furthermore, without intending in any way to limit this Dispute Resolution Provision, to the extent any Claim is not arbitrated or submitted to judicial reference, the parties irrevocably and voluntarily waive any right they may have to a trial by jury to the extent permitted by law in respect of such Claim. This waiver of jury trial shall remain in effect even if the Class Action Waiver is limited, voided or found unenforceable. WHETHER THE CLAIM IS DECIDED BY ARBITRATION, BY JUDICIAL REFERENCE, OR BY TRIAL BY A JUDGE, THE PARTIES AGREE AND UNDERSTAND THAT THE EFFECT OF THIS AGREEMENT IS THAT THEY ARE GIVING UP THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
9.4 Severability; Waivers. If any part of this Agreement is not enforceable, the rest of the Agreement may be enforced. Lender retains all rights, even if it makes a loan after default. If Lender waives a default, it may enforce a later default. Any consent or waiver under this Agreement must be in writing.
9.5 Attorneys Fees. Borrower shall reimburse Lender for any reasonable costs and attorneys fees incurred by Lender in connection with the enforcement or preservation of any rights or remedies under this Agreement and any other documents executed in connection with this Agreement, and in connection with any amendment, waiver, workout or restructuring under this Agreement. In the event of a lawsuit or arbitration proceeding, the prevailing party is entitled to recover costs and reasonable attorneys fees incurred in connection with the lawsuit or arbitration proceeding, as determined by the court or arbitrator. In the event that any case is commenced by or against Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code (Title 11, United States Code) or any similar or successor statute, Lender is entitled to recover costs and reasonable attorneys fees incurred by Lender related to the preservation, protection, or enforcement of any rights of Lender in such a case. As used in this section, attorneys fees includes the allocated costs of Lenders in-house counsel.
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9.6 Set-Off.
(a) In addition to any rights and remedies of Lender provided by law, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any event of default under this Agreement, Lender is authorized, at any time, to set off and apply any and all Deposits of Borrower or any guarantor held by Lender against any and all Obligations owing to Lender. The set-off may be made irrespective of whether or not Lender shall have made demand under this Agreement or any guaranty, and although such Obligations may be contingent or unmatured or denominated in a currency different from that of the applicable Deposits.
(b) The set-off may be made without prior notice to Borrower or any other party, any such notice being waived by Borrower (on its own behalf and on behalf of each guarantor) to the fullest extent permitted by law. Lender agrees promptly to notify Borrower after any such set-off and application; provided, however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application.
(c) For the purposes of this section, Deposits means any deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, individual or joint) and any instruments owned by Borrower or any guarantor which come into the possession or custody or under the control of Lender. Obligations means all obligations, now or hereafter existing, of Borrower to Lender under this Agreement and under any other agreement or instrument executed in connection with this Agreement, and the obligations to Lender of any guarantor.
9.7 One Agreement; Modifications.
(a) This Agreement and any related security or other agreements required by this Agreement, collectively:
(i) represent the sum of the understandings and agreements between Lender and Borrower concerning this credit;
(ii) replace any prior oral or written agreements between Lender and Borrower concerning this credit; and
(iii) are intended by Lender and Borrower as the final, complete and exclusive statement of the terms agreed to by them.
In the event of any conflict between this Agreement and any other agreements required by this Agreement, this Agreement will prevail.
(b) Borrower and Lender hereby acknowledge and agree that until such time as all PCB Obligations have been fully and finally paid and performed, without the prior written consent of PCB (which shall not be unreasonably withheld), (i) Borrower and Lender will not enter into any modification, amendment or restatement occurring under the Loan Documents and (ii) Lender will not waive any default or event of default occurring under the Loan Documents.
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9.8 Indemnification. Borrower will indemnify and hold Lender harmless from any loss, liability, damages, judgments, and costs of any kind relating to or arising directly or indirectly out of (a) this Agreement or any document required hereunder, (b) any credit extended or committed by Lender to Borrower hereunder, and (c) any litigation or proceeding related to or arising out of this Agreement, any such document, or any such credit. This indemnity includes but is not limited to attorneys fees (including the allocated cost of in-house counsel). This indemnity extends to Lender, its parent, subsidiaries and all of their directors, officers, employees, agents, successors, attorneys, and assigns. This indemnity will survive repayment of Borrowers obligations to Lender. All sums due to Lender hereunder shall be obligations of Borrower, due and payable immediately without demand.
9.9 Notices. Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement or in another agreement between Lender and Borrower, all notices required under this Agreement shall be personally delivered or sent by first class mail, postage prepaid, or by overnight courier, to the addresses on the signature page of this Agreement, or sent by facsimile to the fax numbers listed on the signature page, or to such other addresses as Lender and Borrower may specify from time to time in writing. Notices and other communications shall be effective (i) if mailed, upon the earlier of receipt or five (5) days after deposit in the U.S. mail, first class, postage prepaid, (ii) if telecopied, when transmitted, or (iii) if hand-delivered, by courier or otherwise (including telegram, lettergram or mailgram), when delivered.
9.10 Headings. Article and section headings are for reference only and shall not affect the interpretation or meaning of any provisions of this Agreement.
9.11 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in as many counterparts as necessary or convenient, and by the different parties on separate counterparts each of which, when so executed, shall be deemed an original but all such counterparts shall constitute but one and the same agreement.
9.12 Borrower Information; Reporting to Credit Bureaus. Borrower authorizes Lender at any time to verify or check any information given by Borrower to Lender, check Borrowers credit references, verify employment, and obtain credit reports. Borrower agrees that Lender shall have the right at all times to disclose and report to credit reporting agencies and credit rating agencies such information pertaining to Borrower and/or all guarantors as is consistent with Lenders policies and practices from time to time in effect.
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9.13 Usury Savings. Borrower and Lender intend to contract in compliance with all state and federal usury laws governing this Agreement, any other instrument, document or agreement executed in connection herewith, and the Loans. Borrower and Lender agree that none of the terms of this Agreement or any other instrument, document or agreement executed in connection herewith shall be construed to require payment of interest at a rate in excess of the maximum interest rate allowed by any applicable state or federal usury laws. If Lender receives sums which constitute interest that would otherwise increase the effective interest on the Loans to a rate in excess of that permitted by any applicable law, then all such sums constituting interest in excess of the maximum lawful rate shall at Lenders option either be credited to the payment of principal or returned to Borrower. The provisions of this paragraph control the other provisions of this Loan Agreement and any other instrument, document or agreement between Borrower and Lender.
9.14 Notice of Final Agreement. THIS WRITTEN LOAN AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER DOCUMENTS EXECUTED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH REPRESENT THE FINAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES.
THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement is duly executed by each of the undersigned as of the date first written above.
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Exhibit 99.4
PROMISSORY NOTE
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned promises to pay to the order of CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation (Lender), the principal amount of FOURTEEN MILLION AND 00/100 DOLLARS ($14,000,000), or such lesser amount as shall equal the then aggregate outstanding Loans made by Lender to the undersigned under the Loan Agreement referred to below, payable as hereinafter set forth. The undersigned promises to pay interest on the principal amount hereof remaining unpaid from time to time from the date hereof until the date of payment in full, payable as hereinafter set forth.
Reference is made to the Loan Agreement of even date herewith, between the undersigned, as Borrower, and Lender (as amended, restated, extended, renewed, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Loan Agreement). Terms defined in the Loan Agreement and not otherwise defined herein are used herein with the meanings given to those terms in the Loan Agreement. Any holder hereof is entitled to all of the rights, remedies, benefits and privileges provided for in the Loan Agreement as originally executed or as it may from time to time be amended, restated, extended, renewed, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time. The Loan Agreement, among other things, contains provisions for acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the happening of certain stated events upon the terms and conditions therein specified.
The principal indebtedness evidenced by this Promissory Note shall be payable as provided in the Loan Agreement and in any event on the last day of the Repayment Period.
Interest shall be payable on the outstanding daily unpaid principal amount of the Loan from the date thereof until payment in full and shall accrue and be payable at the rates and on the dates set forth in the Loan Agreement both before and after default and before and after maturity and judgment.
Each payment hereunder shall be made to Lender in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.1(b) of the Loan Agreement in immediately available funds not later than noon (Pacific time) on the day of payment (which must be a banking day). All payments received after noon (Pacific time) on any particular banking day shall be deemed received on the next succeeding banking day. All payments shall be made in U.S. Dollars.
Lender shall use its best efforts to keep a record of payments of principal and interest received by it with respect to this Promissory Note, and such record shall be presumptive evidence of the amounts owing under this Promissory Note.
The undersigned hereby promises to pay all costs and expenses of any rightful holder hereof incurred in collecting the undersigneds obligations hereunder in accordance with the Loan Agreement or in enforcing or attempting to enforce any of such holders rights hereunder, including reasonable attorneys fees and disbursements, whether or not an action is filed in connection therewith.
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The undersigned hereby waives presentment, demand for payment, dishonor, notice of dishonor, protest, notice of protest and any other notice or formality, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws.
It is hereby expressly acknowledged that following the consummation of the DCE Restructure (as defined in the Loan Agreement), Dallas Clean Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company shall assume all of the undersigneds obligations under the Loan Agreement and all instruments, documents, and agreements executed in connection therewith, including, without limitation, this Promissory Note.
THIS PROMISSORY NOTE SHALL BE DELIVERED TO AND ACCEPTED BY LENDER IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LOCAL LAWS THEREOF.
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Exhibit 99.5
SECURITY AGREEMENT
This Security Agreement (this Agreement) dated as of August 15, 2008, is entered into by CE DALLAS RENEWABLES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (Grantor) in favor of CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation (Lender), with reference to the following facts:
RECITALS
A. Concurrently herewith, Grantor and Lender have entered in the Loan Agreement of even date herewith (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the Loan Agreement), pursuant to which Lender has provided to Grantor financing in an initial aggregate principal amount of up to $14,000,000. All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth for such terms in the Loan Agreement, and to the extent not defined in the Loan Agreement, the meanings set forth in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in California.
B. As a condition to the effectiveness of the Loan Agreement, Grantor is required to execute and deliver this Agreement to Lender.
AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Grantor and Lender hereby covenant and agree as follows:
1. THE SECURITY. Grantor hereby assigns and grants to Lender a security interest in all of Grantors right, title and interest in and to all assets of Grantor, including, without limitation, all of the following property and interests in property of Grantor, whether now owned or existing or hereafter created, acquired or arising and wherever located (Collateral):
(a) Accounts;
(b) Chattel Paper;
(c) Deposit Accounts;
(d) Documents;
(e) Equipment;
(f) Farm Products;
(g) Financial Assets;
(h) Fixtures;
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(i) General Intangibles, including, but not limited to, (i) all patents, and all unpatented or unpatentable inventions; (ii) all trademarks, service marks, and trade names; (iii) all copyrights and literary rights; (iv) all computer software programs; (v) all mask works of semiconductor chip products; (vi) all trade secrets, proprietary information, customer lists, manufacturing, engineering and production plans, drawings, specifications, processes and systems; and all good will connected with or symbolized by any of such general intangibles; all contract rights, documents, applications, licenses, materials and other matters related to such general intangibles; all tangible property embodying or incorporating any such general intangibles; and all chattel paper and instruments relating to such general intangibles;
(j) Goods (including all of its Equipment, Fixtures and Inventory), and all accessions, additions, attachments, improvements, substitutions and replacements thereto and therefor;
(k) Instruments;
(l) Inventory;
(m) Investment Property;
(n) money (of every currency and jurisdiction whatsoever);
(o) Letter-of-Credit Rights;
(p) Supporting Obligations;
(q) all emission allowances, offsets, or credits, whether issued or approved by any governmental or non-governmental entity, and any tax credits generated by the Project; and
(r) to the extent not included in the foregoing, all other personal property of any kind or description;
(s) together with Grantors right, title and interest in and to all books, records, writings, data bases, information and other property relating to, used or useful in connection with, or evidencing, embodying, incorporating or referring to any of the foregoing, including but not limited to any computer-readable memory and any computer hardware or software necessary to process such memory (Books and Records), and all Proceeds, products, offspring, rents, issues, profits and returns of and from any of the foregoing;
provided, that the term Collateral shall not include any contracts, contract rights, permits, licenses, authorizations, instruments, general intangibles or any other Collateral, which by their terms, the terms of any documents, agreements, instruments, permits, licenses, or authorizations relating thereto, or the operation of law may not be assigned or pledged, or
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in which a security interest may not be created or for which any consent for assignment or creation of a security interest therein is required and has not been obtained or which would be breached or terminated (or permits any person to exercise a remedy thereunder) by virtue of a security interest being granted (other than to the extent that any such prohibition or consent requirement would be rendered ineffective pursuant to Divisions 9-406, 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect in the state of California (the Uniform Commercial Code)); provided, however, that the security interest described herein shall attach immediately and any such asset shall immediately be deemed to be Collateral at such time as the restriction prohibiting assignment shall be removed or any condition thereto shall be satisfied or such required finding of suitability or other approval has been obtained.
2. THE INDEBTEDNESS. The Collateral secures and will secure all Indebtedness of Grantor to Lender. Indebtedness means all debts, obligations or liabilities now or hereafter existing, absolute or contingent of Grantor to Lender under the Loan Agreement or any document executed in connection therewtih, whether voluntary or involuntary, whether due or not due, or whether incurred directly or indirectly or acquired by Lender by assignment or otherwise.
3. GRANTORS COVENANTS. Grantor represents, covenants and warrants that, unless compliance is waived by Lender in writing:
(a) Grantor will properly preserve the Collateral; defend the Collateral against any adverse claims and demands; and keep accurate Books and Records.
(b) Grantor was formed under the laws of the state of Delaware. Grantor shall give Lender at least thirty (30) days notice before changing its state of formation. Grantor will notify Lender in writing prior to any change in the location of any Collateral, including the Books and Records.
(c) Grantor will notify Lender in writing prior to any change in Grantors name, identity or business structure.
(d) Unless otherwise agreed, Grantor has not granted and will not grant any security interest in any of the Collateral except to Lender, and will keep the Collateral free of all liens, claims, security interests and encumbrances of any kind or nature except the security interest of Lender.
(e) Grantor will promptly notify Lender in writing of any event which affects the value of the Collateral, the ability of Grantor or Lender to dispose of the Collateral, or the rights and remedies of Lender in relation thereto, including, but not limited to, the levy of any legal process against any Collateral and the adoption of any marketing order, arrangement or procedure affecting the Collateral, whether governmental or otherwise.
(f) Grantor shall pay all costs necessary to preserve, defend, enforce and collect the Collateral, including but not limited to taxes, assessments, insurance premiums, repairs, rent, storage costs and expenses of sales, and any costs to perfect
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Lenders security interest (collectively, the Collateral Costs). Without waiving Grantors default for failure to make any such payment, Lender at its option may pay any such Collateral Costs, and discharge encumbrances on the Collateral, and such Collateral Costs payments shall be a part of the Indebtedness and bear interest at the rate set out in the Indebtedness. Grantor agrees to reimburse Lender on demand for any Collateral Costs so incurred.
(g) Until Lender exercises its rights to make collection, Grantor will diligently collect all Collateral.
(h) If any Collateral is or becomes the subject of any registration certificate, certificate of deposit or negotiable document of title, including any warehouse receipt or bill of lading, Grantor shall immediately deliver such document to Lender, together with any necessary endorsements.
(i) Grantor will not sell, lease, agree to sell or lease, or otherwise dispose of any Collateral except with the prior written consent of Lender; provided, however, that Grantor may sell inventory in the ordinary course of business.
(j) Grantor will maintain and keep in force all insurance required pursuant to the Loan Agreement.
(k) Grantor will not attach any Collateral to any real property or fixture in a manner which might cause such Collateral to become a part thereof unless Grantor first obtains the written consent of any owner, holder of any lien on the real property or fixture, or other person having an interest in such property to the removal by Lender of the Collateral from such real property or fixture. Such written consent shall be in form and substance acceptable to Lender and shall provide that Lender has no liability to such owner, holder of any lien, or any other person.
(l) Schedule 1 to this Agreement is a complete list of all patents, trademark and service mark registrations, copyright registrations, mask work registrations, and all applications therefor, in which Grantor has any right, title, or interest, throughout the world. To the extent required by Lender in its discretion, Grantor will promptly notify Lender of any acquisition (by adoption and use, purchase, license or otherwise) of any patent, trademark or service mark registration, copyright registration, mask work registration, and applications therefor, and unregistered trademarks and service marks and copyrights, throughout the world, which are granted or filed or acquired after the date hereof or which are not listed on Schedule 1. Grantor authorizes Lender, without notice to Grantor, to modify this Agreement by amending Schedule 1 to include any such Collateral.
(m) Grantor will, at its expense, diligently prosecute all patent, trademark or service mark or copyright applications pending on or after the date hereof, will maintain in effect all issued patents and will renew all trademark and service mark registrations, including payment of any and all maintenance and renewal fees relating thereto, except for such patents, service marks and trademarks that are being sold,
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donated or abandoned by Grantor pursuant to the terms of its intellectual property management program. Grantor also will promptly make application on any patentable but unpatented inventions, registerable but unregistered trademarks and service marks, and copyrightable but uncopyrighted works. Grantor will at its expense protect and defend all rights in the Collateral against any material claims and demands of all persons other than Lender and will, at its expense, enforce all rights in the Collateral against any and all infringers of the Collateral where such infringement would materially impair the value or use of the Collateral to Grantor or Lender. Grantor will not license or transfer any of the Collateral, except for such licenses as are customary in the ordinary course of Grantors business, or except with Lenders prior written consent.
4. ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL REQUIREMENTS. Grantor agrees that Lender may at its option at any time, whether or not Grantor is in default:
(a) Require Grantor to deliver to Lender (i) copies of or extracts from the Books and Records, and (ii) information on any contracts or other matters affecting the Collateral.
(b) Examine the Collateral, including the Books and Records, and make copies of or extracts from the Books and Records, and for such purposes enter at any reasonable time upon the property where any Collateral or any Books and Records are located.
(c) Require Grantor to deliver to Lender any instruments, chattel paper or letters of credit which are part of the Collateral, and to assign to Lender the proceeds of any such letters of credit.
(d) Notify any account debtors, any buyers of the Collateral, or any other persons of Lenders interest in the Collateral.
5. DEFAULTS. Any one or more of the following shall be a default hereunder:
(a) Any Indebtedness is not paid when due, or any default occurs under any agreement relating to the Indebtedness, including, without limitation, under the Loan Agreement, after giving effect to any applicable grace or cure periods.
(b) Grantor breaches any term, provision, warranty or representation under this Agreement, or under any other obligation of Grantor to Lender, and such breach remains uncured after any applicable cure period.
(c) Lender fails to have an enforceable first lien (except for liens which are permitted under the Loan Agreement) on or security interest in the Collateral.
(d) Any custodian, receiver or trustee is appointed to take possession, custody or control of all or a substantial portion of the property of Grantor or of any guarantor or other party obligated under any Indebtedness.
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(e) Grantor or any guarantor or other party obligated under any Indebtedness becomes insolvent, or is generally not paying or admits in writing its inability to pay its debts as they become due, fails in business, makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, dies, or commences any case, proceeding or other action under any bankruptcy or other law for the relief of, or relating to, debtors.
(f) Any case, proceeding or other action is commenced against Grantor or any guarantor or other party obligated under any Indebtedness under any bankruptcy or other law for the relief of, or relating to, debtors.
(g) Any involuntary lien of any kind or character attaches to any Collateral, except for liens for taxes not yet due.
(h) Grantor has given Lender any false or misleading information or representations.
6. LENDERS REMEDIES AFTER DEFAULT. In the event of any default, Lender may do any one or more of the following, to the extent permitted by law:
(a) Enforce the security interest given hereunder pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code and any other applicable law.
(b) Enforce the security interest of Lender in any deposit account of Grantor.
(c) Require Grantor to obtain Lenders prior written consent to any sale, lease, agreement to sell or lease, or other disposition of any Collateral consisting of inventory.
(d) Require Grantor to segregate all collections and proceeds of the Collateral so that they are capable of identification and deliver daily such collections and proceeds to Lender in kind.
(e) Require Grantor to direct all account debtors to forward all payments and proceeds of the Collateral to a post office box under Lenders exclusive control.
(f) Require Grantor to assemble the Collateral, including the Books and Records, and make them available to Lender at a place designated by Lender.
(g) Enter upon the property where any Collateral, including any Books and Records, are located and take possession of such Collateral and such Books and Records, and use such property (including any buildings and facilities) and any of Grantors equipment, if Lender deems such use necessary or advisable in order to take possession of, hold, preserve, process, assemble, prepare for sale or lease, market for sale or lease, sell or lease, or otherwise dispose of, any Collateral.
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(h) Demand and collect any payments on and proceeds of the Collateral. In connection therewith Grantor irrevocably authorizes Lender to endorse or sign Grantors name on all checks, drafts, collections, receipts and other documents, and to take possession of and open the mail addressed to Grantor and remove therefrom any payments and proceeds of the Collateral.
(i) Grant extensions and compromise or settle claims with respect to the Collateral for less than face value, all without prior notice to Grantor.
(j) Use or transfer any of Grantors rights and interests in any Intellectual Property now owned or hereafter acquired by Grantor, if Lender deems such use or transfer necessary or advisable in order to take possession of, hold, preserve, process, assemble, prepare for sale or lease, market for sale or lease, sell or lease, or otherwise dispose of, any Collateral. Grantor agrees that any such use or transfer shall be without any additional consideration to Grantor. As used in this paragraph, Intellectual Property includes, but is not limited to, all trade secrets, computer software, service marks, trademarks, trade names, trade styles, copyrights, patents, applications for any of the foregoing, customer lists, working drawings, instructional manuals, and rights in processes for technical manufacturing, packaging and labeling, in which Grantor has any right or interest, whether by ownership, license, contract or otherwise.
(k) Have a receiver appointed by any court of competent jurisdiction to take possession of the Collateral. Grantor hereby consents to the appointment of such a receiver and agrees not to oppose any such appointment.
(l) Take such measures as Lender may deem necessary or advisable to take possession of, hold, preserve, process, assemble, insure, prepare for sale or lease, market for sale or lease, sell or lease, or otherwise dispose of, any Collateral, and Grantor hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints Lender as Grantors attorney-in-fact to perform all acts and execute all documents in connection therewith.
(m) Without notice or demand to Grantor, set off and apply against any and all of the Indebtedness any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) and any other indebtedness, at any time held or owing by Lender or any of Lenders agents or affiliates to or for the credit of the account of Grantor or any guarantor or endorser of Grantors Indebtedness.
(n) Exercise any other remedies available to Lender at law or in equity.
(o) Grantor waives all rights and defenses that Grantor may have because any of the Indebtedness is secured by real property. This means, among other things: (i) Lender may enforce this Agreement without first foreclosing on any real or personal property collateral pledged by Grantor; and (ii) if Lender forecloses on any real property collateral pledged by Grantor: (1) the amount of the Indebtedness may be reduced only by the price for which that collateral is sold at the foreclosure sale, even if the collateral is worth more than the sale price, and (2) Lender may enforce this
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Agreement even if Lender, by foreclosing on the real property collateral, has destroyed any right Grantor may have to collect from the other debtors. This is an unconditional and irrevocable waiver of any rights and defenses Grantor may have because any of the Indebtedness is secured by real property. These rights and defenses include, but are not limited to, any rights or defenses based upon Section 580a, 580b, 580d, or 726 of the California Code of Civil Procedure. Grantor waives any right or defense it may have at law or equity, including California Code of Civil Procedure Section 580a, to a fair market value hearing or action to determine a deficiency judgment after a foreclosure. Grantor waives any rights and defenses that are or may become available to Grantor by reason of Sections 2787 to 2855 inclusive, of the California Civil Code.
7. DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROVISION. This Agreement shall be subject to the Dispute Resolution Provision contained in Section 9.3 of the Loan Agreement.
8. MISCELLANEOUS.
(a) Any waiver, express or implied, of any provision hereunder and any delay or failure by Lender to enforce any provision shall not preclude Lender from enforcing any such provision thereafter.
(b) Grantor shall, at the request of Lender, execute and/or deliver such other agreements, documents, instruments, or financing statements in connection with this Agreement as Lender may reasonably deem necessary.
(c) This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of California. To the extent that Lender has greater rights or remedies under federal law, this section shall not be deemed to deprive Lender of such rights and remedies as may be available under federal law.
(d) All rights and remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies otherwise provided by law. Any single or partial exercise of any right or remedy shall not preclude the further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy.
(e) All terms not defined herein or the Loan Agreement are used as set forth in the Uniform Commercial Code.
(f) In the event of any action by Lender to enforce this Agreement or to protect the security interest of Lender in the Collateral, or to take possession of, hold, preserve, process, assemble, insure, prepare for sale or lease, market for sale or lease, sell or lease, or otherwise dispose of, any Collateral, Grantor agrees to pay immediately the costs and expenses thereof, together with reasonable attorneys fees and allocated costs for in-house legal services to the extent permitted by law.
(g) It is hereby expressly acknowledged that following the consummation of the DCE Restructure (as defined in the Loan Agreement), Dallas Clean Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (DCE) shall assume all of Grantors obligations under the Loan Agreement and all instruments, documents, and agreements
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executed in connection therewith, including, without limitation, this Agreement. Following such restructure, DCE shall be deemed to have granted the security interests hereunder, with respect to all of DCEs now or hereafter existing personal property (as defined by the term Collateral), as if DCE was the original Grantor hereunder.
(h) Any and all provisions contained in the Loan Agreement which generally apply to the documents executed in connection therewith shall apply to this Agreement.
9. FINAL AGREEMENT. BY SIGNING THIS DOCUMENT EACH PARTY REPRESENTS AND AGREES THAT: (A) THIS DOCUMENT REPRESENTS THE FINAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF, (B) THIS DOCUMENT SUPERSEDES ANY COMMITMENT LETTER, TERM SHEET, OR OTHER WRITTEN OUTLINE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF, UNLESS SUCH COMMITMENT LETTER, TERM SHEET, OR OTHER WRITTEN OUTLINE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS EXPRESSLY PROVIDES TO THE CONTRARY, (C) THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES, AND (D) THIS DOCUMENT MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF ANY PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OR UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE PARTIES.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement is duly executed by each of the undersigned as of the date first written above.
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Schedule 1
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Exhibit 99.6
PLEDGE AGREEMENT
This PLEDGE AGREEMENT (this Agreement) is entered into by Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (Pledgor) as of August 15, 2008 in favor of Clean Energy, a California corporation (Lender), with reference to following facts:
RECITALS
A. Pursuant to the Loan Agreement of even date herewith (as amended, restated, extended, supplement, or otherwise modified from time to time, the Loan Agreement), between CE Dallas Renewables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (collectively with its successors and assign, including, without limitation, DCE, Borrower) and Lender, Lender has agreed to provide certain credit facilities to Borrower. All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth for such terms in the Loan Agreement, and to the extent not defined in the Loan Agreement, the meanings set forth in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in California (the UCC).
B. As a condition to the availability of the credit facilities referred to above, Pledgor is required to enter into this Agreement and to pledge the collateral as herein described.
C. In connection with this Agreement, Pledgor has entered into the Non-Recourse Guaranty of even date herewith (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the Guaranty) in favor of Lender, pursuant to which Pledgor has guaranteed the obligations of Borrower under Loan Documents.
D. Pledgor is a member of Borrower and as such expects to realize direct and indirect benefits from the availability of the aforementioned credit facilities to Borrower.
AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, Pledgor hereby covenants and agrees as follows:
1. Grant of Security Interest. Pledgor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally grants a security interest in, a lien upon and the right of set-off against, and assigns and transfers to Lender all property referred to in Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein, as hereafter amended or supplemented from time to time (the Collateral).
2. Indebtedness.
(a) The Collateral secures and will secure all Indebtedness of Pledgor to Lender. Each person or entity obligated under any Indebtedness is sometimes referred to in this Agreement as a Debtor.
(b) Indebtedness means:
(i) all debts, obligations or liabilities to Lender, now or hereafter existing or incurred whether absolute or contingent, arising under the Guaranty (including all renewals, increases, extensions, restatements and replacements thereof and amendments and modifications of the foregoing), and
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(ii) all costs, attorneys fees and expenses incurred by Lender in connection with the collection or enforcement of any of the above and/or this Agreement.
3. Pledgors Covenants, Representations and Warranties. Pledgor covenants, represents and warrants that unless compliance is waived by Lender in writing:
(a) Pledgor is the legal and beneficial owner of all the Collateral free and clear of any and all liens, encumbrances, or interests of any third parties other than the security interest of Lender, and will keep the Collateral free of all liens, claims, security interests and encumbrances of any kind or nature, whether voluntary or involuntary, except the security interest of Lender.
(b) Pledgor shall, at Pledgors expense, take all actions necessary or advisable from time to time to maintain the first priority and perfection of the security interest of Lender in the Collateral and shall not take any actions that would alter, impair or eliminate said priority or perfection.
(c) Pledgor agrees to pay prior to delinquency all taxes, charges, liens and assessments against the Collateral, and upon the failure of Pledgor to do so, Lender at its option may pay any of them and shall be the sole judge of the legality or validity thereof and the amount necessary to discharge the same.
(d) If any of the Collateral is margin stock as defined in Regulation U promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States (FRB), Pledgor will provide Lender a properly executed Form U-1 Purpose Statement. Lender and Pledgor will comply with the requirements and restrictions imposed by Regulation U.
(e) Pledgors exact legal name is correctly set forth on the signature page hereof. Pledgor will notify Lender in writing at least 30 days prior to any change in Pledgors name or identity.
(f) Pledgor is incorporated in or organized under the laws of the state of Delaware. Pledgor shall give Lender at least thirty (30) days notice before changing the location of its residence or its chief executive office, type of organization, business structure or state of incorporation or organization.
4. Lender Appointed Attorney In Fact. Pledgor authorizes and irrevocably appoints Lender as Pledgors true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full power of substitution to take any action and execute or otherwise authenticate any record or other documentation that Lender considers necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, including but not limited to, the following actions: (a) to endorse, receive, accept and collect all checks, drafts, other payment orders and instruments representing or included in the Collateral or representing any payment, dividend or distribution relating to any Collateral or to take any other action to enforce, collect or compromise any of the Collateral; (b) to transfer any Collateral (including converting physical certificates to book-entry holdings) into the name of Lender or its nominee or any broker-dealer and to execute any control agreement covering any Collateral on Pledgors behalf and as attorney-in-fact for Pledgor in order to perfect Lenders first priority and continuing
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security interest in the Collateral and in order to provide Lender with control of the Collateral, and Pledgors signature on this Agreement or other authentication of this Agreement shall constitute an irrevocable direction by Pledgor to any bank, custodian, broker dealer, any other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary holding any Collateral or any issuer of any letters of credit to comply with any instructions or entitlement orders, of Lender without further consent of Pledgor; (c) to participate in any recapitalization, reclassification, reorganization, consolidation, redemption, stock split, merger or liquidation of any issuer of securities which constitute Collateral, and in connection therewith Lender may deposit or surrender control of the Collateral, accept money or other property in exchange for the Collateral, and take such action as it deems proper in connection therewith, and any money or property received on account of or in exchange for the Collateral shall be applied to the Indebtedness or held by Lender thereafter as Collateral pursuant to the provisions hereof; (d) to exercise any right, privilege or option pertaining to any Collateral, but Lender has no obligation to do so; (e) to file any claims, take any actions or institute any proceedings which Lender determines to be necessary or appropriate to collect or preserve the Collateral or to enforce Lenders rights with respect to the Collateral; (f) to execute in the name or otherwise authenticate on behalf of Pledgor any record reasonably believed necessary or appropriate by Lender for compliance with laws, rules or regulations applicable to any Collateral, or in connection with exercising Lenders rights under this Agreement; (g) to file any financing statement relating to this Agreement electronically, and Lenders transmission of Pledgors signature on and authentication of the financing statement shall constitute Pledgors signature on and authentication of the financing statement; (h) to make any compromise or settlement it deems desirable or proper with reference to the Collateral; (i) to do and take any and all actions with respect to the Collateral and to perform any of Pledgors obligations under this Agreement; and (j) to execute any documentation reasonably believed necessary by Lender for compliance with Rule 144 or any other restrictions, laws, rules or regulations applicable to any Collateral hereunder that constitutes restricted or control securities under the securities laws. The foregoing appointments are irrevocable and coupled with an interest and shall survive the death or disability of Pledgor and shall not be revoked without Lenders written consent. To the extent permitted by law, Pledgor hereby ratifies all said attorney-in-fact shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.
5. Voting Rights.
(a) So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing and Lender has not delivered the notice specified in subsection (b) below, Pledgor shall be entitled to exercise any and all voting and other consensual rights pertaining to the Collateral or any part thereof for any purpose not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement or any document or agreement executed in connection herewith.
(b) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, at the option of Lender exercised in a writing sent to Pledgor, all rights of Pledgor to exercise the voting and other consensual rights which it would otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant to subsection (a) above shall cease, and Lender shall thereupon have the sole right to exercise such voting and other consensual rights.
6. Events of Default; Remedies.
(a) An Event of Default shall mean the occurrence of any event of default under any Loan Document.
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(b) If an Event of Default occurs, Lender may do any one or more of the following, to the extent permitted by law:
(i) Declare any Indebtedness immediately due and payable, without notice or demand.
(ii) Exercise as to any or all of the Collateral all the rights, powers and remedies of an owner, subject to the Section entitled VOTING RIGHTS.
(iii) Enforce the security interest given hereunder pursuant to the UCC and any other applicable law.
(iv) Sell all or any part of the Collateral at public or private sale in accordance with the UCC, without advertisement, in such manner and order as Lender may elect. Lender may purchase the Collateral for its own account at any such sale. Lender shall give Pledgor such notice of any public or private sale as may be required by the UCC, provided that to the extent notice of any such sale is required by the UCC or other applicable law, Pledgor agrees that at least 10 days notice to Pledgor of the time and place of any public sale or the time after which any private sale is to be made shall constitute reasonable notification and provided further that, if Lender fails to comply with this sentence in any respect, its liability for such failure shall be limited to the liability (if any) imposed on it as a matter of law under the UCC or other applicable law. Pledgor acknowledges that Collateral may be sold at a loss to Pledgor, and that, in such event, Lender shall have no liability or responsibility to Pledgor for such loss. Pledgor further acknowledges that a private sale may result in prices and other terms less favorable to the seller than if such sale were a public sale and, notwithstanding such circumstances, agrees that no such private sale shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be deemed not to be commercially reasonable solely as a result of such prices and other sale terms. Upon any such sale, Lender shall have the right to deliver, assign and transfer to the buyer thereof the Collateral so sold. Each buyer at any such sale shall hold the Collateral so sold absolutely and free from any claim or right of whatsoever kind, including any equity or right of redemption of Pledgor that may be waived or any other right or claim of Pledgor, and Pledgor, to the extent permitted by law, hereby specifically waives all rights of redemption, stay or appraisal that Pledgor has or may have under any law now existing or hereafter adopted.
Without limiting any other rights and remedies available to Lender, Pledgor expressly acknowledges and agrees that with respect to Collateral consisting of notes, bonds or other securities which are not sold on a recognized market, Lender shall be deemed to have conducted a commercially reasonable sale of such Collateral if (a) such sale is conducted by any nationally recognized broker-dealer (including any affiliate of Lender), investment banker or any other method common in the securities industry, and (b) if the purchaser is Lender or any affiliate of Lender, the sale price received by Lender in connection with such sale is reasonably supported by quotations received from one or more other nationally recognized broker-dealers, investment bankers or other financial institutions.
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(v) Exercise any other remedy provided under this Agreement or by any applicable law.
(vi) Comply with any applicable state or federal law requirements in connection with a disposition of the Collateral and such compliance will not be considered to affect adversely the commercial reasonableness of any sale or other disposition of the Collateral.
(vii) Sell the Collateral without giving any warranties as to the Collateral. Lender may specifically disclaim any warranties of title or the like. This procedure will not be considered to affect adversely the commercial reasonableness of any sale or other disposition of the Collateral.
7. Right to Cure; Limitation On Lenders Duties. If Pledgor fails to perform any agreement contained herein, Lender may perform or cause performance of such agreement and the expenses of Lender incurred in connection therewith shall be payable by Pledgor or Debtor under the Section entitled COSTS. Any powers conferred on Lender hereunder are solely to protect its interest in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon it to exercise any such powers. Except for reasonable care in the custody of any Collateral in its possession and the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder, Lender shall have no duty as to any Collateral or as to the taking of any necessary steps to preserve rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining to any Collateral. Lender shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody and preservation of the Collateral in its possession if the Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which Lender accords its own property, it being understood that Lender shall not have any responsibility for (a) ascertaining, exercising or taking other action or giving Pledgor notice with respect to subscription rights, calls, conversions, exchanges, maturities, lenders or other matters relative to any Collateral, whether or not Lender has or is deemed to have knowledge of such matters, or (b) taking any necessary steps to preserve rights against any parties with respect to any Collateral. Lender shall not be liable for any loss to the Collateral resulting from acts of God, war, civil commotion, fire, earthquake, or other disaster or for any other loss or damage to the Collateral except to the extent such other loss or damage is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from Lenders gross negligence or willful misconduct.
8. Waivers. Lender shall be under no duty or obligation whatsoever and Pledgor waives any right to require Lender to (i) make or give any presentment, demands for performances, notices of nonperformance, protests, notices of protest or notices of dishonor in connection with any obligations or evidences of indebtedness held by Lender as Collateral, or in connection with any obligation or evidences of indebtedness which constitute in whole or in part the Indebtedness, (ii) proceed against any person or entity, (iii) proceed against or exhaust any collateral, or (iv) pursue any other remedy in Lenders power; and Pledgor waives any defense arising by reason of any disability or other defense of Debtor or any other person, or by reason of the cessation from any cause whatsoever of the liability of Debtor or any other person. Until the Indebtedness is paid in full, Pledgor waives any right of subrogation, reimbursement, indemnification, and contribution (contractual, statutory or otherwise), including without limitation any claim or right of subrogation under the Bankruptcy Code (Title 11 of the U.S. Code) or any successor statute, arising from the existence or performance of this Agreement, and Pledgor waives any right to enforce any remedy which Lender now has or may hereafter have against Debtor or against any other person and waives any benefit of and any right to participate in any Collateral or security whatsoever now or hereafter held by Lender. If Pledgor is not also a Debtor with respect to a specified Indebtedness, Pledgor authorizes Lender without notice or
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demand and without affecting Pledgors liability hereunder, from time to time to: (i) renew, extend, accelerate or otherwise change the time for payment of or otherwise change the terms of the Indebtedness or any part thereof, including increase or decrease of the rate of interest thereon; (ii) take and hold security, other than the Collateral, for the payment of the Indebtedness or any part thereof, and exchange, enforce, waive and release the Collateral or any part thereof or any such other security; and (iii) release or substitute Debtor or any one or more of them, or any of the endorsers or guarantors of the Indebtedness or any part thereof, or any other parties thereto and Pledgor consents to the taking of, or failure to take, any action by Lender which might in any manner or to any extent vary the risks of Pledgor under this Agreement or which, but for this provision, might operate as a discharge of Pledgor. Pledgor agrees that it is solely responsible for keeping itself informed as to the financial condition of Debtor and of all circumstances which bear upon the risk of nonpayment or the risk of a margin call or liquidation of the Collateral.
9. Transfer, Delivery and Return of Collateral.
(a) Pledgor shall immediately deliver or cause to be delivered to Lender (i) any certificates or instruments now or hereafter representing or evidencing Collateral and such certificates and instruments shall be in suitable form for transfer without restriction or stop order by delivery, or shall be accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment in blank in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, and (ii) in the same form as received (with any necessary endorsement), all dividends and other distributions paid or payable in cash in respect of any Collateral and any such amounts, if received by Pledgor, shall be received in trust for the benefit of Lender and be segregated from the other property or funds of Pledgor.
(b) Lender may at any time deliver the Collateral or any part thereof to Pledgor and the receipt by Pledgor shall be a complete and full acquittance for the Collateral so delivered, and Lender shall thereafter be discharged from any liability or responsibility therefor.
(c) Upon the transfer of all or any part of the Indebtedness, Lender may transfer all or any part of the Collateral and shall be fully discharged thereafter from all liability and responsibility with respect to such Collateral so transferred, and the transferee shall be vested with all the rights and powers of Lender hereunder with respect to such Collateral so transferred; but with respect to any Collateral not so transferred Lender shall retain all rights and powers hereby given. Pledgor agrees that Lender may disclose to any prospective purchaser or transferee and any purchaser or transferee of all or part of the Indebtedness any and all information in Lenders possession concerning Pledgor, this Agreement and the Collateral.
10. Continuing Agreement and Powers.
(a) This is a continuing Agreement and all the rights, powers and remedies hereunder shall, unless otherwise limited herein, apply to all past, present and future Indebtedness of Debtor or any one or more of them to Lender, including that arising under successive transactions which shall either continue the Indebtedness, increase or decrease it, or from time to time create new Indebtedness after all or any prior Indebtedness has been satisfied, and notwithstanding the death, incapacity, cessation of business, dissolution or bankruptcy of Debtor or any one or more of them, or any other event or proceeding affecting Debtor or any one or more of them.
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(b) Until all Indebtedness shall have been paid in full and Lender shall have no obligation to extend credit to any Debtor, the power of sale and all other rights, powers and remedies granted to Lender hereunder shall continue to exist and may be exercised by Lender at the time specified hereunder irrespective of the fact that the Indebtedness or any part thereof may have become barred by any statute of limitations, or that the personal liability of Debtor or any one or more of them may have ceased. Pledgor waives the benefit of any statute of limitations as applied to this Agreement.
11. Costs. To the extent permitted by law, all advances, charges, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys fees, incurred or paid by Lender in exercising any right, power or remedy conferred by this Agreement or in the enforcement thereof shall become a part of the Indebtedness secured hereunder and shall be paid to Lender by Debtor and Pledgor immediately and without demand, with interest thereon at an annual rate equal to the highest rate of interest of any Indebtedness secured by this Agreement (or, if there is no such interest rate, at the maximum interest rate permitted by law for interest on judgments). Such costs and attorneys fees shall include the allocated cost of in-house counsel to the extent permitted by law.
12. Notices. Unless otherwise provided or agreed to herein or required by law, notice and communications provided for in this Agreement shall be delivered in the manner provided for in the Guaranty.
13. Dispute Resolution Provision. This Agreement and any claims arising hereunder shall be subject to Dispute Resolution Provision contained in the Guaranty.
14. Indemnity. Pledgor shall indemnify, hold harmless and defend Lender and its directors, officers, agents and employees, from and against any and all claims, actions, obligations, liabilities and expenses, including defense costs, investigative fees and costs, and legal fees and damages arising from their execution of or performance under this Agreement or any control agreement executed by Lender in connection with the Collateral, except to the extent that such claim, action, obligation, liability or expense is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such indemnified person. This indemnification shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
15. Miscellaneous.
(a) This Agreement (i) may be waived, altered, modified or amended only by an instrument in writing, duly executed by the parties hereto, and (ii) may be executed in any number of identical counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original for all purposes and all of which constitute, collectively, one agreement; but, in making proof of this Agreement, it shall not be necessary to produce or account for more than one such counterpart. Any waiver, express or implied, of any provision hereof and any delay or failure by Lender to enforce any provision shall not preclude Lender from enforcing any such provision thereafter.
(b) Pledgor hereby irrevocably authorizes Lender to file one or more financing statements describing all or part of the Collateral, and continuation statements, or amendments thereto, relative to all or part of the Collateral as authorized by applicable law. Such financing statements, continuation statements and amendments will contain any other information required by the UCC for the sufficiency or filing office acceptance of any financing statement, continuation statement or amendment, including whether Pledgor is an organization, the type of organization and any organizational identification number issued to Pledgor. Pledgor agrees to furnish any such information to Lender promptly upon request. Pledgor also ratifies its authorization for Lender to have filed any initial financing statement or amendments thereto filed prior to the date hereof.
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(c) From time to time, Pledgor and Debtor shall, at the request of Lender, execute such other agreements, documents or instruments or take any other actions in connection with this Agreement as Lender may reasonably deem necessary to evidence or perfect the security interests granted herein, to maintain the first priority of the security interests, or to effectuate the rights granted to Lender herein, but their failure to do so shall not limit or affect any security interest or any other rights of Lender in and to the Collateral. Pledgor will execute and deliver to Lender any stock powers, instructions to any securities intermediary, issuer or transfer agent, proxies, or any other documents of transfer that Lender requests in order to perfect, obtain control or otherwise protect Lenders security interest in the Collateral or to effect Lenders rights under this Agreement. Such powers or documents may be executed in blank or completed prior to execution, as requested by Lender.
(d) This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California. To the extent that Lender has greater rights or remedies under federal law, whether as a national bank or otherwise, this paragraph shall not be deemed to deprive Lender of such rights and remedies as may be available under federal law. Jurisdiction and venue for any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be the forum appropriate for such action or proceeding against Debtor, to which jurisdiction Pledgor irrevocably submits and to which venue Pledgor waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any defense asserting an inconvenient forum in connection therewith.
(e) This Agreement shall benefit Lenders successors and assigns and shall bind Pledgors successors and assigns, except that Pledgor may not assign its rights and obligations under this Agreement. This Agreement shall bind all parties who become bound as a Debtor with respect to the Indebtedness.
(f) All rights and remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies otherwise provided by law. Any single or partial exercise of any right or remedy shall not preclude the further exercise of any other right or remedy.
(g) In all cases where more than one party executes this Agreement, all words used herein in the singular shall be deemed to have been used in the plural where the context and construction so require, and all obligations and undertakings hereunder of such parties are joint and several.
(h) The illegality, invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Agreement shall not in any way affect or impair the legality, validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement.
(i) This Agreement and any other documents executed or delivered in connection herewith constitute the entire agreement of the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and shall supersede any prior expressions of intent or understandings with respect to this transaction.
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16. FINAL AGREEMENT. BY SIGNING THIS DOCUMENT EACH PARTY REPRESENTS AND AGREES THAT: (A) THIS DOCUMENT REPRESENTS THE FINAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF, (B) THIS DOCUMENT SUPERSEDES ANY COMMITMENT LETTER, TERM SHEET, OR OTHER WRITTEN OUTLINE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF, UNLESS SUCH COMMITMENT LETTER, TERM SHEET, OR OTHER WRITTEN OUTLINE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS EXPRESSLY PROVIDES TO THE CONTRARY, (C) THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES, AND (D) THIS DOCUMENT MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF ANY PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OR UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE PARTIES.
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NOTICE OF PLEDGE
TO: CE Dallas Renewables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the Company)
Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to a Pledge Agreement of even date with this Notice (the Agreement), from the undersigned (the Pledgor), to Clean Energy, a California corporation (Lender), Pledgor has pledged and assigned to Lender and granted to Lender a continuing first priority security interest in, all of its right, title and interest, whether now existing or hereafter arising our acquired, in, to, and under the Collateral. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the respective meanings specified in the Agreement.
Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company is hereby authorized and directed, and Company hereby agrees, to:
(a) register on its books Pledgors pledge to Lender of the Collateral; and
(b) upon the occurrence of an Event of Default (as defined in the Agreement) (or prior thereto, as may be required under the Agreement) make direct payment to Lender of any amounts due or to become due to Pledgor that are attributable, directly or indirectly, to Pledgors ownership of the Collateral.
(c) Pledgor hereby directs Company to, and Company hereby agrees to, comply with instructions originated by the Lender with respect to the Collateral without further consent of the Pledgor. It is the intention of the foregoing to grant control to Lender within the meaning of Articles 8 and 9 of the UCC, to the extent the same may be applicable to the Collateral.
(d) Pledgor hereby directs Company, and Company hereby agrees, (i) not to take any action to cause any membership interest of the Collateral to be or become a security within the meaning of, or to be governed by, Article 8 (Investment Securities) of the UCC as in effect under the laws of any state having jurisdiction, and (ii) not to opt in or to take any other action seeking to establish any membership interest of the Collateral as a security and (iii) not to certificate any membership interest of the Collateral.
Pledgor hereby requests the Company to indicate its acceptance of this Notice and consent to and confirmation of its terms and provisions by signing a copy of this Notice where indicated below and returning it to Lender.
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Exhibit A to Pledge Agreement
Description of Collateral
Any and all property of Pledgor now or hereafter pledged and/or delivered to Lender, and includes, without limitation, the Pledged Membership Interests, any certificates representing or evidencing the same, any and all proceeds of any of the foregoing, any and all collections, dividends (whether in cash, stock or otherwise), distributions, redemption payments, liquidation payments, interest or premiums with respect to any of the foregoing, and any and all rights and benefits, but no duty or obligation, of Pledgor under all agreements, documents and instruments relating to the Pledged Membership Interests, including all rights under operating, management, partnership and stockholder agreements.
Pledged Membership Interests means (a) any and all membership or other equity interests in Borrower now or hereafter owned by Pledgor (which, as of the date of this Agreement, equals 30% of the total issued and outstanding membership interests issued by Borrower), (b) any and all shares or interests now or hereafter issued in substitution, exchange or replacement for any of the foregoing membership interests, or with respect thereto, (c) any and all warrants, options or other rights to subscribe to or acquire any additional membership or other equity interests in Borrower owned by Pledgor, and (d) any and all membership or other equity interests and the certificates or other written evidences representing such equity interests and any interest of Pledgor in the entries on the books of any securities intermediary pertaining thereto now or hereafter acquired by Pledgor in Borrower.
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Exhibit 99.7
NON-RECOURSE GUARANTY
This Non-Recourse Guaranty is entered into by Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (Guarantor) as of August 15, 2008 in favor of Clean Energy, a California corporation (Lender), with reference to following facts:
RECITALS
A. Pursuant to the Loan Agreement of even date herewith (as amended, restated, extended, supplement, or otherwise modified from time to time, the Loan Agreement), between CE Dallas Renewables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (collectively with its successors and assign, including, without limitation, DCE, Borrower) and Lender, Lender has agreed to provide certain credit facilities to Borrower. All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth for such terms in the Loan Agreement.
B. As a condition to the availability of the credit facilities referred to above, Guarantor is required to enter into this Guaranty and to guaranty the obligations as hereinafter provided.
C. In connection with this Guaranty, Guarantor has entered into the Pledge Agreement of even date herewith (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the Pledge Agreement) in favor of Lender, pursuant to which Guarantor has pledged the collateral described therein in order to secure Guarantors obligations hereunder.
D. Guarantor is a member of Borrower and as such expects to realize direct and indirect benefits from the availability of the aforementioned credit facilities to Borrower.
AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, Guarantor hereby covenants and agrees as follows:
1. The Guaranty. Guarantor hereby unconditionally, absolutely and irrevocably guarantees the full and prompt payment and performance of all Indebtedness of Borrower to Lender when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter. The liability of Guarantor under this Guaranty is not limited as to the principal amount of the Indebtedness guaranteed and includes, without limitation, liability for all interest, fees, indemnities (including, without limitation, hazardous waste indemnities), and other costs and expenses relating to or arising out of the Indebtedness now or hereafter owing from Borrower to Lender. The liability of Guarantor is continuing and relates to any Indebtedness, including that arising under successive transactions which shall either continue the Indebtedness or from time to time renew it after it has been satisfied. This Guaranty is cumulative and does not supersede any other outstanding guaranties, and the liability of Guarantor under this Guaranty is exclusive of Guarantors liability under any other guaranties signed by Guarantor. Guarantors liability hereunder shall not exceed at any one time the largest amount during the period commencing with Guarantors execution of this Guaranty and thereafter that would not render Guarantors obligations hereunder subject to avoidance under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code (Title 11, United States Code) or any comparable provisions of any applicable state law. This Guaranty is a guaranty of payment and performance when due and not of collection.
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2. Non-Recourse. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Guaranty to the contrary, the only recourse of Lender for the satisfaction of the liability of Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be to foreclose upon the collateral pledged by Guarantor to Lender under the Pledge Agreement, it being the express intention of Guarantor and Lender that in no event shall Lender seek any monetary deficiency judgment against Guarantor for the payment of the Indebtedness.
3. Definitions. The following terms shall have the definitions set forth below:
(a) Loan Documents shall mean the Loan Agreement, and any and all promissory notes, deeds of trust, mortgages, security agreements, agreements, instruments, and other documents executed in connection with the Loan Agreement, all as now in effect and as hereafter amended, restated, extended, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time.
(b) Indebtedness shall mean any and all debts, liabilities, and obligations of Borrower to Lender arising under or related to the Loan Documents, now or hereafter existing, whether voluntary or involuntary and however arising, whether direct or indirect or acquired by Lender by assignment, succession, or otherwise, whether due or not due, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, determined or undetermined, held or to be held by Lender for its own account or as agent for another or others, whether Borrower may be liable individually or jointly with others, whether recovery upon such debts, liabilities, and obligations may be or hereafter become barred by any statute of limitations, and whether such debts, liabilities, and obligations may be or hereafter become otherwise unenforceable. Indebtedness includes, without limitation, all obligations of Borrower to Lender for reasonable attorneys fees and all other costs and expenses incurred by Lender in the collection or enforcement of any debts, liabilities, and obligations of Borrower to Lender.
4. Obligations Independent. The obligations hereunder are independent of the obligations of Borrower or any other guarantor, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against Guarantor whether action is brought against Borrower or any other guarantor or whether Borrower or any other guarantor be joined in any such action or actions. Anyone executing this Guaranty shall be bound by its terms without regard to execution by anyone else.
5. Rights of Lender. Guarantor authorizes Lender, without notice or demand and without affecting its liability hereunder, from time to time to:
(a) renew, compromise, extend, accelerate, or otherwise change the time for payment, or otherwise change the terms, of the Indebtedness or any part thereof, including increase or decrease of the rate of interest thereon, or otherwise change the terms of any Loan Documents;
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(b) receive and hold security for the payment of this Guaranty or any Indebtedness and exchange, enforce, waive, release, fail to perfect, sell, or otherwise dispose of any such security;
(c) apply such security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as Lender in its discretion may determine;
(d) release or substitute any one or more of any endorsers or other guarantors of any of the Indebtedness; and
(e) permit the Indebtedness to exceed Guarantors liability under this Guaranty, and Guarantor agrees that any amounts received by Lender from any source other than Guarantor shall be deemed to be applied first to any portion of the Indebtedness not guaranteed by Guarantor.
6. Guaranty to be Absolute. Guarantor agrees that until the Indebtedness has been paid in full and any commitments of Lender or facilities provided by Lender with respect to the Indebtedness have been terminated, Guarantor shall not be released by or because of the taking, or failure to take, any action that might in any manner or to any extent vary the risks of Guarantor under this Guaranty or that, but for this paragraph, might discharge or otherwise reduce, limit, or modify Guarantors obligations under this Guaranty. Guarantor waives and surrenders any defense to any liability under this Guaranty based upon any such action, including but not limited to any action of Lender described in the immediately preceding paragraph of this Guaranty. It is the express intent of Guarantor that Guarantors obligations under this Guaranty are and shall be absolute and unconditional.
7. Guarantors Waivers of Certain Rights and Certain Defenses. Guarantor waives:
(a) any right to require Lender to proceed against Borrower, proceed against or exhaust any security for the Indebtedness, or pursue any other remedy in Lenders power whatsoever;
(b) any defense arising by reason of any disability or other defense of Borrower, or the cessation from any cause whatsoever of the liability of Borrower;
(c) any defense based on any claim that Guarantors obligations exceed or are more burdensome than those of Borrower; and
(d) the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting Guarantors liability hereunder.
No provision or waiver in this Guaranty shall be construed as limiting the generality of any other waiver contained in this Guaranty.
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8. Waiver of Subrogation. Until the Indebtedness has been paid in full and any commitments of Lender or facilities provided by Lender with respect to the Indebtedness have been terminated, even though the Indebtedness may be in excess of Guarantors liability hereunder, Guarantor waives to the extent permitted by applicable law any right of subrogation, reimbursement, indemnification, and contribution (contractual, statutory, or otherwise) including, without limitation, any claim or right of subrogation under the Bankruptcy Code (Title 11, United States Code) or any successor statute, arising from the existence or performance of this Guaranty, and Guarantor waives to the extent permitted by applicable law any right to enforce any remedy that Lender now has or may hereafter have against Borrower, and waives any benefit of, and any right to participate in, any security now or hereafter held by Lender.
9. Waiver of Notices. Guarantor waives all presentments, demands for performance, notices of nonperformance, protests, notices of protest, notices of dishonor, notices of intent to accelerate, notices of acceleration, notices of any suit or any other action against Borrower or any other person, any other notices to any party liable on any Loan Document (including Guarantor), notices of acceptance of this Guaranty, notices of the existence, creation, or incurring of new or additional Indebtedness to which this Guaranty applies or any other Indebtedness of Borrower to Lender, and notices of any fact that might increase Guarantors risk.
10. Waivers of Other Rights and Defenses.
(a) Guarantor waives any rights and defenses that are or may become available to Guarantor by reason of Sections 2787 to 2855, inclusive, of the California Civil Code.
(b) Guarantor waives all rights and defenses that Guarantor may have because any of the Indebtedness is secured by real property. This means, among other things: (i) Lender may collect from Guarantor without first foreclosing on any real or personal property collateral pledged by Borrower; and (ii) if Lender forecloses on any real property collateral pledged by Borrower: (1) the amount of the Indebtedness may be reduced only by the price for which that collateral is sold at the foreclosure sale, even if the collateral is worth more than the sale price, and (2) Lender may collect from Guarantor even if Lender, by foreclosing on the real property collateral, has destroyed any right Guarantor may have to collect from Borrower. This is an unconditional and irrevocable waiver of any rights and defenses Guarantor may have because any of the Indebtedness is secured by real property. These rights and defenses include, but are not limited to, any rights or defenses based upon Section 580a, 580b, 580d, or 726 of the California Code of Civil Procedure.
(c) Guarantor waives any right or defense it may have at law or equity, including California Code of Civil Procedure Section 580a, to a fair market value hearing or action to determine a deficiency judgment after a foreclosure.
11. Subordination. Any obligations of Borrower to Guarantor, now or hereafter existing, including but not limited to any obligations to Guarantor as subrogee of Lender or resulting from Guarantors performance under this Guaranty, are hereby subordinated to the Indebtedness. In addition to Guarantors waiver of any right of subrogation as set forth in this
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Guaranty with respect to any obligations of Borrower to Guarantor as subrogee of Lender, Guarantor agrees that, if Lender so requests, Guarantor shall not demand, take, or receive from Borrower, by setoff or in any other manner, payment of any other obligations of Borrower to Guarantor until the Indebtedness has been paid in full and any commitments of Lender or facilities provided by Lender with respect to the Indebtedness have been terminated, unless expressly permitted by the Loan Documents. If any payments are received by Guarantor in violation of such waiver or agreement, such payments shall be received by Guarantor as trustee for Lender and shall be paid over to Lender on account of the Indebtedness, but without reducing or affecting in any manner the liability of Guarantor under the other provisions of this Guaranty. Any security interest, lien, or other encumbrance that Guarantor may now or hereafter have on any property of Borrower is hereby subordinated to any security interest, lien, or other encumbrance that Lender may have on any such property.
12. Revocation of Guaranty.
(a) This Guaranty may be revoked at any time by Guarantor in respect to future transactions. Such revocation shall be effective upon actual receipt by Lender, at the address shown below or at such other address as may have been provided to Guarantor by Lender, of written notice of revocation. Revocation shall not affect any of Guarantors obligations or Lenders rights with respect to transactions committed or entered into prior to Lenders receipt of such notice, regardless of whether or not the Indebtedness related to such transactions, before or after revocation, has been incurred, renewed, compromised, extended, accelerated, or otherwise changed as to any of its terms, including time for payment or increase or decrease of the rate of interest thereon, and regardless of any other act or omission of Lender authorized hereunder. Revocation by Guarantor shall not affect any obligations of any other guarantor.
(b) Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that this Guaranty may be revoked only in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this paragraph and shall not be revoked simply as a result of any change in name, location, or composition or structure of Borrower, the dissolution of Borrower, or the termination, increase, decrease, or other change of any personnel or owners of Borrower.
13. Reinstatement of Guaranty. If this Guaranty is revoked, returned, or canceled, and subsequently any payment or transfer of any interest in property by Guarantor or Borrower to Lender is rescinded or must be returned by Lender to Borrower, this Guaranty shall be reinstated with respect to any such payment or transfer, regardless of any such prior revocation, return, or cancellation.
14. Stay of Acceleration. In the event that acceleration of the time for payment of any of the Indebtedness is stayed upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, or reorganization of Borrower or otherwise, all such Indebtedness guaranteed by Guarantor shall nonetheless be payable by Guarantor immediately if requested by Lender.
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15. No Setoff or Deductions; Taxes.
(a) Guarantor represents and warrants that it is organized and resident in the United States of America. All payments by Guarantor hereunder shall be paid in full, without setoff or counterclaim or any deduction or withholding whatsoever, including, without limitation, for any and all present and future taxes. If Guarantor must make a payment under this Guaranty, Guarantor represents and warrants that it will make the payment from one of its U.S. resident offices to Lender so that no withholding tax is imposed on the payment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Guarantor makes a payment under this Guaranty to which withholding tax applies or if any taxes (other than taxes on net income (i) imposed by the country or any subdivision of the country in which Lenders principal office is located and (ii) measured by the United States taxable income Lender would have received if all payments under or in respect of this Guaranty were exempt from taxes levied by Guarantors country) are at any time imposed on any payments under or in respect of this Guaranty including, but not limited to, payments made pursuant to this paragraph, Guarantor shall pay all such taxes to the relevant authority in accordance with applicable law such that Lender receives the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made (or, if Guarantor cannot legally comply with the foregoing, Guarantor shall pay to Lender such additional amounts as will result in Lender receiving the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made). Further, Guarantor shall also pay to Lender, on demand, all additional amounts that Lender specifies as necessary to preserve the after-tax yield Lender would have received if such taxes had not been imposed.
(b) Guarantor shall promptly provide Lender with an original receipt or certified copy issued by the relevant authority evidencing the payment of any such amount required to be deducted or withheld.
16. Information Relating to Borrower. Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that it has made such independent examination, review, and investigation of the Loan Documents as Guarantor deems necessary and appropriate, including, without limitation, any covenants pertaining to Guarantor contained therein, and shall have sole responsibility to obtain from Borrower any information required by Guarantor about any modifications thereto. Guarantor further acknowledges and agrees that it shall have the sole responsibility for, and has adequate means of, obtaining from Borrower such information concerning Borrowers financial condition or business operations as Guarantor may require, and that Lender has no duty, and Guarantor is not relying on Lender, at any time to disclose to Guarantor any information relating to the business operations or financial condition of Borrower.
17. Borrowers Authorization. It is not necessary for Lender to inquire into the powers of Borrower or of the officers, directors, partners, members, managers, or agents acting or purporting to act on its behalf, and any Indebtedness made or created in reliance upon the professed exercise of such powers shall be guaranteed hereunder, subject to any limitations on Guarantors liability set forth herein.
18. Change of Status. Guarantor shall not enter into any consolidation, merger, or other combination unless Guarantor is the surviving business entity. Further, Guarantor shall not change its legal structure unless (a) Guarantor obtains the prior written consent of Lender and (b) all Guarantors obligations under this Guaranty are assumed in writing by the new business entity.
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19. Remedies. If Guarantor fails to fulfill its duty to pay all Indebtedness guaranteed hereunder, Lender shall have all of the remedies of a creditor and, to the extent applicable, of a secured party, under all applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing to the extent permitted by law, Lender may, at its option and without notice or demand:
(a) declare any Indebtedness due and payable at once;
(b) take possession of any collateral pledged by Borrower or Guarantor, wherever located, and sell, resell, assign, transfer, and deliver all or any part of the collateral at any public or private sale or otherwise dispose of any or all of the collateral in its then condition, for cash or on credit or for future delivery, and in connection therewith Lender may impose reasonable conditions upon any such sale. Further, Lender, unless prohibited by law the provisions of which cannot be waived, may purchase all or any part of the collateral to be sold, free from and discharged of all trusts, claims, rights of redemption and equities of Borrower or Guarantor whatsoever. Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that the sale of any collateral through any nationally recognized broker-dealer, investment banker, or any other method common in the securities industry shall be deemed a commercially reasonable sale under the Uniform Commercial Code or any other equivalent statute or federal law, and expressly waives notice thereof except as provided herein; and
(c) set off against any or all liabilities of Guarantor all money owed by Lender or any of its agents or affiliates in any capacity to Guarantor, whether or not due, and also set off against all other liabilities of Guarantor to Lender all money owed by Lender in any capacity to Guarantor. If exercised by Lender, Lender shall be deemed to have exercised such right of setoff and to have made a charge against any such money immediately upon the occurrence of such default although made or entered on the books subsequent thereto.
20. Notices. All notices required under this Guaranty shall be personally delivered or sent by first class mail, postage prepaid, or by overnight courier, to the addresses on the signature page of this Guaranty, in the case of Guarantor, and to the address on the signature page of the Loan Agreement, in the case of Lender, or sent by facsimile to the fax numbers listed on such signature pages, or to such other addresses as Lender and Guarantor may specify from time to time in writing. Notices and other communications shall be effective (i) if mailed, upon the earlier of receipt or five (5) days after deposit in the U.S. mail, first class, postage prepaid, (ii) if telecopied, when transmitted, or (iii) if hand-delivered, by courier or otherwise (including telegram, lettergram or mailgram), when delivered.
21. Successors and Assigns. This Guaranty (a) binds Guarantor and Guarantors executors, administrators, successors, and assigns, provided that Guarantor may not assign its rights or obligations under this Guaranty without the prior written consent of Lender, and (b) inures to the benefit of Lender and Lenders indorsees, successors, and assigns. Lender may,
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without notice to Guarantor and without affecting Guarantors obligations hereunder, sell, assign, grant participations in, pledge as collateral, or otherwise transfer to any other person, firm, or corporation the Indebtedness and this Guaranty, in whole or in part. Guarantor agrees that Lender may disclose to any assignee or purchaser, or any prospective assignee or purchaser, of all or part of the Indebtedness any and all information in Lenders possession concerning Guarantor, this Guaranty, and any security for this Guaranty.
22. Amendments, Waivers, and Severability. No provision of this Guaranty may be amended or waived except in writing. No failure by Lender to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any of its rights, remedies, or powers shall operate as a waiver thereof, and no single or partial exercise of any such right, remedy, or power shall preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, or power. The unenforceability or invalidity of any provision of this Guaranty shall not affect the enforceability or validity of any other provision of this Guaranty.
23. Costs and Expenses. Guarantor agrees to pay all reasonable attorneys fees, and all other costs and expenses that may be incurred by Lender (a) in the enforcement of this Guaranty or (b) in the preservation, protection, or enforcement of any rights of Lender in any case commenced by or against Guarantor or Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code (Title 11, United States Code) or any similar or successor statute.
24. Governing Law and Jurisdiction. This Guaranty shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the law of the State of California. To the extent that Lender has greater rights or remedies under federal law, whether as a national bank or otherwise, this paragraph shall not be deemed to deprive Lender of such rights and remedies as may be available under federal law. Jurisdiction and venue for any action or proceeding to enforce this Guaranty shall be the forum appropriate for such action or proceeding against Borrower, to which jurisdiction Guarantor irrevocably submits and to which venue Guarantor waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any defense asserting an inconvenient forum in connection therewith. It is provided, however, that if Guarantor owns property in another state, notwithstanding that the forum for enforcement action is elsewhere, Lender may commence a collection proceeding in any state in which Guarantor owns property for the purpose of enforcing provisional remedies against such property. Service of process by Lender in connection with such action or proceeding shall be binding on Guarantor if sent to Guarantor by registered or certified mail at its address specified below.
25. Dispute Resolution Provision. This paragraph, including the subparagraphs below, is referred to as the Dispute Resolution Provision. This Dispute Resolution Provision is a material inducement for the parties entering into this agreement.
(a) This Dispute Resolution Provision concerns the resolution of any controversies or claims between the parties, whether arising in contract, tort or by statute, including but not limited to controversies or claims that arise out of or relate to: (i) this agreement (including any renewals, extensions or modifications); or (ii) any document related to this agreement, including, without limitation, the Pledge Agreement (collectively a Claim). For the purposes of this Dispute Resolution Provision only, the term parties shall include any parent corporation, subsidiary or affiliate of the Lender involved in the servicing, management or administration of any obligation described or evidenced by this agreement.
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(b) At the request of any party to this agreement, any Claim shall be resolved by binding arbitration in accordance with the Federal Arbitration Act (Title 9, U.S. Code) (the Act). The Act will apply even though this agreement provides that it is governed by the law of a specified state.
(c) Arbitration proceedings will be determined in accordance with the Act, the then-current rules and procedures for the arbitration of financial services disputes of the American Arbitration Association or any successor thereof (AAA), and the terms of this Dispute Resolution Provision. In the event of any inconsistency, the terms of this Dispute Resolution Provision shall control. If AAA is unwilling or unable to (i) serve as the provider of arbitration or (ii) enforce any provision of this arbitration clause, the Lender may designate another arbitration organization with similar procedures to serve as the provider of arbitration.
(d) The arbitration shall be administered by AAA and conducted, unless otherwise required by law, in any U.S. state where real or tangible personal property collateral for this credit is located or if there is no such collateral, in the state specified in the governing law section of this agreement. All Claims shall be determined by one arbitrator; however, if Claims exceed Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000), upon the request of any party, the Claims shall be decided by three arbitrators. All arbitration hearings shall commence within ninety (90) days of the demand for arbitration and close within ninety (90) days of commencement and the award of the arbitrator(s) shall be issued within thirty (30) days of the close of the hearing. However, the arbitrator(s), upon a showing of good cause, may extend the commencement of the hearing for up to an additional sixty (60) days. The arbitrator(s) shall provide a concise written statement of reasons for the award. The arbitration award may be submitted to any court having jurisdiction to be confirmed and have judgment entered and enforced.
(e) Except as waived by Guarantor in this Guaranty, the arbitrator(s) will give effect to statutes of limitation in determining any Claim and may dismiss the arbitration on the basis that the Claim is barred. For purposes of the application of any statutes of limitation, the service on AAA under applicable AAA rules of a notice of Claim is the equivalent of the filing of a lawsuit. Any dispute concerning this arbitration provision or whether a Claim is arbitrable shall be determined by the arbitrator(s), except as set forth at subparagraph (j) of this Dispute Resolution Provision. The arbitrator(s) shall have the power to award legal fees pursuant to the terms of this agreement.
(f) The procedure described above will not apply if the Claim, at the time of the proposed submission to arbitration, arises from or relates to an obligation to the Lender secured by real property. In this case, all of the parties to this agreement must consent to submission of the Claim to arbitration.
(g) To the extent any Claims are not arbitrated, to the extent permitted by law the Claims shall be resolved in court by a judge without a jury, except any Claims which are brought in California state court shall be determined by judicial reference as described below.
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(h) Any Claim which is not arbitrated and which is brought in California state court will be resolved by a general reference to a referee (or a panel of referees) as provided in California Code of Civil Procedure Section 638. The referee (or presiding referee of the panel) shall be a retired Judge or Justice. The referee (or panel of referees) shall be selected by mutual written agreement of the parties. If the parties do not agree, the referee shall be selected by the Presiding Judge of the Court (or his or her representative) as provided in California Code of Civil Procedure Section 638 and the following related sections. The referee shall determine all issues in accordance with existing California law and the California rules of evidence and civil procedure. The referee shall be empowered to enter equitable as well as legal relief, provide all temporary or provisional remedies, enter equitable orders that will be binding on the parties and rule on any motion which would be authorized in a trial, including without limitation motions for summary judgment or summary adjudication . The award that results from the decision of the referee(s) will be entered as a judgment in the court that appointed the referee, in accordance with the provisions of California Code of Civil Procedure Sections 644(a) and 645. The parties reserve the right to seek appellate review of any judgment or order, including but not limited to, orders pertaining to class certification, to the same extent permitted in a court of law.
(i) This Dispute Resolution Provision does not limit the right of any party to: (i) exercise self-help remedies, such as but not limited to, setoff; (ii) initiate judicial or non-judicial foreclosure against any real or personal property collateral; (iii) exercise any judicial or power of sale rights, or (iv) act in a court of law to obtain an interim remedy, such as but not limited to, injunctive relief, writ of possession or appointment of a receiver, or additional or supplementary remedies. The filing of a court action is not intended to constitute a waiver of the right of any party, including the suing party, thereafter to require submittal of the Claim to arbitration or judicial reference.
(j) Any arbitration, judicial reference or trial by a judge of any Claim will take place on an individual basis without resort to any form of class or representative action (the Class Action Waiver). Regardless of anything else in this Dispute Resolution Provision, the validity and effect of the Class Action Waiver may be determined only by a court or referee and not by an arbitrator. The parties to this Agreement acknowledge that the Class Action Waiver is material and essential to the arbitration of any disputes between the parties and is nonseverable from the agreement to arbitrate Claims. If the Class Action Waiver is limited, voided or found unenforceable, then the parties agreement to arbitrate shall be null and void with respect to such proceeding, subject to the right to appeal the limitation or invalidation of the Class Action Waiver. The Parties acknowledge and agree that under no circumstances will a class action be arbitrated.
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(k) By agreeing to binding arbitration or judicial reference, the parties irrevocably and voluntarily waive any right they may have to a trial by jury as permitted by law in respect of any Claim. Furthermore, without intending in any way to limit this Dispute Resolution Provision, to the extent any Claim is not arbitrated or submitted to judicial reference, the parties irrevocably and voluntarily waive any right they may have to a trial by jury to the extent permitted by law in respect of such Claim. This waiver of jury trial shall remain in effect even if the Class Action Waiver is limited, voided or found unenforceable. WHETHER THE CLAIM IS DECIDED BY ARBITRATION, BY JUDICIAL REFERENCE, OR BY TRIAL BY A JUDGE, THE PARTIES AGREE AND UNDERSTAND THAT THE EFFECT OF THIS AGREEMENT IS THAT THEY ARE GIVING UP THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
26. FINAL AGREEMENT. BY SIGNING THIS DOCUMENT THE UNDERSIGNED REPRESENTS AND AGREES THAT: (A) THIS DOCUMENT REPRESENTS THE FINAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN PARTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF, (B) THIS DOCUMENT SUPERSEDES ANY COMMITMENT LETTER, TERM SHEET, OR OTHER WRITTEN OUTLINE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF, UNLESS SUCH COMMITMENT LETTER, TERM SHEET, OR OTHER WRITTEN OUTLINE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS EXPRESSLY PROVIDES TO THE CONTRARY, (C) THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES, AND (D) THIS DOCUMENT MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF ANY PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OR UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE PARTIES.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed this Guaranty as of the date first written above.
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624 South Grand Ave., Suite 2420
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Attention: Evan G. Williams
Telephone: (213) 628-8312
Facsimile: (213) 488-9890
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Exhibit 99.8
August 15, 2008
Clean Energy
3020 Old Ranch Parkway, Suite 200
Seal Beach, CA 90740
Attention: Andrew Littlefair
Re: Subordination of Management Fees
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to (a) the Loan Agreement dated as of August 15, 2008 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, the Loan Agreement), between CE Dallas Renewables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (Borrower), and Clean Energy, a California corporation (Lender), and (b) any and all debts, obligations or liabilities now or hereafter existing, absolute or contingent of Borrower, any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, or any successors or assigns of such parties (collectively, the Borrower Group), to Lender under the Loan Agreement and each of the documents executed in connection therewith, whether voluntary or involuntary, whether due or not due, or whether incurred direectly or indirectly or acquired by Lender by assignment or otherwise, are collectively referred to herein as the Obligations. All other capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Loan Agreement.
In order to induce you to extend credit to Borrower under the Loan Agreement, the undersigned by executing this letter agreement hereby represents, warrants, covenants and agrees for your benefit that:
1. All management, consulting or similar fees or compensation (collectively, Management Fees) paid or payable directly or indirectly to the undersigned and/or any of its respective officers, employees, subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, the Management Group) by the Borrower Group, shall be and hereby are subordinated to all amounts now or hereafter owing to you in connection with the Obligations, and the payment thereof is deferred until the payment of all such Obligations in full in cash, the termination of the lending commitments under the Loan Agreement and the cash collateralization (or termination by other means) of all outstanding letters of credit issued in connection with the Loan Agreement; provided that the Management Group may collect from and enforce against the Borrower Group such Management Fees as are permitted to be paid under Section 6.1 of the Loan Agreement, in the amounts and at the times specified therein.
2. Except as set forth in paragraph 1 above, the Management Group shall not accept or receive, by setoff or in any other manner, any Management Fees from the Borrower Group and, except to the extent set forth in paragraph 1 above, any Management Fees received by the Management Group shall be held in trust for the benefit of Lender.
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3. Except to the extent permitted under the Loan Agreement, no member of the Management Group has entered into or shall, or shall be permitted to, enter into or be a party to any management, consulting or similar agreement with any member of the Borrower Group.
4. It is hereby expressly acknowledged that following the consummation of the DCE Restructure (as defined in the Loan Agreement), Dallas Clean Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (DCE) shall assume all of Borrowers obligations under the Loan Agreement and all instruments, documents, and agreements executed in connection therewith, including, without limitation, this letter agreement. Following such restructure, DCE shall be deemed to be a member of the Borrower Group and shall be bound by the terms of this letter agreement.
5. This letter agreement is binding on the successors and assignees of each of the parties hereto. Any and all provisions of the Loan Agreement which pertain to documents executed in connection therewith generally, shall be applicable to this letter agreement. This letter agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of California, provided that to the extent that Lender has greater rights or remedies under federal law, this section shall not be deemed to deprive Lender of such rights and remedies as may be available under federal law.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed this letter agreement on behalf of itself and its affiliates as of the date first written above.
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Exhibit 99.9
CREDIT AGREEMENT
CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP.
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CLEAN ENERGY
as the Borrowers
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PLAINSCAPITAL BANK,
as the Lender
$18,000,000 Facility A
$12,000,000 Facility B
August 15, 2008
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ARTICLE I - Definitions and References |
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Section 1.1. |
Defined Terms |
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Section 1.2. |
Exhibits and Schedules; Additional Definitions |
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Section 1.3. |
Terms Generally; References and Titles |
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Section 1.4. |
Calculations and Determinations |
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Section 1.5. |
Joint Preparation; Construction of Indemnities and Releases |
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ARTICLE II - The Loans |
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Section 2.1. |
Commitments to Lend; Notes |
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Section 2.2. |
Requests for Loans |
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Section 2.3. |
Use of Proceeds |
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Section 2.4. |
Interest Rates and Fees; Payments |
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Section 2.5. |
Voluntary Prepayments |
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Section 2.6. |
Mandatory Prepayments |
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Section 2.7. |
Payment Reserve Account |
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Section 3.1. |
General Procedures |
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Increased Costs |
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Taxes |
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ARTICLE IV - Conditions Precedent to Lending |
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Section 4.1. |
Documents to be Delivered |
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Closing of Acquisition |
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Additional Conditions Precedent |
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Section 5.1. |
No Default |
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Section 5.2. |
Organization and Good Standing |
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Section 5.3. |
Authorization |
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Section 5.4. |
No Conflicts or Consents |
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Section 5.5. |
Enforceable Obligations |
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Section 5.6. |
Initial Financial Statements |
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Section 5.7. |
Other Obligations and Restrictions |
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Section 5.8. |
Full Disclosure |
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Section 5.9. |
Litigation |
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Section 5.10. |
ERISA Plans and Liabilities |
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Section 5.11. |
Environmental and Other Laws |
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Section 5.12. |
Names and Places of Business |
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Section 5.13. |
Subsidiaries |
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Government Regulation |
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Taxes |
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Title to Properties; Intellectual Property |
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Regulation U |
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Payment and Performance |
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Section 6.2. |
Books, Financial Statements and Reports |
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Section 6.3. |
Other Information and Inspections |
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Section 6.4. |
Notice of Material Events and Change of Address |
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Section 6.5. |
Maintenance of Properties |
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Section 6.6. |
Maintenance of Existence and Qualifications |
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Payment of Trade Liabilities, Taxes, etc. |
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Section 6.8. |
Insurance |
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Section 6.9. |
Performance on Borrowers Behalf |
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Section 6.10. |
Interest |
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Section 6.11. |
Compliance with Agreements and Law |
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Section 6.12. |
Environmental Matters; Environmental Reviews |
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Section 6.13. |
Evidence of Compliance |
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Section 6.14. |
Bank Accounts; Offset |
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Section 6.15. |
Agreement to Deliver Security Documents |
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Section 6.16. |
Perfection and Protection of Security Interests and Liens |
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Deposit Accounts |
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Lockbox |
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Indebtedness |
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Limitation on Liens |
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Limitation on Mergers, Issuances of Securities |
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Limitation on Sales of Property |
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Limitation on Dividends and Redemptions |
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Limitation on Investments and New Businesses |
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Limitation on Credit Extensions |
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Prohibited Contracts |
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Minimum Liquidity |
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Section 7.11. |
Accounts Receivable |
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Maximum Consolidated Funded Debt to Equity Ratio |
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Global Debt Service Coverage Ratio |
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Clean Energy Loan Documents |
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LLC Agreement |
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Events of Default |
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Section 9.1. |
Waivers and Amendments; Acknowledgments |
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Survival of Agreements; Cumulative Nature |
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Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication |
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Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver |
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Benefits; Participations |
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Confidentiality |
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Governing Law |
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Limitation on Interest |
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Severability |
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Counterparts; Integration |
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Waiver of Jury Trial, Punitive Damages, etc. |
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No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility |
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Binding Arbitration |
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Security Schedule |
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Insurance Schedule |
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Borrowing Notice |
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Opinion of Counsel for Restricted Persons |
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CREDIT AGREEMENT
THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT is made as of August 15, 2008, by and among CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP., a Delaware corporation (CEF), and CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation (Clean Energy), as the Borrowers, and PLAINSCAPITAL BANK, a Texas state chartered bank, as the Lender (the Lender).
W I T N E S S E T H:
In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein in consideration of the loans which may hereafter be made by the Lender, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto do hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I - Definitions and References
Section 1.1. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, each of the following terms has the meaning given to such term in this Section 1.1 or in the sections and subsections referred to below:
Accounts means all presently existing and hereafter arising accounts, contract rights, and all other forms of obligations owing to Borrowers arising out of the sale or lease of goods or the rendering of services by Borrowers.
Acquisition means the acquisition of all membership interests in DCE pursuant to the Acquisition Documents.
Acquisition Documents means (a) the Membership Interests Purchase and Sale Agreement dated August 15, 2008 among Camco International, Ltd., Camco DCE Limited, Camco DCE Inc., CE Dallas, Clean Energy, and Cambrian, (b) the Assignment of Membership Interests, and (c) all other agreements or instruments delivered in connection therewith to consummate the Acquisition.
Adjusted Base Rate means, on any day, the greater of (i) the Base Rate for such day plus one-half of one percent (0.50%) per annum and (ii) five and one-half of one percent (5.50%) per annum; provided that the Adjusted Base Rate shall never exceed the Highest Lawful Rate.
Affiliate means, as to any Person, each other Person that directly or indirectly (through one or more intermediaries or otherwise) controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person. A Person shall be deemed to be controlled by any other Person if such other Person possesses, directly or indirectly, power:
(a) to vote 10% or more of the securities or other equity interests (on a fully diluted basis) having ordinary voting power for the election of directors, the managing general partner or partners or the managing member or members; or
(b) to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether by contract or otherwise.
Agreement means this Credit Agreement.
Base Rate means, for each calendar month, the Prime Rate of interest for the U.S. published in the Borrowing Benchmarks section of the Wall Street Journal on the first Business Day of such calendar month. Any changes in the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate as of the first Business Day of each calendar month shall take place immediately without notice or demand of any kind. If the Wall Street Journal no longer reports the Prime Rate, or the Lender determines in good faith that the rate so reported no longer accurately reflects an accurate determination of the prevailing Prime Rate, the Lender may select a reasonably comparable index or source to use as the basis for the Base Rate. The Base Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate being charged by the Lender to its customers.
Blue Fuels means Blue Fuels Group L.P., a Texas limited partnership.
Borrower means either CEF or Clean Energy, individually, and Borrowers means CEF and Clean Energy collectively.
Borrowing Notice means a written or telephonic request, or a written confirmation, made by the Borrowers which meets the requirements of Section 2.2.
Business Day means a day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, on which commercial banks are open for business with the public in Dallas, Texas.
Cambrian means Cambrian McCommas Bluff LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
Capital Lease means a lease with respect to which the lessee is required concurrently to recognize the acquisition of an asset and the incurrence of a liability in accordance with GAAP.
Capital Lease Obligation means, with respect to any Person and a Capital Lease, the amount of the obligation of such Person as the lessee under such Capital Lease which should, in accordance with GAAP, appear as a liability on the balance sheet of such Person.
Cash Equivalents means Investments in:
(a) marketable obligations, maturing within twelve months after acquisition thereof, issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America or an instrumentality or agency thereof and entitled to the full faith and credit of the United States of America;
(b) demand deposits, and time deposits (including certificates of deposit) maturing within twelve months from the date of deposit thereof, with any office of the Lender or with a domestic office of any national or state bank or trust company which is organized under the Laws of the United States of America or any state therein, which has capital, surplus and undivided profits of at least $300,000,000, and whose long term certificates of deposit are rated at least Aa3 by Moodys or AA- by S & P;
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(c) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than seven days for underlying securities of the types described in subsection (a) above entered into with any commercial bank meeting the specifications of subsection (b) above;
(d) open market commercial paper, maturing within 270 days after acquisition thereof, which are rated at least P-1 by Moodys or A-1 by S & P; and
(e) money market or other mutual funds (i) that are rated AA or better by S&P or (ii) substantially all of the assets of which comprise securities of the types described in subsections (a) through (d) above.
CE Dallas means CE Dallas Renewables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
CEF means Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a Delaware corporation.
Change in Law means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority.
Change of Control means the occurrence of any of the following events: (a) any Person or two or more Persons (other than the Permitted Holders) acting as a group shall acquire beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1934, as amended, and including holding proxies to vote for the election of directors other than proxies held by either Borrowers management or their designees to be voted in favor of Persons nominated by such Borrowers Board of Directors) of 35% or more of the outstanding voting securities of such Borrower, measured by voting power (including both common stock and any preferred stock or other equity securities entitling the holders thereof to vote with the holders of common stock in elections for directors of such Borrower, (b) one-third or more of the directors of either Borrower shall consist of Persons not nominated by such Borrowers Board of Directors (not including as Board nominees any directors which the Board is obligated to nominate pursuant to shareholders agreements, voting trust arrangements or similar arrangements), or (c) Clean Energy fails to own at least fifty-one percent (51%) of all outstanding member interests in the Project Company.
Clean Energy means Clean Energy, a California Corporation.
Clean Energy Loan Documents means that certain Loan Agreement of even date herewith between the Project Company, as borrower, and Clean Energy, as lender, a promissory note in the stated principal amount of $14,000,000 made by the Project Company payable to the order of Clean Energy, and the security documents and other agreement and instruments executed in connection therewith.
Closing Date means the date on which all of the conditions precedent set forth in Sections 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 shall have been satisfied or waived.
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Collateral means all property of any kind which is subject to a Lien in favor of Lender or which, under the terms of any Security Document, is purported to be subject to such a Lien, in each case that secures the Obligations.
Consolidated refers to the consolidation of any Person, in accordance with GAAP, with its properly consolidated subsidiaries. References herein to a Persons Consolidated financial statements, financial position, financial condition, liabilities, etc. refer to the consolidated financial statements, financial position, financial condition, liabilities, etc. of such Person and its properly consolidated subsidiaries.
Consolidated EBITDA means, for any period (without duplication), the sum of (1) Consolidated Net Income during such period (excluding extraordinary gains and losses), plus (2) all interest expense recorded during such period on Indebtedness (including amortization of original issue discount and the interest component of any deferred payment obligations and Capital Lease Obligations) which was deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, plus (3) all income taxes which were deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, plus (4) all depreciation, amortization (including amortization of good will and debt issue costs), depletion, and other non-cash charges (including any provision for the reduction in the carrying value of assets recorded in accordance with GAAP and including those resulting from the requirements of FASB 133, 143 or 144) which were deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, plus (5) all stock option compensation expenses which were deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, minus (6) all non-cash items of income which were included in determining such Consolidated Net Income.
Consolidated Funded Debt means (1) the categories of Liabilities of CEF and its properly Consolidated Subsidiaries described in clauses (a), (b), (c), and (e), of the definition of Indebtedness in Section 1.1, (2) Liabilities of CEF and its properly Consolidated Subsidiaries for reimbursement obligations owed to a creditor for amounts paid by such creditor for draws under a letter of credit, and (3) Liabilities of CEF and its properly Consolidated Subsidiaries for any guaranty of Indebtedness for which the creditor has made demand for payment (without duplication).
Consolidated Net Income means, for any period, CEFs and its properly Consolidated Subsidiaries gross revenues for such period, including any cash dividends or distributions actually received from any other Person during such period, minus CEFs and such Subsidiaries expenses and other proper charges against income (including taxes on income, to the extent imposed), determined on a Consolidated basis.
Consolidated Net Worth means, at any time, (a) the total assets of CEF and its Subsidiaries which would be shown as assets on a Consolidated balance sheet of CEF and its Subsidiaries as of such time, minus (b) the total liabilities of CEF and its Subsidiaries which would be shown as liabilities on a Consolidated balance sheet of CEF and its Subsidiaries as of such time.
Control means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. Controlling and Controlled have meanings correlative thereto.
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DCE means Dallas Clean Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
DCE Post Closing Merger means the merger of CE Dallas with and into DCE, with DCE being the surviving entity.
Default means any Event of Default and any default, event or condition which would, with the giving of any requisite notices and the passage of any requisite periods of time, constitute an Event of Default.
Default Rate means, at the time in question, the Base Rate then in effect plus five percent (5%) per annum.
Disclosure Schedule means Schedule 1 hereto.
Distribution means (a) any dividend or other distribution made by a Restricted Person on or in respect of any stock, partnership interest, membership interest, or other equity interest in such Restricted Person or any other Restricted Person (including any option or warrant to buy such an equity interest), or (b) any payment made by a Restricted Person to purchase, redeem, acquire or retire any stock, partnership interest, membership interest, or other equity interest in such Restricted Person or any other Restricted Person (including any such option or warrant).
Environmental Laws means any and all Laws relating to the environment or to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of pollutants, contaminants, chemicals, or industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes into the environment including ambient air, surface water, ground water, or land, or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport, or handling of pollutants, contaminants, chemicals, or industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes. Environmental Laws include, without limitation, the Clean Air Act, as amended, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, as amended, the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, CERCLA, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, as amended, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments Act of 1984, as amended, the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended, the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), as amended, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended, any similar state laws, and any other federal, state and local Law whose purpose is to conserve or protect human health, the environment, wildlife or natural resources.
Equity Interest means shares of capital stock or a partnership, profits, capital, member or other equity interest, or options, warrants or any other rights to substitute for or otherwise acquire the capital stock or a partnership, profits, capital, member or other equity interest of any Person.
ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and any successor statutes or statute, together with all rules and regulations promulgated with respect thereto.
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ERISA Affiliate means each Restricted Person and all members of a controlled group of corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control that, together with such Restricted Person, are treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code.
ERISA Plan means any employee pension benefit plan subject to Title IV of ERISA maintained by any ERISA Affiliate with respect to which any Restricted Person has a fixed or contingent liability.
Event of Default has the meaning given to such term in Section 8.1.
Excluded Taxes means, with respect to the Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrowers hereunder, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by its overall net income (however denominated), and franchise taxes (however denominated, including any such taxes imposed on or measured by overall gross income) imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), by a jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) (I) under the laws of which such recipient is organized, (II) in which its principal office is located or, in the case of the Lender, in which its Lending Office is located, or (III) with which the Lender or such recipient otherwise has nexus (other than nexus arising solely from receiving any payment or enforcing its rights under this Agreement) and (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which the Borrowers are located.
Facility A Loan has the meaning give to such term in Section 2.1(a).
Facility A Note has the meaning give to such term in Section 2.1(a).
Facility B Commitment Period means the period from and including the Closing Date until February 15, 2009 (or, if earlier, the day on which the obligations of the Lender to make Loans hereunder has been terminated or the Notes first become due and payable in full).
Facility B Loans has the meaning give to such term in Section 2.1(b).
Facility B Maximum Credit Amount means the obligation of the Lender to make Facility B Loans to the Borrowers in an aggregate amount not exceeding $12,000,000.
Facility B Note has the meaning give to such term in Section 2.1(b).
Fiscal Quarter means a three-month period ending on March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31 of any year.
Fiscal Year means a twelve-month period ending on December 31 of any year.
GAAP means those generally accepted accounting principles and practices which are recognized as such by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (or any generally recognized successor) and which, in the case of Restricted Persons and their Consolidated Subsidiaries, are applied for all periods after the date hereof in a manner consistent with the manner in which such principles and practices were applied to the Initial Financial Statements. If any change in any
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accounting principle or practice is required by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (or any such successor) in order for such principle or practice to continue as a generally accepted accounting principle or practice, all reports and financial statements required hereunder with respect to any Restricted Person or with respect to any Restricted Person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries may be prepared in accordance with such change, but all calculations and determinations to be made hereunder may be made in accordance with such change only after notice of such change is given to the Lender, and the Lender and the Borrowers agree to negotiate in good faith in respect of the modification of any covenants hereunder that are affected by such change in order to cause them to measure substantially the same financial performance as the covenants in effect immediately prior to such change.
Governmental Authority means the government of the United States or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).
Hazardous Materials means any substances regulated under any Environmental Law, whether as pollutants, contaminants, or chemicals, or as industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes, or otherwise, including, but not limited to (a) any hazardous substance, as defined by CERCLA; (b) any hazardous waste or solid waste, in either case as defined by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended; (c) any solid, hazardous, dangerous, radioactive or toxic chemical, material, waste or substance, within the meaning of and regulated by any Environmental Law; (d) any asbestos containing materials in any form or condition; (e) any polychlorinated biphenyls in any form or condition; (f) petroleum, petroleum hydrocarbons, or any fraction or byproducts thereof; or (g) any air pollutant which is so designated by the U.S. EPA as authorized by the Clean Air Act or otherwise regulated by the Clean Air Act.
Hedging Contract means (a) any agreement providing for options, swaps, floors, caps, collars, forward sales or forward purchases involving interest rates, commodities or commodity prices, equities, currencies, bonds, or indexes based on any of the foregoing, (b) any option, futures or forward contract traded on an exchange, and (c) any other derivative agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement.
Highest Lawful Rate means the maximum nonusurious rate of interest that the Lender is permitted under applicable Law to contract for, take, charge, or receive with respect to the Obligations.
Indebtedness of any Person means Liabilities in any of the following categories (without duplication):
(a) Liabilities for borrowed money;
(b) Liabilities constituting an obligation to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services;
(c) Liabilities evidenced by a bond, debenture, note or similar instrument;
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(d) Liabilities which (i) would under GAAP be shown on such Persons balance sheet as a liability, and (ii) are payable more than one (1) year from the date of creation or incurrence thereof (other than reserves for taxes and reserves for contingent obligations);
(e) Liabilities constituting principal under Capital Leases Obligations;
(f) Liabilities arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements relating to property purchased by such Person;
(g) Liabilities owing under direct or indirect guaranties of Indebtedness of any other Person or otherwise constituting obligations to purchase or acquire or to otherwise protect or insure a creditor against loss in respect of Indebtedness of any other Person (such as obligations under working capital maintenance agreements, agreements to keep-well, or agreements to purchase Indebtedness, assets, goods, securities or services), but excluding endorsements in the ordinary course of business of negotiable instruments in the course of collection;
(h) Liabilities (for example, repurchase agreements, mandatorily redeemable preferred stock and sale/leaseback agreements) consisting of an obligation to purchase or redeem securities or other property of such Person, if such Liabilities arise out of or in connection with the sale or issuance of the same or similar securities or property;
(i) Liabilities with respect to letters of credit or applications or reimbursement agreements therefor;
(j) Liabilities arising under Hedging Contracts (on a net basis to the extent netting is provided for in the applicable Hedging Contract), excluding any portion thereof which would be accounted for as an interest expense under GAAP; and
(k) Liabilities with respect to bankers acceptances;
provided, however, that the Indebtedness of any Person shall not include Liabilities that were incurred by such Person on ordinary trade terms to vendors, suppliers, or other Persons providing goods and services for use by such Person in the ordinary course of its business, unless and until such Liabilities are outstanding more than 90 days past the original invoice or billing date therefor.
Indemnified Taxes means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
Independent Engineers means the independent petroleum engineering firm that prepared the Initial Engineering Report or another independent petroleum engineering firm chosen by the Borrowers and acceptable to the Lender.
Initial Engineering Report means the engineering report concerning the McCommas Bluff Gas Plant dated August 13, 2008, prepared by SCS Energy.
Initial Financial Statements means (a) the audited annual Consolidated financial statements of the Borrowers dated as of December 31, 2007, and (b) the unaudited quarterly Consolidated financial statements of the Borrowers dated as of June 30, 2008.
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Insolvent means with respect to any Person, that such Person (a) is insolvent (as such term is defined in the United States Bankruptcy Code, Title 11 U.S.C., as amended (the Code), and with all terms used in this Section that are defined in the Code having the meanings ascribed to those terms in the text and interpretive case law applicable to the Code), or (b) the sum of such Persons debts, including absolute and contingent liabilities, the Obligations or guarantees thereof, exceeds the value of such Persons assets, at a fair valuation, and (c) such Persons capital is unreasonably small for the business in which such Person is engaged and intends to be engaged. Such Person has incurred (whether under the Loan Documents or otherwise), or intends to incur debts which will be beyond its ability to pay as such debts mature.
Insurance Schedule means Schedule 3 attached hereto.
Investment means any investment, made directly or indirectly, in any Person, whether by purchase, acquisition of equity interests, indebtedness or other obligations or securities or by extension of credit, loan, advance, capital contribution or otherwise and whether made in cash, by the transfer of property, or by any other means.
Law means any statute, law, regulation, ordinance, rule, treaty, judgment, order, decree, permit, concession, franchise, license, agreement or other governmental restriction of the United States or any state or political subdivision thereof or of any foreign country or any department, province or other political subdivision thereof. Any reference to a Law includes any amendment or modification to such Law, and all regulations, rulings, and other Laws promulgated under such Law.
Lease means that certain Lease to Develop Landfill Gas dated as of December 12, 1994, as amended by that certain First Amendment to the Lease to Develop Landfill Gas dated as of July 10, 2003, and by that certain Acknowledgment Agreement dated as of November 19, 2007, pursuant to which DCE leases from the City of Dallas certain real property known as the McCommas Bluff Landfill for the purpose of developing and processing Landfill Gas.
Lender means PlainsCapital Bank, a Texas state chartered bank.
Lending Office means the office of the Lender in Dallas, Texas, or such other office as such Lender may from time to time specify to the Borrowers.
Liabilities means, as to any Person, all indebtedness, liabilities and obligations of such Person, whether matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, primary or secondary, direct or indirect, absolute, fixed or contingent, and whether or not required to be considered pursuant to GAAP.
Lien means, with respect to any property or assets, any right or interest therein of a creditor to secure Liabilities owed to it or any other arrangement with such creditor which provides for the payment of such Liabilities out of such property or assets or which allows such creditor to have such Liabilities satisfied out of such property or assets prior to the general creditors of any owner thereof, including any lien, mortgage, security interest, pledge, deposit, production payment, rights of a vendor under any title retention or conditional sale agreement or lease substantially equivalent thereto, tax lien, mechanics or materialmans lien, or any other charge or encumbrance for security purposes, whether arising by Law or agreement or otherwise,
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but excluding any right of offset which arises without agreement in the ordinary course of business. Lien also means any filed financing statement, any registration of a pledge (such as with an issuer of uncertificated securities), or any other arrangement or action which would serve to perfect a Lien described in the preceding sentence, regardless of whether such financing statement is filed, such registration is made, or such arrangement or action is undertaken before or after such Lien exists.
LLC Agreement means that certain Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Project Company dated as of August 15, 2008 by and among Clean Energy and Cambrian.
Loan Documents means this Agreement, the Notes, the Security Documents, and all other agreements, certificates, documents, instruments and writings at any time delivered in connection herewith or therewith (exclusive of term sheets and commitment letters).
Loans means, collectively, the Facility A Loan and the Facility B Loans. Loan means the Facility A Loan or the Facility B Loans individually.
Lockbox has the meaning given it in Section 4.1(l).
Material Adverse Change means a material and adverse change, from the state of affairs as of June 30, 2008, or as represented or warranted in any Loan Document, to (a) the Borrowers Consolidated financial condition, (b) the Borrowers Consolidated business, assets, operations, properties or prospects, considered as a whole, (c) DCEs financial condition, (d) DCEs business, assets, operations, properties or prospects taken as a whole, (e) the Borrowers ability to timely pay the Obligations, or (f) the enforceability of the material terms of any Loan Documents against the Restricted Persons.
Maturity Date means August 15, 2013.
Moodys means Moodys Investors Service, Inc., or its successor.
Natural Fuels means Natural Fuels Company LLC, a Colorado limited liability company.
Notes means, collectively, the Facility A Note and the Facility B Note.
Obligations means all Liabilities from time to time owing by any Restricted Person to the Lender under or pursuant to any of the Loan Documents. Obligation means any part of the Obligations.
Organizational Documents means (i) with respect to any corporation, its certificate or articles of incorporation, as amended, and it by-laws, as amended, (ii) with respect to any limited partnership, its certificate of limited partnership, as amended, and its partnership agreement, as amended, (iii) with respect to any limited liability company, its articles of organization, as amended, and its operating agreement, as amended. In the event any term or conditions of this Agreement or any other Loan Document requires any Organizational Document to be certified by a secretary of state or similar governmental official, the reference to any such Organizational Document shall only be to a document of a type customarily certified by such governmental official.
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Other Taxes means all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
Payment Reserve Account means deposit account number 3100031073 established with the Lender in the name of PlainsCapital Bank for the benefit of Clean Energy.
Permits means all permits, consents, authorizations, approvals, registrations, licenses, certificates or variances granted by or obtained from any Governmental Authority.
Permitted Holders means T. Boone Pickens and Madeleine Pickens.
Permitted Investments means
(a) Cash Equivalents;
(b) existing Investments described in the Disclosure Schedule;
(c) normal and prudent extensions of credit by Restricted Persons to their customers for buying goods and services in the ordinary course of business or to another Restricted Person in the ordinary course of business, which extensions shall not be for longer periods than those extended by similar businesses operated in a normal and prudent manner;
(d) extensions of credit among Restricted Persons which are subordinated to the Obligations upon terms and conditions satisfactory to the Lender in its sole and absolute discretion;
(e) acquisitions of or capital contributions to or other Investments in any Person or property, so long as (1) immediately before and after giving pro forma effect to such Investment, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (2) immediately after giving effect thereto, the Borrowers shall be in pro forma compliance with all of the covenants set forth in Sections 7.10 through 7.14, and (3) if such Investment is not being made with proceeds of the sale of Equity Interests of a Borrower, the Borrowers shall have delivered to the Lender, prior to the making of such Investment, a certificate of a Responsible Officer demonstrating compliance with the provisions of Sections 7.10 through 7.14; and
(f) Investments not described in subsections (a) through (e) above which do not (taking into account all Investments of all Restricted Persons) exceed an aggregate amount of $250,000 during any Fiscal Year.
For purpose of Investments described in clause (e) above, each such Investment shall be valued at the greater of (x) the amount at which such Investment is shown on the books of CEF or any of its Subsidiaries (or zero, if such Investment is not shown on any such books); and (ii) the excess of (x) the greater of (A) the amount originally entered on the books of CEF or any of its Subsidiaries with respect thereto and (B) the cost thereof to CEF or its Subsidiary over (y) any return of capital (after income taxes applicable thereto) upon such Investment through the sale or other liquidation thereof or part thereof or otherwise.
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Permitted Liens means:
(a) statutory Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges or levies which are not yet delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP;
(b) landlords, operators, carriers, warehousemens, repairmens, mechanics, materialmens, or other like Liens which do not secure Indebtedness, in each case only to the extent arising in the ordinary course of business and only to the extent securing obligations which are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP;
(c) minor defects and irregularities in title to any property, so long as such defects and irregularities neither secure Indebtedness nor materially impair the value of such property or the use of such property for the purposes for which such property is held;
(d) deposits of cash or securities to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts (other than Indebtedness), leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(e) Liens under the Security Documents;
(f) with respect only to property subject to any particular Security Document, Liens burdening such property which are expressly allowed by such Security Document;
(g) easements, restrictions, servitudes, permits, conditions, covenants, exceptions or reservations in any property of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries for the purpose of roads, pipelines, transmission lines, transportation lines, distribution lines for the removal of gas, oil, coal or other minerals or timber, and other like purposes, or for the joint or common use of real estate, rights of way, facilities and equipment, that do not secure any monetary obligations and that do not materially interfere with the future development of such property or with cash flow from such property;
(h) Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provision relating to bankers liens, rights of set-off or similar rights and remedies and burdening only deposit accounts or other funds maintained with a creditor depository institution, provided that no such deposit account is a dedicated cash collateral account or is subject to restrictions against access by the depositor and no such deposit account is intended by the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries to provide collateral to the depository institution;
(i) pledges or deposits in connection with workers compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislations;
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(j) Liens on cash deposits of the Borrowers or their Subsidiaries to secure Indebtedness under Hedging Contracts permitted under Section 7.1; and
(k) Liens granted by the Project Company to Clean Energy pursuant to the Clean Energy Loan Documents.
Person means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
Project Company means, at all times prior to the DCE Post Closing Merger, CE Dallas, and upon the effectiveness of the DCE Post Closing Merger and at all times thereafter, DCE.
Rating Agency means either S & P or Moodys.
Regulation D means Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect.
Responsible Officer means, with respect to each Borrower, the Chief Executive Officer, President or Chief Financial Officer of such Borrower, and with respect to any other Restricted Person, if such Restricted Person is a corporation, the President or Chief Financial Officer of such Restricted Person, if such Restricted Person is a limited liability company, a Manager or officer of such Restricted Person, as applicable, and if such Restricted Person is a limited partnership, the applicable officer of the General Partner of such limited partnership.
Reserve Requirement means, at any time, the maximum rate at which reserves (including any marginal, special, supplemental, or emergency reserves) are required to be maintained under regulations issued from time to time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) by member banks of the Federal Reserve System against Eurocurrency liabilities (as such term is used in Regulation D).
Restricted Person means any of the Borrowers, Blue Fuels, Natural Fuels, Transtar and, upon consummation of the Acquisition, DCE.
S & P means Standard & Poors Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw Hill Companies, or its successor.
SEC means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
Security Documents means all security agreements, deeds of trust, mortgages, chattel mortgages, pledges, guaranties, financing statements, continuation statements, extension agreements, subordination agreements, intercreditor agreements, and other agreements or instruments now, heretofore, or hereafter delivered by any Restricted Person to the Lender in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby to secure or guarantee the payment of any part of the Obligations or the performance of any Restricted Persons other duties and obligations under the Loan Documents.
Security Schedule means Schedule 2 hereto.
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Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, or other business or corporate entity, enterprise or organization which is directly or indirectly (through one or more intermediaries) controlled by or owned fifty percent or more by such Person.
Taxes means all present or future taxes (including Taxes imposed as a result of a Change in Law), levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
Termination Event means (a) the occurrence with respect to any ERISA Plan of (i) a reportable event described in Section 4043(c)(5) or (6) of ERISA or (ii) any other reportable event described in Section 4043(c) of ERISA other than a reportable event not subject to the provision for 30-day notice to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation pursuant to a waiver by such corporation under Section 4043(a) or 4043(b)(4) of ERISA, or (b) the withdrawal of any ERISA Affiliate from an ERISA Plan during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA, or (c) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate any ERISA Plan or the treatment of any ERISA Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041(c) of ERISA, or (d) the institution of proceedings to terminate any ERISA Plan by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation under Section 4042 of ERISA, or (e) any other event or condition which might constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any ERISA Plan.
Threshold Amount means $500,000.
Transtar means Transtar Energy Company L.P., a Texas limited partnership.
Tribunal means any government, any arbitration panel, any court or any governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality of the United States of America or any state, province, commonwealth, nation, territory, possession, county, parish, town, township, village or municipality, whether now or hereafter constituted or existing.
Section 1.2. Exhibits and Schedules; Additional Definitions. All Exhibits and Schedules attached to this Agreement are a part hereof for all purposes. Reference is hereby made to the Security Schedule for the meaning of certain terms defined therein and used but not defined herein, which definitions are incorporated herein by reference.
Section 1.3. Terms Generally; References and Titles. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words include, includes and including shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase without limitation. The word will shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word shall. Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to
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include such Persons successors and assigns, (c) the words herein, hereof and hereunder, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement, (e) any reference to any law or regulation herein shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time and (f) the words asset and property shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract right. References to any document, instrument, or agreement (a) shall include all exhibits, schedules, and other attachments thereto, and (b) shall include all documents, instruments, or agreements issued or executed in replacement thereof. Titles appearing at the beginning of any subdivisions are for convenience only and do not constitute any part of such subdivisions and shall be disregarded in construing the language contained in such subdivisions. The phrases this section and this subsection and similar phrases refer only to the sections or subsections hereof in which such phrases occur. The word or is not exclusive. Accounting terms have the meanings assigned to them by GAAP, as applied by the accounting entity to which they refer. References to days shall mean calendar days, unless the term Business Day is used. Unless otherwise specified, references herein to any particular Person also refer to its successors and permitted assigns.
Section 1.4. Calculations and Determinations. All calculations under the Loan Documents of interest or fees shall be made on the basis of actual days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last) and a year of 360 days. Each determination by the Lender of amounts to be paid under Article III or any other matters which are to be determined hereunder by the Lender (such as any Business Day or Reserve Requirement) shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein or unless the Lender otherwise consents all financial statements and reports furnished to the Lender hereunder shall be prepared and all financial computations and determinations pursuant hereto shall be made in accordance with GAAP.
Section 1.5. Joint Preparation; Construction of Indemnities and Releases. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents have been reviewed and negotiated by sophisticated parties with access to legal counsel and no rule of construction shall apply hereto or thereto which would require or allow any Loan Document to be construed against any party because of its role in drafting such Loan Document. All indemnification and release provisions of this Agreement shall be construed broadly (and not narrowly) in favor of the Persons receiving indemnification or being released.
ARTICLE II - The Loans
Section 2.1. Commitments to Lend; Notes.
(a) Facility A Loan. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Lender agrees to make a loan upon the Borrowers request at the Closing Date, in the principal amount of $18,000,000 (the Facility A Loan). The obligation of the Borrowers to repay to the Lender the Facility A Loan, together with interest accruing in connection therewith, shall be evidenced by a
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single promissory note (herein called the Facility A Note) made by the Borrowers payable to the order of the Lender in the form of Exhibit A-1 with appropriate insertions. Interest on the Facility A Note shall accrue and be due and payable as provided herein. The Facility A Note shall be due and payable as provided herein, and shall be due and payable in full on the Maturity Date. Amounts borrowed and repaid on the Facility A Loan may not be reborrowed.
(b) Facility B Loans. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Lender agrees to make one or more loans to the Borrowers (herein called the Facility B Loans), upon Borrowers request, provided that such requests occur during the Facility B Commitment Period, and the aggregate amount of Facility B Loans made by Lender, after giving effect to such requested loan does not exceed the Facility B Maximum Credit Amount. The obligation of the Borrowers to repay to the Lender the aggregate amount of all Facility B Loans made by the Lender, together with interest accruing in connection therewith, shall be evidenced by a single promissory note (herein called the Facility B Note) by the Borrowers payable to the order of the Lender in the form of Exhibit A-2 with appropriate insertions . The amount of principal owing on the Facility B Note at any given time shall be the aggregate amount of all Facility B Loans theretofore made by the Lender minus all payments of principal theretofore received by the Lender on the Facility B Note. Interest on the Facility B Note shall accrue and be due and payable as provided herein. The Facility B Note shall be due and payable as provided herein, and shall be due and payable in full on the Maturity Date. Amounts borrowed and repaid on the Facility B Loans may not be reborrowed.
Section 2.2. Requests for Loans. The Borrowers must give to the Lender written or electronic notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of any requested new Facility B Loans (after the first) to be advanced by the Lender. Each such notice constitutes a Borrowing Notice hereunder and must:
Each such written request or confirmation must be made in the form and substance of the Borrowing Notice attached hereto as Exhibit B, duly completed. Each such telephonic request shall be deemed a representation, warranty, acknowledgment and agreement by the Borrowers as to the matters which are required to be set out in such written confirmation. If all conditions precedent to such new Loans have been met, the Lender shall promptly make such Loans available to the Borrowers.
Section 2.3. Use of Proceeds. The Borrowers shall use the Facility A Loan to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Acquisition Documents. The Borrowers shall use the Facility B Loans to (i) fund the Payment Reserve Account, (ii) advance funds to the Project Company pursuant to the Clean Energy Loan Documents, (iii) pay all costs and expenses
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incurred by Borrower in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, and (iv) pay all fees to be paid to the Lender on the Closing Date. In no event shall the funds from any Loan be used directly or indirectly by any Person for personal, family, household or agricultural purposes or for the purpose, whether immediate, incidental or ultimate, of purchasing, acquiring or carrying any margin stock (as such term is defined in Regulation U promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) or to extend credit to others directly or indirectly for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any such margin stock. The Borrowers represent and warrant that the Borrowers are not engaged principally, or as one of the Borrowers important activities, in the business of extending credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying such margin stock.
Section 2.4. Interest Rates and Fees; Payments.
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Section 2.5. Voluntary Prepayments. The Borrowers may with respect to any Loan, from time to time, and without premium or penalty prepay the Loans, in whole or in part. Each prepayment of principal under this section shall be accompanied by all interest then accrued and unpaid on the principal so prepaid. Any principal or interest prepaid pursuant to this section shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, all payments otherwise required to be paid under the Loan Documents at the time of such prepayment.
Section 2.6. Mandatory Prepayments.
Any principal or interest prepaid pursuant to this section shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, all payments otherwise required to be paid under the Loan Documents at the time of such prepayment.
Section 2.7. Payment Reserve Account. The Borrowers agree that they cannot, and will not attempt to, withdraw any monies from the Payment Reserve Account. The Lender may, from time to time, whether not an Event of Default then exists, withdraw funds from the Payment Reserve Account to apply towards scheduled payments of interest and principal then due on the Loans.
Section 3.1. General Procedures. The Borrowers will make each payment which they owes under the Loan Documents to the Lender in lawful money of the United States of America, without set-off, deduction or counterclaim, and in immediately available funds. Each such payment must be received by the Lender not later than noon, Dallas, Texas time, on the date such
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payment becomes due and payable. Any payment received by the Lender after such time will be deemed to have been made on the next following Business Day. Should any such payment become due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, the maturity of such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of a payment of principal or past due interest, interest shall accrue and be payable thereon for the period of such extension as provided in the Loan Document under which such payment is due. All payments applied to principal or interest on any Note shall be applied first to any interest then due and payable, then to principal then due and payable, and last to any prepayment of principal and interest.
Section 3.2. Increased Costs.
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by the Lender hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon request of the Lender, the Borrowers will pay to the Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate the Lender for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered. This Section 3.2 shall not apply to Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes covered by Section 3.3, which shall be exclusively governed by Section 3.3.
(c) Certificates for Reimbursement. A certificate of the Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate the Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section and delivered to the Borrowers shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay the Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within ten (10) days after receipt thereof.
Section 3.3. Taxes.
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ARTICLE IV - Conditions Precedent to Lending
Section 4.1. Documents to be Delivered. The Lender has no obligation to make the Facility A Loan or its first Facility B Loan unless the Lender shall have received all of the following, duly executed and delivered (as appropriate) and in form, substance and date satisfactory to the Lender:
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Section 4.2. Closing of Acquisition. The Lender has no obligation to make the Facility A Loan or the first Facility B Loan unless contemporaneously with the Facility A Loan, Borrowers shall have consummated the transactions contemplated under the Acquisition Documents, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender, and the DCE Post Closing Merger shall have occurred. Borrowers, for themselves and on behalf of each Restricted Person, hereby acknowledge and agree that the consummation of the transactions contemplated under this Agreement and the Acquisition Documents, including without limitation the making of the Facility A Loan, and the DCE Post Closing Merger are intended to be simultaneous for all intents and purposes.
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Section 4.3. Additional Conditions Precedent. The Lender has no obligation to make any Loan (including its first) unless the following conditions precedent have been satisfied:
ARTICLE V - Representations and Warranties
To confirm the Lenders understanding concerning Restricted Persons and Restricted Persons businesses, properties and obligations and to induce the Lender to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit hereunder, each Borrower jointly and severally represents and warrants to the Lender that:
Section 5.1. No Default. No Restricted Person is in default in the performance of any of its covenants and agreements contained in any Loan Document. No event has occurred and is continuing which constitutes a Default.
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To conform with the terms and conditions under which the Lender is willing to have credit outstanding to the Borrowers, and to induce the Lender to enter into this Agreement and extend credit hereunder, each Borrower jointly and severally warrants, covenants and agrees that until the full and final payment of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement (as determined without regard to unasserted indemnity claims), unless the Lender has previously agreed otherwise:
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(g) By March 1 of each year, an engineering report prepared by Independent Engineers as of December 31 of the immediately preceding year concerning the McCommas Bluff Gas Plant. This report shall be satisfactory to the Lender and shall contain information and analysis comparable in scope to that contained in the Initial Engineering Report.
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Upon the occurrence of any of the foregoing Restricted Persons will take all necessary or appropriate steps to remedy promptly any such Material Adverse Change, Default, acceleration, default, or Termination Event, to protect against any such adverse claim, to defend any such suit or proceeding, and to resolve all controversies on account of any of the foregoing. Borrowers will also notify the Lender and the Lenders counsel in writing at least twenty Business Days prior to the date that any Restricted Person changes its name or the location of its chief executive office or its location under the Uniform Commercial Code.
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Section 6.18. Lockbox. As soon as possible after the Closing, the Borrowers shall, and shall cause each other Restricted Person who grants a Lien on its Accounts to Lender to, notify all account debtors to make payments with respect to their Accounts directly to the Lockbox. Any payments received by the Borrowers with respect to their Accounts by wire transfer shall be
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To conform with the terms and conditions under which the Lender is willing to have credit outstanding to the Borrowers, and to induce the Lender to enter into this Agreement and make the Loans, each Borrower jointly and severally warrants, covenants and agrees that until the full and final payment of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement (as determined without regard to unasserted indemnity claims), unless the Lender has previously agreed otherwise:
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Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in subsection (j)(i), (j)(ii) or (j)(iii) of this section with respect to any Restricted Person, all of the Obligations shall thereupon be immediately due and payable, without demand, presentment, notice of demand or of dishonor and nonpayment, protest, notice of protest, notice of intention to accelerate, declaration or notice of acceleration, or any other notice or declaration of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by Borrowers and each Restricted Person who at any time ratifies or approves this Agreement. Upon any such acceleration, any obligation of the Lender to make any further Loans hereunder shall be permanently terminated. During the continuance of any other Event of Default, the Lender at any time and from time to time may, without notice to Borrowers or any other Restricted Person, do either or both of the following: (1) terminate any obligation the Lender to make Loans hereunder, and (2) declare any or all of the Obligations immediately due and payable, and all such Obligations shall thereupon be immediately due and payable, without demand, presentment, notice of demand or of dishonor and nonpayment, protest, notice of protest, notice of intention to accelerate, declaration or notice of acceleration, or any other notice or declaration of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by Borrowers and each Restricted Person who at any time ratifies or approves this Agreement.
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THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES.
Notices sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by facsimile shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient). Notices delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in subsection (b) below, shall be effective as provided in said subsection (b).
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Unless the Lender otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the senders receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the return receipt requested function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement), provided that if such notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor.
(c) Change of Address, Etc. Each of the Borrowers, any other Restricted Person and the Lender may change its address, facsimile or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto.
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For purposes of this Section, Information means all information received from the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries relating to Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries or any of their respective businesses, other than any such information that is available to the Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries, provided that, in the case of information received from the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.
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SCHEDULE 1
DISCLOSURE SCHEDULE
To supplement the following sections of the Agreement of which this Schedule is a part, Borrower hereby makes the following disclosures:
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SCHEDULE 2
SECURITY SCHEDULE
1. Pledge Agreement of even date herewith executed by Clean Energy in favor of the Lender pursuant to which Clean Energy grants a security interest in all of its ownership interests in the Project Company.
2. Security Agreement of even date herewith executed by the Borrowers, Blue Fuels, Natural Fuels and Transtar in favor of the Lender pursuant to which the Borrowers, Blue Fuels, Natural Fuels and Transtar each grant a security interest in all of their accounts receivable, inventory, and deposit accounts that are held with the Lender.
3. Security Agreement of even date herewith executed by the Borrowers in favor of the Lender pursuant to which the Borrowers grant a security interest in the tanker trailers listed therein.
4. Collateral Assignment and Security Agreement of even date herewith executed by Clean Energy in favor of the Lender pursuant to which Clean Energy grants a security interest in, and collaterally assigns, the Clean Energy Loan Documents to Lender.
5. Agreement Concerning Lease of even date herewith executed by Clean Energy and DCE for the benefit of Lender.
EXHIBIT A-1
PROMISSORY NOTE
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP., a Delaware corporation, and CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation (each a Borrower, and collectively, Borrowers), hereby jointly and severally promise to pay to the order of PLAINSCAPITAL BANK, a Texas state chartered bank (the Lender), the principal sum of Eighteen Million Dollars ($18,000,000), or, if greater or less, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Facility A Loans made by Lender to Borrowers pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement (as hereinafter defined), together with interest on the unpaid principal balance thereof as set forth in the Credit Agreement, both principal and interest payable as herein provided in lawful money of the United States of America at the offices of Lender under the Credit Agreement, at 2911 Turtle Creek Boulevard, Suite 1300, Dallas, Texas 75219 or at such other place within Dallas County, Texas, as from time to time may be designated by the holder of this Note.
This Note (a) is issued and delivered under that certain Credit Agreement of even date herewith among Borrowers and the Lender (as from time to time supplemented, amended or restated, the Credit Agreement), and is the Facility A Note as defined therein, (b) is subject to the terms and provisions of the Credit Agreement, which contains provisions for payments and prepayments hereunder and acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the happening of certain stated events, and (c) is secured by and entitled to the benefits of certain Security Documents (as identified and defined in the Credit Agreement). Payments on this Note shall be made and applied as provided in the Credit Agreement. Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement for a description of certain rights, limitations of rights, obligations and duties of the parties hereto and for the meanings assigned to terms used and not defined herein and to the Security Documents for a description of the nature and extent of the security thereby provided and the rights of the parties thereto.
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph and all other provisions of this Note, in no event shall the interest payable hereon, whether before or after maturity, exceed the maximum amount of interest which, under applicable Law, may be contracted for, charged, or received on this Note, and this Note is expressly made subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement which more fully set out the limitations on how interest accrues hereon. In the event applicable Law provides for an interest ceiling under Chapter 303 of the Texas Finance Code (the Texas Finance Code) as amended, for that day, the ceiling shall be the weekly ceiling as defined in the Texas Finance Code and shall be used in this Note for calculating the Highest Lawful Rate and for all other purposes. The term applicable law as used in this Note shall mean the laws of the State of Texas or the laws of the United States, whichever laws allow the greater interest, as such laws now exist or may be changed or amended or come into effect in the future.
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If this Note is placed in the hands of an attorney for collection after default, or if all or any part of the indebtedness represented hereby is proved, established or collected in any court or in any bankruptcy, receivership, debtor relief, probate or other court proceedings, each Borrower and all endorsers, sureties and guarantors of this Note jointly and severally agree to pay reasonable attorneys fees and collection costs to the holder hereof in addition to the principal and interest payable hereunder.
Each Borrower and all endorsers, sureties and guarantors of this Note hereby severally waive demand, presentment, notice of demand and of dishonor and nonpayment of this Note, protest, notice of protest, notice of intention to accelerate the maturity of this Note, declaration or notice of acceleration of the maturity of this Note, diligence in collecting, the bringing of any suit against any party and any notice of or defense on account of any extensions, renewals, partial payments or changes in any manner of or in this Note or in any of its terms, provisions and covenants, or any releases or substitutions of any security, or any delay, indulgence or other act of any trustee or any holder hereof, whether before or after maturity.
This Note and the rights and duties of the parties hereto shall be governed by the Laws of the State of Texas (without regard to principles of conflicts of law), except to the extent the same are governed by applicable federal Law.
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PROMISSORY NOTE
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP., a Delaware corporation, and CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation (each a Borrower, and collectively, Borrowers), hereby jointly and severally promise to pay to the order of PLAINSCAPITAL BANK, a Texas state chartered bank (the Lender), the principal sum of Twelve Million Dollars ($12,000,000), or, if greater or less, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Facility B Loans made by Lender to Borrowers pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement (as hereinafter defined), together with interest on the unpaid principal balance thereof as set forth in the Credit Agreement, both principal and interest payable as herein provided in lawful money of the United States of America at the offices of Lender under the Credit Agreement, at 2911 Turtle Creek Boulevard, Suite 1300, Dallas, Texas 75219 or at such other place within Dallas County, Texas, as from time to time may be designated by the holder of this Note.
This Note (a) is issued and delivered under that certain Credit Agreement of even date herewith among Borrowers and the Lender (as from time to time supplemented, amended or restated, the Credit Agreement), and is the Facility B Note as defined therein, (b) is subject to the terms and provisions of the Credit Agreement, which contains provisions for payments and prepayments hereunder and acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the happening of certain stated events, and (c) is secured by and entitled to the benefits of certain Security Documents (as identified and defined in the Credit Agreement). Payments on this Note shall be made and applied as provided in the Credit Agreement. Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement for a description of certain rights, limitations of rights, obligations and duties of the parties hereto and for the meanings assigned to terms used and not defined herein and to the Security Documents for a description of the nature and extent of the security thereby provided and the rights of the parties thereto.
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph and all other provisions of this Note, in no event shall the interest payable hereon, whether before or after maturity, exceed the maximum amount of interest which, under applicable Law, may be contracted for, charged, or received on this Note, and this Note is expressly made subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement which more fully set out the limitations on how interest accrues hereon. In the event applicable Law provides for an interest ceiling under Chapter 303 of the Texas Finance Code (the Texas Finance Code) as amended, for that day, the ceiling shall be the weekly ceiling as defined in the Texas Finance Code and shall be used in this Note for calculating the Highest Lawful Rate and for all other purposes. The term applicable law as used in this Note shall mean the laws of the State of Texas or the laws of the United States, whichever laws allow the greater interest, as such laws now exist or may be changed or amended or come into effect in the future.
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If this Note is placed in the hands of an attorney for collection after default, or if all or any part of the indebtedness represented hereby is proved, established or collected in any court or in any bankruptcy, receivership, debtor relief, probate or other court proceedings, each Borrower and all endorsers, sureties and guarantors of this Note jointly and severally agree to pay reasonable attorneys fees and collection costs to the holder hereof in addition to the principal and interest payable hereunder.
Each Borrower and all endorsers, sureties and guarantors of this Note hereby severally waive demand, presentment, notice of demand and of dishonor and nonpayment of this Note, protest, notice of protest, notice of intention to accelerate the maturity of this Note, declaration or notice of acceleration of the maturity of this Note, diligence in collecting, the bringing of any suit against any party and any notice of or defense on account of any extensions, renewals, partial payments or changes in any manner of or in this Note or in any of its terms, provisions and covenants, or any releases or substitutions of any security, or any delay, indulgence or other act of any trustee or any holder hereof, whether before or after maturity.
This Note and the rights and duties of the parties hereto shall be governed by the Laws of the State of Texas (without regard to principles of conflicts of law), except to the extent the same are governed by applicable federal Law.
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EXHIBIT B
BORROWING NOTICE
Reference is made to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of August 15, 2008 (as amended or supplemented, the Agreement), by and among Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and Clean Energy (each a Borrower, and collectively Borrowers) and PLAINSCAPITAL BANK (the Lender). Terms which are defined in the Agreement are used herein with the meanings given them in the Agreement. Borrowers hereby requests a new Facility B Loan to be advanced pursuant to Section 2.1 of the Agreement as follows:
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Attached hereto is a copy of the request for a new loan made by CE Dallas under the Clean Energy Loan Documents, together with all supporting documentation therefore.
To induce the Lender to make such Loan, Borrowers hereby jointly and severally represent, warrant, acknowledge, and agree to and with the Lender that:
(a) The officers of Borrowers signing this instrument are the duly elected, qualified and acting officer of Borrowers as indicated below such officers signature hereto having all necessary authority to act for Borrowers in making the request herein contained.
(b) The representations and warranties of Borrowers set forth in the Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all respects on and as of the date hereof (except to the extent that the facts on which such representations and warranties are based have been changed by the extension of credit under the Agreement), with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date hereof, except for any such representation or warranty that expressly applies to a specified earlier date, in which case such representation or warranty shall have been true in all material respects on and as of such earlier date.
(c) There does not exist on the date hereof any condition or event which constitutes a Default which has not been waived in writing as provided in Section 9.1(a) of the Agreement; nor will any such Default exist upon Borrowers receipt and application of the Loans requested hereby. Borrowers will use the Loans hereby requested in compliance with Section 2.4 of the Agreement.
(d) Except to the extent waived in writing as provided in Section 9.1(a) of the Agreement, Borrowers have performed and complied with all agreements and conditions in the Agreement required to be performed or complied with by Borrowers on or prior to the date hereof, and each of the conditions precedent to Loans contained in the Agreement remains satisfied..
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(e) The Loan Documents have not been modified, amended or supplemented by any unwritten representations or promises, by any course of dealing, or by any other means not provided for in Section 9.1(a) of the Agreement. The Agreement and the other Loan Documents are hereby ratified, approved, and confirmed in all respects.
The officers of Borrowers signing this instrument hereby certify that, to the best of their knowledge after due inquiry, the above representations, warranties, acknowledgments, and agreements of Borrowers are true, correct and complete.
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EXHIBIT C
CERTIFICATE ACCOMPANYING
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Reference is made to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of August 15, 2008 (as amended or supplemented, the Agreement), by and among CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP. and CLEAN ENERGY (each a Borrower and collectively, Borrowers), and PLAINSCAPITAL BANK, (the Lender), which Agreement is in full force and effect on the date hereof. Terms which are defined in the Agreement are used herein with the meanings given them in the Agreement.
This Certificate is furnished pursuant to Section 6.2(d) of the Agreement. Together herewith Borrowers are furnishing to the Lender Borrowers*[audited/unaudited] financial statements (the Financial Statements) as at (the Reporting Date). Each Borrower hereby jointly and severally represents, warrants, and acknowledges to the Lender that:
(a) the officers of Borrowers signing this instrument are the duly elected, qualified and acting of Borrowers and as such are Borrowers chief financial officers;
(b) the Financial Statements are accurate and complete and satisfy the requirements of the Agreement;
(c) attached hereto is a schedule of calculations showing Borrowers compliance as of the Reporting Date with the requirements of Sections 7.10 through 7.14 of the Agreement *[and Borrowers non-compliance as of such date with the requirements of Section(s) of the Agreement];
(d) attached hereto is a report setting forth agings of all Accounts Receivable of the Borrowers as of the Reporting Date;
(e) on the Reporting Date Borrowers were, and on the date hereof Borrower are, in full compliance with the disclosure requirements of Section 6.4 of the Agreement, and no Default otherwise existed on the Reporting Date or otherwise exists on the date of this instrument *[except for Default(s) under Section(s) of the Agreement, which *[is/are] more fully described on a schedule attached hereto].
(f) *[Unless otherwise disclosed on a schedule attached hereto,] The representations and warranties of Borrowers set forth in the Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true and correct on and as of the date hereof (except to the extent that the facts on which such representations and warranties are based have been changed by the extension of credit under the Agreement), with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date hereof.
The officers of Borrowers signing this instrument hereby certify that they have reviewed the Loan Documents and the Financial Statements and have otherwise undertaken such inquiry as is in their opinion necessary to enable them to express an informed opinion with respect to the above representations, warranties and acknowledgments of Borrowers and, to the best of their knowledge, such representations, warranties, and acknowledgments are true, correct and complete.
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Exhibit 99.10
PROMISSORY NOTE
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP., a Delaware corporation, and CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation (each a Borrower, and collectively, Borrowers), hereby jointly and severally promise to pay to the order of PLAINSCAPITAL BANK, a Texas state chartered bank (the Lender), the principal sum of Eighteen Million Dollars ($18,000,000), or, if greater or less, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Facility A Loans made by Lender to Borrowers pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement (as hereinafter defined), together with interest on the unpaid principal balance thereof as set forth in the Credit Agreement, both principal and interest payable as herein provided in lawful money of the United States of America at the offices of Lender under the Credit Agreement, at 2911 Turtle Creek Boulevard, Suite 1300, Dallas, Texas 75219 or at such other place within Dallas County, Texas, as from time to time may be designated by the holder of this Note.
This Note (a) is issued and delivered under that certain Credit Agreement of even date herewith among Borrowers and the Lender (as from time to time supplemented, amended or restated, the Credit Agreement), and is the Facility A Note as defined therein, (b) is subject to the terms and provisions of the Credit Agreement, which contains provisions for payments and prepayments hereunder and acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the happening of certain stated events, and (c) is secured by and entitled to the benefits of certain Security Documents (as identified and defined in the Credit Agreement). Payments on this Note shall be made and applied as provided in the Credit Agreement. Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement for a description of certain rights, limitations of rights, obligations and duties of the parties hereto and for the meanings assigned to terms used and not defined herein and to the Security Documents for a description of the nature and extent of the security thereby provided and the rights of the parties thereto.
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph and all other provisions of this Note, in no event shall the interest payable hereon, whether before or after maturity, exceed the maximum amount of interest which, under applicable Law, may be contracted for, charged, or received on this Note, and this Note is expressly made subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement which more fully set out the limitations on how interest accrues hereon. In the event applicable Law provides for an interest ceiling under Chapter 303 of the Texas Finance Code (the Texas Finance Code) as amended, for that day, the ceiling shall be the weekly ceiling as defined in the Texas Finance Code and shall be used in this Note for calculating the Highest Lawful Rate and for all other purposes. The term applicable law as used in this Note shall mean the laws of the State of Texas or the laws of the United States, whichever laws allow the greater interest, as such laws now exist or may be changed or amended or come into effect in the future.
If this Note is placed in the hands of an attorney for collection after default, or if all or any part of the indebtedness represented hereby is proved, established or collected in any court or in any bankruptcy, receivership, debtor relief, probate or other court proceedings, each Borrower and all endorsers, sureties and guarantors of this Note jointly and severally agree to pay reasonable attorneys fees and collection costs to the holder hereof in addition to the principal and interest payable hereunder.
Each Borrower and all endorsers, sureties and guarantors of this Note hereby severally waive demand, presentment, notice of demand and of dishonor and nonpayment of this Note, protest, notice of protest, notice of intention to accelerate the maturity of this Note, declaration or notice of acceleration of the maturity of this Note, diligence in collecting, the bringing of any suit against any party and any notice of or defense on account of any extensions, renewals, partial payments or changes in any manner of or in this Note or in any of its terms, provisions and covenants, or any releases or substitutions of any security, or any delay, indulgence or other act of any trustee or any holder hereof, whether before or after maturity.
This Note and the rights and duties of the parties hereto shall be governed by the Laws of the State of Texas (without regard to principles of conflicts of law), except to the extent the same are governed by applicable federal Law.
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Exhibit 99.11
PROMISSORY NOTE
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP., a Delaware corporation, and CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation (each a Borrower, and collectively, Borrowers), hereby jointly and severally promise to pay to the order of PLAINSCAPITAL BANK, a Texas state chartered bank (the Lender), the principal sum of Twelve Million Dollars ($12,000,000), or, if greater or less, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Facility B Loans made by Lender to Borrowers pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement (as hereinafter defined), together with interest on the unpaid principal balance thereof as set forth in the Credit Agreement, both principal and interest payable as herein provided in lawful money of the United States of America at the offices of Lender under the Credit Agreement, at 2911 Turtle Creek Boulevard, Suite 1300, Dallas, Texas 75219 or at such other place within Dallas County, Texas, as from time to time may be designated by the holder of this Note.
This Note (a) is issued and delivered under that certain Credit Agreement of even date herewith among Borrowers and the Lender (as from time to time supplemented, amended or restated, the Credit Agreement), and is the Facility B Note as defined therein, (b) is subject to the terms and provisions of the Credit Agreement, which contains provisions for payments and prepayments hereunder and acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the happening of certain stated events, and (c) is secured by and entitled to the benefits of certain Security Documents (as identified and defined in the Credit Agreement). Payments on this Note shall be made and applied as provided in the Credit Agreement. Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement for a description of certain rights, limitations of rights, obligations and duties of the parties hereto and for the meanings assigned to terms used and not defined herein and to the Security Documents for a description of the nature and extent of the security thereby provided and the rights of the parties thereto.
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph and all other provisions of this Note, in no event shall the interest payable hereon, whether before or after maturity, exceed the maximum amount of interest which, under applicable Law, may be contracted for, charged, or received on this Note, and this Note is expressly made subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement which more fully set out the limitations on how interest accrues hereon. In the event applicable Law provides for an interest ceiling under Chapter 303 of the Texas Finance Code (the Texas Finance Code) as amended, for that day, the ceiling shall be the weekly ceiling as defined in the Texas Finance Code and shall be used in this Note for calculating the Highest Lawful Rate and for all other purposes. The term applicable law as used in this Note shall mean the laws of the State of Texas or the laws of the United States, whichever laws allow the greater interest, as such laws now exist or may be changed or amended or come into effect in the future.
If this Note is placed in the hands of an attorney for collection after default, or if all or any part of the indebtedness represented hereby is proved, established or collected in any court or in any bankruptcy, receivership, debtor relief, probate or other court proceedings, each Borrower and all endorsers, sureties and guarantors of this Note jointly and severally agree to pay reasonable attorneys fees and collection costs to the holder hereof in addition to the principal and interest payable hereunder.
Each Borrower and all endorsers, sureties and guarantors of this Note hereby severally waive demand, presentment, notice of demand and of dishonor and nonpayment of this Note, protest, notice of protest, notice of intention to accelerate the maturity of this Note, declaration or notice of acceleration of the maturity of this Note, diligence in collecting, the bringing of any suit against any party and any notice of or defense on account of any extensions, renewals, partial payments or changes in any manner of or in this Note or in any of its terms, provisions and covenants, or any releases or substitutions of any security, or any delay, indulgence or other act of any trustee or any holder hereof, whether before or after maturity.
This Note and the rights and duties of the parties hereto shall be governed by the Laws of the State of Texas (without regard to principles of conflicts of law), except to the extent the same are governed by applicable federal Law.
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Exhibit 99.12
COLLATERAL ASSIGNMENT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
This COLLATERAL ASSIGNMENT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (Assignment) is made by CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation (Assignor), doing business in the State of Texas as California Clean Energy Corp., for the benefit of PLAINSCAPITAL BANK, a Texas state bank (Assignee) as of August 15, 2008.
RECITALS
A. Assignor and Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a Delaware corporation, collectively as borrowers, and Assignee, as lender, have entered into that certain Credit Agreement of even date herewith (as from time to time amended, modified or restated, the Credit Agreement).
B. Assignor is the present owner and holder of that certain Promissory Note (as from time to time amended, modified or restated, the Note) described in Exhibit A hereto.
C. The Note is secured by the Security Agreement (as from time to time amended, modified or restated, the Security Agreement) described on Exhibit A. The Note, the Security Agreement, and all other documents described in Exhibit A, as from time to time amended, modified or restated are referred to herein as the Collateral Loan Documents and the loan evidenced and secured thereby is referred to herein as the Collateral Loan.
D. Assignor has agreed to collaterally assign and grant a security interest in all of Assignors rights, titles, and interests in and to the Note, the Security Agreement, and the other Collateral Loan Documents to Assignee, as security for the payment of the Obligations (as defined in the Credit Agreement).
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the sum of TEN AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($10.00) and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged and confessed, and for the mutual and dependent covenants herein contained, Assignor does hereby agree, represent, warrant and certify to Assignee as follows:
1. Defined Terms. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined have the meanings given them in the Credit Agreement.
2. Assignment. Assignor does by these presents TRANSFER, ASSIGN, PLEDGE, SELL, CONVEY and GRANT a security interest unto Assignee (i) the Note, (ii) the Security Agreement, (iii) the other Collateral Loan Documents, (iv) all attendant rights, titles, liens, assignments and interests arising thereunder or pertaining to the foregoing, and (v) all proceeds, increases, substitutions, and products thereto (all of the foregoing being sometimes hereinafter referred to herein as the Collateral) as security for the prompt and complete payment and performance when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations.
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3. Representations. The Collateral Loan Documents have not been modified, amended, released or terminated in any manner. The Collateral Loan Documents are in good standing and in full force and effect, no uncured breaches or defaults exist thereunder and to the actual knowledge of Assignor, no event has occurred or circumstance exists which, with the passing of time and/or giving of notice, will constitute a default or breach under the Collateral Loan Documents, and there are no defenses, counterclaims or offsets to the Collateral Loan Documents.
4. Delivery of Collateral Loan Documents and other Collateral. Concurrently herewith, Assignor agrees to endorse the Note to Assignee as follows: Pay to the order of PlainsCapital Bank with full recourse, and with full warranty and representation as specified in that certain Collateral Assignment and Security Agreement dated August , 2008, from the undersigned to PlainsCapital Bank. Assignor will immediately deliver to Assignee all additional property which may now or hereafter constitute a part of the Collateral upon receipt by Assignor of such Collateral, with proper instruments of transfer and assignment, if necessary to perfect the security interest hereby granted or if otherwise required pursuant to this Assignment.
5. Assignors Warranties, Covenants and Further Agreements.
(a) Title. Except for the assignment and security interest in paragraph 2 hereof, Assignor has full and complete title to the Collateral free from any lien, pledge, assignment, security interest, encumbrance or claim and Assignor will, during the term of this Assignment, at Assignors cost, keep the Collateral free from other liens, pledges, assignments, security interests, encumbrances or claims, and defend any action, claim or demand which may affect the security interest or Assignors title or interest in and to the Collateral. This Assignment and any money, account, instrument or document which is, or shall be, included in the Collateral is, and shall be, genuine and legally enforceable and free from any setoff, counterclaim or defense.
(b) Perfection. No financing statement covering the Collateral or any part or proceeds thereof is on file in any public office except any such financing statement in favor of Assignor, each of which names Assignee as an additional secured party. Assignor agrees that Assignee may file all financing statements, financing statement amendments and other instruments deemed necessary by Assignee to perfect and continue the security interest in the Collateral (including, without limitation, an assignment to Assignee of the financing statement described on Exhibit A), and Assignor will pay all costs with respect thereof. Assignor further agrees that Assignees security interest in the assets pledged to secure the Collateral Loan (including, but not limited to, the assets pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement and the Cambrian Pledge) is prior and superior to Assignors security interest therein.
(c) Disposal. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, Assignor will not sell, lease, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of all or part of the Collateral other than to Assignee pursuant to the terms hereof.
(d) Notice of Changes. Assignor will immediately notify Assignee of any change occurring in or to the Collateral or in any fact or circumstance warranted or represented by Assignor to Assignee, or if any default occurs under the Note or other Collateral Loan Documents.
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(e) Note. Assignor shall, at Assignors expense, take all reasonable and appropriate steps when necessary to enforce collection of the Note and performance of the other Collateral Loan Documents.
6. Rights of Assignee. Assignor hereby appoints Assignee as Assignors attorney-in-fact, which appointment is coupled with an interest and is thereby irrevocable, to do any act which Assignor is obligated by this Assignment to do, to exercise all rights of Assignor in the Collateral, and to do all things deemed necessary by Assignee to perfect and continue the security interest granted hereby and to preserve, collect, enforce and protect the Collateral, all at Assignors sole cost and expense and without any obligation on Assignee to so act, including, but not limited to, transferring title into the name of Assignee, or its nominee, or settling or otherwise realizing upon the Collateral. Assignee may, in its discretion, do the following: endorse as Assignors agent, any instruments or documents constituting or evidencing the Collateral; and/or take control of the Collateral and use it to reduce any part of the Obligations. ASSIGNEE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY ACT OR OMISSION ON THE PART OF ASSIGNEE, ITS OFFICERS, AGENT OR EMPLOYEES, INCLUDING ACTS OR OMISSIONS WHICH ARISE AS THE RESULT OF THE NEGLIGENCE OF ASSIGNEE, ITS OFFICERS, AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES, except for willful misconduct and gross negligence, nor shall Assignee be responsible for depreciation in value of the Collateral, or for preservation of rights of Assignor against any third parties. The foregoing rights and powers of Assignee may be exercised after the occurrence of an Event of Default and shall be in addition to, and not a limitation upon, any rights and powers of Assignee given herein or by law, custom or otherwise.
7. Remedies of Assignee upon Default. During the existence of an Event of Default, Assignee may declare all or any part of the Obligations immediately due and payable and may proceed to enforce payment of same and to exercise any and all of the rights and remedies provided by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of Texas (Code), as well as other rights and remedies possessed by Assignee under this Assignment or otherwise at law or in equity. For purposes of the notice requirements of the Code, Assignee and Assignor agree that notice given at least ten (10) calendar days prior to the related action hereunder is reasonable. Assignee shall be entitled to immediate possession of the Collateral and all books and records evidencing same and shall have authority to enter upon Assignors premises, upon which said items may be situated, and remove same therefrom. Expenses of holding, preparing for sale, selling, or the like, shall include, without limitation, Assignees reasonable attorneys fees to the extent allowed by the Code. Assignee may use its discretion in applying the proceeds of any disposition of the Collateral, but in conformity with the Code. All rights and remedies of Assignee hereunder are cumulative and may be exercised singularly or concurrently. The exercise of any right or remedy will not be a waiver of any other such rights or remedies available to Assignee.
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(a) Waiver by Assignee. No waiver by Assignee of any right hereunder or of any default of Assignor shall be binding upon Assignee unless in writing executed by Assignee. Failure or delay by Assignee to exercise any right hereunder or waiver of any default of Assignor shall not operate as a waiver of any other right, or any further exercise of such right, in connection with other default hereunder.
(b) Parties Bound. This Assignment shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors, receivers, trustees and assigns where permitted by this Assignment.
(c) Governing Law. This Assignment shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, except to the extent that perfection and the effect of perfection or non-perfection of the security interest created hereby are governed by the laws of a jurisdiction other than the State of Texas.
(d) Notices. All notices, requests, demands or other communications required or permitted to be given pursuant to this Assignment shall be given as provided in the Credit Agreement.
(e) Modification. This Assignment shall not be amended in any way except by a written agreement signed by all parties hereto.
(f) Severability. The unenforceability of any provision of this Assignment shall not affect the enforceability or validity of any other provision hereof.
(g) Waiver by Assignor. Assignor hereby waives presentment, demand, notice of dishonor, protest, and notice of protest, and all other notices with respect to collection, or acceleration of maturity, of the Collateral and the Obligations, except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in the Loan Documents.
9. Termination. Upon the full, final, and complete payment of the Obligations, and the performance of all covenants contained in the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, upon written request by Assignor, Assignee shall endorse, without recourse, warranty or representation, the Note to Assignor and shall, at Assignors expense, execute and record all such documents as shall be necessary to terminate and release this Assignment and any financing statements filed by Assignee pursuant to Section 5(b) of this Assignment.
10. Acceptance By Assignee. By its acceptance of the benefits hereof, the Assignee shall be deemed to have agreed to be bound hereby and to perform any obligation on its part set forth herein.
EXECUTED AND DELIVERED effective as of the date first set forth above.
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EXHIBIT A
(Description of Collateral Loan Documents)
Except where otherwise indicated below, all documents are dated as of August 15, 2008.
1. Promissory Note in the principal amount of $14,000,000 executed by CE Dallas Renewables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (Borrower) and payable to the order of Assignor.
2. Security Agreement executed by Borrower in favor of Assignor.
3. UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Borrower, as debtor, and Assignor and Assignee, as secured party, to be filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.
4. UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Dallas Clean Energy, LLC, as debtor, and Assignor and Assignee, as secured party, to be filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.
5. Loan Agreement executed by Borrower and Assignor.
6. Subordination of Management Fees executed by Cambrian Energy McCommas Bluff LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (Cambrian), and Borrower in favor of Assignor.
7. Guaranty executed by Cambrian in favor of Assignor.
8. Pledge Agreement executed by Cambrian in favor of Assignor (the Cambrian Pledge).
9. UCC-1 Financing Statement naming Cambrian, as debtor, and Assignor and Assignee, as secured party, filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.
Exhibit 99.13
SECURITY AGREEMENT
dated as of August 15, 2008
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CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP.
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ARTICLE V Remedies, Powers and Authorizations |
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Section 5.1. |
Normal Provisions Concerning the Collateral |
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Section 5.2. |
Event of Default Remedies |
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Section 5.3. |
Application of Proceeds |
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Section 5.4. |
Deficiency |
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Section 5.5. |
Non-Judicial Remedies |
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Section 5.6. |
Limitation on Duty of the Secured Party in Respect of Collateral |
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Appointment of Other Agents |
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Section 6.1. |
Notices |
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Section 6.2. |
Amendments and Waivers |
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Section 6.3. |
Preservation of Rights |
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Severability |
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Section 6.5. |
Survival |
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Section 6.6. |
Binding Effect and Assignment |
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Section 6.7. |
Termination |
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Section 6.8. |
Governing Law |
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Section 6.9. |
Final Agreement |
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Section 6.10. |
Counterparts; Facsimile |
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Acceptance by the Secured Party |
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Schedules
Schedule 1 |
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THIS SECURITY AGREEMENT is made as of August 15, 2008, by CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP., a Delaware corporation, and CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation (each, a Grantor and collectively the Grantors) in favor of PLAINSCAPITAL BANK, as Lender under the Credit Agreement (the Secured Party).
RECITALS
The Grantors and the Secured Party are parties to the Credit Agreement dated as of even date herewith (the Credit Agreement).
Pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Secured Party has agreed to extend credit to the Grantors.
In order to induce the Secured Party to extend such credit, each Grantor has agreed to grant to the Secured Party a security interest in the Collateral.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and for other valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which the parties acknowledge, each Grantor agrees as follows:
Section 1.1. Definitions in Credit Agreement. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the respective meanings specified in the Credit Agreement.
Section 1.2. Definitions in this Agreement. The following terms have the following meanings:
Collateral means, with respect to any Grantor, all property described in Section 2.1 in which such Grantor has any right, title or interest. References to Collateral herein with respect to a Grantor are intended to refer to Collateral in which such Grantor has any right, title or interest and not to Collateral in which any other Grantor has any right, title or interest.
Credit Agreement has the meaning specified in Recital A.
Grantor means each Person granting a security interest in any Collateral pursuant to this Agreement. References to Grantor in this Agreement are intended to refer to each such Person as if such Person were the only grantor pursuant to this Agreement, except:
(a) that references to any Grantor are meant to refer to each Person that is a Grantor,
(b) that references to the Grantors are meant to refer to collectively to all Persons that are Grantors, and
(c) as otherwise may be specifically set forth herein.
Secured Obligations means all Obligations of all Restricted Persons now or hereafter arising under the Loan Documents.
Secured Party has the meaning specified in the preamble.
UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in the State of Texas from time to time; provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of Texas, UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.
Section 2.1. Grant of Security Interest. As collateral security for the payment and performance of all Secured Obligations, Grantor pledges, collaterally assigns and grants to the Secured Party a continuing security interest in all right, title and interest of Grantor in and to all of the following property, whether now owned or existing or hereafter acquired or arising, regardless of where located and howsoever Grantors interests therein arise, whether by ownership, security interest, claim or otherwise:
Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 2.1 does not grant a security interest in any property to the extent that such grant is prohibited under any agreement relating to such property and the violation of such prohibition would cause Grantor to lose its interest in or rights with respect to such property, except to the extent that Part 5 of Chapter 9 of the UCC would render such prohibition ineffective.
Section 2.2. Secured Obligations Secured. The security interest created hereby in the Collateral secures the payment and performance of all Secured Obligations.
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Section 3.1. Representations and Warranties. Grantor represents and warrants to the Secured Party as follows:
Section 4.1. General Covenants Applicable to Collateral. Grantor will, so long as this Agreement shall be in effect, perform and observe the following:
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As part of the foregoing, Grantor will, whenever requested by the Secured Party:
Section 4.2. Covenants for Specified Types of Collateral. For so long as any Secured Obligation is outstanding:
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Section 5.1. Normal Provisions Concerning the Collateral.
Grantor will furnish any such information to the Secured Party promptly upon request. A carbon, photographic or other reproduction of this Agreement or any financing statement describing any Collateral is sufficient as a financing statement and may be filed in any jurisdiction by the Secured Party. Grantor ratifies and approves all financing statements heretofore filed by or on behalf of the Secured Party in any jurisdiction in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.
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Such power of attorney and proxy are coupled with an interest, are irrevocable, and are to be used by the Secured Party for the sole benefit of the Secured Party.
Section 5.2. Event of Default Remedies. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Secured Party may from time to time in its discretion, without limitation and without notice except as expressly provided below:
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Section 5.3. Application of Proceeds. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, any cash held by or on behalf of the Secured Party and all cash proceeds received by or on behalf of the Secured Party in respect of any sale of, collection from, or other realization upon any Collateral may, in the discretion of the Secured Party, be held by the Secured Party as collateral for, and/or then or at any time thereafter applied in whole or in part by the Secured Party against, any Secured Obligation, in the following manner:
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Section 5.4. Deficiency. If the proceeds of any sale, collection or realization of or upon the Collateral of the Grantors by the Secured Party are insufficient to pay all Secured Obligations and all other amounts to which the Secured Party is entitled, Grantor shall be liable for the deficiency, together with interest thereon as provided in the Loan Documents or (if no interest is so provided) at such other rate as shall be fixed by applicable law, together with the costs of collection and the reasonable fees of any attorneys employed by the Secured Party to collect such deficiency. Collateral may be sold at a loss to Grantor, and the Secured Party shall have no liability or responsibility to Grantor for such loss. Grantor acknowledges that a private sale may result in less proceeds than a public sale.
Section 5.5. Non-Judicial Remedies. In granting to the Secured Party the power to enforce its rights hereunder without prior judicial process or judicial hearing, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, Grantor waives, renounces and knowingly relinquishes any legal right that might otherwise require the Secured Party to enforce its rights by judicial process and confirms that such remedies are consistent with the usage of trade, are responsive to commercial necessity and are the result of a bargain at arms length. The Secured Party may, however, in its discretion, resort to judicial process.
Section 5.6. Limitation on Duty of the Secured Party in Respect of Collateral. Beyond the exercise of reasonable care in the custody thereof, the Secured Party shall have no duty as to any Collateral in its possession or control or in the possession or control of any agent or bailee or as to the preservation of rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining thereto. The Secured Party shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody of Collateral in its possession if such Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to which that it accords its own property, and the Secured Party shall not be liable or responsible for any loss or damage to any Collateral, or for any diminution in the value thereof, by reason of the act or omission of any warehouseman, carrier, forwarding agency, consignee or other agent or bailee selected by the Secured Party in good faith.
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Section 5.7. Appointment of Other Agents. At any time, in order to comply with any legal requirement in any jurisdiction, the Secured Party may appoint any bank or trust company or one or more other Persons, either to act as co-agent or co-agents, jointly with the Secured Party, or to act as separate agent or agents on behalf of the Secured Party, with such power and authority as may be necessary for the effective operation of the provisions hereof and may be specified in the instrument of appointment.
Section 6.1. Notices. Any notice or communication required or permitted hereunder shall be given in writing, sent in the manner provided in the Credit Agreement, if to the Secured Party or to a Grantor that is a party to the Credit Agreement, to the address set forth in the Credit Agreement or to such other address or to the attention of such other individual as hereafter shall be designated in writing by the applicable party sent in accordance herewith. Any such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been given as provided in the Credit Agreement for notices given thereunder.
Section 6.2. Amendments and Waivers. No amendment of this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by Grantor and the Secured Party, and no waiver of this Agreement or consent to any departure by Grantor herefrom shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by the Secured Party, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for that given and to the extent specified in such writing. In addition, all such amendments and waivers shall be effective only if given with the necessary approvals required in the Credit Agreement. No such amendment shall bind any Grantor not a party thereto, but no such amendment with respect to any Grantor shall require the consent of any other Grantor.
Section 6.3. Preservation of Rights. No failure on the part of the Secured Party to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The rights and remedies of the Secured Party provided herein and in the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law or otherwise.
Section 6.4. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity without invalidating the remaining portions hereof or thereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 6.5. Survival. Each representation and warranty, covenant and other obligation of Grantor herein shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the execution and delivery of any other Loan Document and the creation of the Secured Obligations.
Section 6.6. Binding Effect and Assignment. This Agreement shall:
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Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Secured Party may (except as otherwise provided in any Loan Document) pledge, assign or otherwise transfer any right under any Loan Document to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all benefits in respect thereof granted herein or otherwise. No right or duty of Grantor hereunder may be assigned or otherwise transferred without the prior written consent of the Secured Party.
Section 6.7. Termination. As and when provided in the Credit Agreement, this Agreement and the security interest created hereby shall terminate, all rights in the Collateral shall revert to Grantors and the Secured Party, at a Grantors request and at its expense, will:
Section 6.8. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas.
Section 6.9. Final Agreement. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the final agreement between the parties hereto and may not be contradicted by evidence of prior, contemporaneous, or subsequent oral agreements of the parties hereto. There are no unwritten oral agreements between the parties hereto.
Section 6.10. Counterparts; Facsimile. This Agreement may be separately executed in any number of counterparts, all of that when so executed shall be deemed to constitute one and the same Agreement. This Agreement may be validly delivered by facsimile or other electronic transmission of an executed counterpart of the signature page hereof.
Section 6.11. Acceptance by the Secured Party. By its acceptance of the benefits hereof, the Secured Party shall be deemed to have agreed to be bound hereby and to perform any obligation on their part set forth herein.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Grantor has executed and delivered this Agreement as of the date first-above written.
GRANTORS
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Name: Richard R. Wheeler |
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Name: Richard R. Wheeler |
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Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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SECURITY AGREEMENT
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YEAR |
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MAKE |
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STY |
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MODEL |
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WEIGHT |
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LICENSE# |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48266D503031 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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ST1 |
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25140 |
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W29468 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48286D503032 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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STI |
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25240 |
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W29469 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA482X6D503033 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25160 |
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W29470 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48216D503034 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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ACP |
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25200 |
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W29475 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48236D503035 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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ACP |
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25200 |
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W29476 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48257D503006 |
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2007 |
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ALL0 |
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TN |
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25180 |
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X32000 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48277D503007 |
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2007 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25180 |
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X32008 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48297D503008 |
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2007 |
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ALOY |
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TN |
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ACP |
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25200 |
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X32033 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48207D503009 |
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2007 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25190 |
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X32012 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48277D503010 |
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2007 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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TRL |
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25300 |
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X32O23 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48297D503011 |
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2007 |
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ALLO |
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UT |
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25200 |
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X32047 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48207D503012 |
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2007 |
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ALLO |
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UT |
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25220 |
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X32048 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48227D503013 |
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2007 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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ACP |
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25360 |
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X32049 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48247D503014 |
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2007 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25160 |
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X32057 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48267P503015 |
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2007 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25320 |
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X32060 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48217D503021 |
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2007 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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ACP |
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25600 |
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X32062 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48237D503022 |
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2007 |
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ALOY |
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TN |
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25460 |
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X32065 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48257D503023 |
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2007 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25160 |
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X32073 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48277D503024 |
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2007 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25200 |
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X32075 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48277D503025 |
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2007 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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ACP |
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25240 |
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X32081 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48295D503023 |
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2005 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25680 |
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W30007 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48205D503024 |
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2005 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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ST1 |
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25560 |
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W30012 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA4826YD503100 |
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2000 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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26000 |
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W30026 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA482XYD503097 |
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2000 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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26300 |
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W30027 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA4828YD503101 |
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2000 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25600 |
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W30028 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA4821YD503098 |
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2000 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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26000 |
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W30029 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48221D503102 |
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2001 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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26100 |
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W30025 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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3E9B0482551003052 |
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2006 |
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ENVS |
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TN |
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24400 |
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W37852 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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3E9B0482351003051 |
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2006 |
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ENVS |
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TN |
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24400 |
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W37851 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48226D503012 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25960 |
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W69321 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48246D503013 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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26000 |
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W69323 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48266D503014 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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26000 |
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W69324 |
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CLEAN ENERGY DALLAS TX |
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1A9PA48286D503015 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25600 |
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W69340 |
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CLEAN ENERGY DALLAS TX |
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1A9PA482X6D503016 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25600 |
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W69341 |
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CLEAN ENERGY-DALLAS TX |
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1A9PA48216D503017 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25600 |
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W69342 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48236D503018 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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ACP |
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14800 |
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W30121 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48256D503019 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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ACP |
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14880 |
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W30122 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48216F503020 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25420 |
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W30134 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48236D503021 |
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2006 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25220 |
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W30136 |
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CLEAN ENERGY FUELS |
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1A9PA48253D503016 |
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2003 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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26000 |
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76612Y |
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CLEAN ENERGY FUELS |
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1A9PA48273D503017 |
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2003 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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26000 |
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76632Y |
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CLEAN ENERGY FUELS |
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1A9PA48293D503018 |
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2003 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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26000 |
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76634Y |
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CLEAN ENERGY FUELS |
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1A9PA48203D503019 |
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2003 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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26000 |
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76637Y |
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CLEAN ENERGY DALLAS TX |
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1A9PA48255D503021 |
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2005 |
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ALLO |
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TN |
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25700 |
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W30115 |
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CLEAN ENERGY |
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1A9PA48275D503022 |
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2005 |
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ALLO |
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UT |
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25580 |
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Exhibit 99.14
SECURITY AGREEMENT
dated as of August 15, 2008
of
CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP.,
CLEAN ENERGY,
each other Grantor listed on the signature pages hereof
and each other Grantor that otherwise
may become a party hereto
in favor of
PLAINSCAPITAL BANK
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ARTICLE I Definitions and References |
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Schedules
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Address for Notices and Jurisdiction of Organization |
Schedule 2 |
Scheduled Collateral |
Exhibit
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Form of Grantor Accession Agreement |
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THIS SECURITY AGREEMENT is made as of August 15, 2008, by CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP., a Delaware corporation (CEF), and CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation (Clean Energy; each, a Grantor and collectively with each other Grantor listed on the signature pages hereof and that may become parties hereto pursuant to Section 6.3, the Grantors) in favor of PLAINSCAPITAL BANK, as Lender under the Credit Agreement (the Secured Party).
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CEF, Clean Energy and the Secured Party are parties to the Credit Agreement dated as of even date herewith (the Credit Agreement).
Pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Secured Party has agreed to extend credit to CEF and Clean Energy.
In order to induce the Secured Party to extend such credit, each Grantor has agreed to grant to the Secured Party a security interest in the Collateral.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and for other valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which the parties acknowledge, each Grantor agrees as follows:
Section 1.1. Definitions in Credit Agreement. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the respective meanings specified in the Credit Agreement.
Section 1.2. Definitions in the UCC, etc. The following terms have the meanings specified in the UCC:
Other terms used in this Agreement that are defined in the UCC and not otherwise defined herein or in the Credit Agreement have the meanings specified in the UCC, unless the context otherwise requires.
Section 1.3. Definitions in this Agreement. The following terms have the following meanings:
Collateral means, with respect to any Grantor, all property described in Section 2.1 in which such Grantor has any right, title or interest. References to Collateral herein with respect to a Grantor are intended to refer to Collateral in which such Grantor has any right, title or interest and not to Collateral in which any other Grantor has any right, title or interest.
Credit Agreement has the meaning specified in Recital A.
Grantor means each Person granting a security interest in any Collateral pursuant to this Agreement. References to Grantor in this Agreement are intended to refer to each such Person as if such Person were the only grantor pursuant to this Agreement, except:
(a) that references to any Grantor are meant to refer to each Person that is a Grantor,
(b) that references to the Grantors are meant to refer to collectively to all Persons that are Grantors, and
(c) as otherwise may be specifically set forth herein.
Pledged Debt means all Investment Property and General Intangibles constituting or pertaining to Indebtedness owing by any Person to Grantor.
Secured Obligations means all Obligations of all Restricted Persons now or hereafter arising under the Loan Documents.
Secured Party has the meaning specified in the preamble.
Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933.
UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in the State of Texas from time to time; provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of Texas, UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.
Section 1.4. Rules of Construction; References and Titles. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words include, includes and including shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase without limitation. The word will shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word shall. Unless the context requires otherwise:
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Section 2.1. Grant of Security Interest. As collateral security for the payment and performance of all Secured Obligations, Grantor pledges, collaterally assigns and grants to the Secured Party a continuing security interest in all right, title and interest of Grantor in and to all of the following property, whether now owned or existing or hereafter acquired or arising, regardless of where located and howsoever Grantors interests therein arise, whether by ownership, security interest, claim or otherwise:
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 2.1 does not grant a security interest in any property to the extent that such grant is prohibited under any agreement relating to such property and the violation of such prohibition would cause Grantor to lose its interest in or rights with respect to such property, except to the extent that Part 5 of Chapter 9 of the UCC would render such prohibition ineffective.
Section 2.2. Secured Obligations Secured.
Section 3.1. Representations and Warranties. Grantor represents and warrants to the Secured Party as follows:
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Section 4.1. General Covenants Applicable to Collateral. Grantor will at all times perform and observe the covenants contained in the Credit Agreement that are applicable to Grantor (whether made by Grantor or made by the Borrowers with respect to Grantor) for so long as any Secured Obligation is outstanding. In addition, Grantor will, so long as this Agreement shall be in effect, perform and observe the following:
In any notice delivered pursuant to this subsection, Grantor will expressly state that the notice is required by this Agreement and contains facts that may require additional filings of financing statements or other notices for the purposes of continuing perfection of the Secured Partys security interest in the Collateral.
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As part of the foregoing, Grantor will, whenever requested by the Secured Party:
Section 4.2. Covenants for Specified Types of Collateral. For so long as any Secured Obligation is outstanding:
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Section 5.1. Normal Provisions Concerning the Collateral.
Grantor will furnish any such information to the Secured Party promptly upon request. A carbon, photographic or other reproduction of this Agreement or any financing statement describing any Collateral is sufficient as a financing statement and may be filed in any jurisdiction by the Secured Party. Grantor ratifies and approves all financing statements heretofore filed by or on behalf of the Secured Party in any jurisdiction in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.
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Such power of attorney and proxy are coupled with an interest, are irrevocable, and are to be used by the Secured Party for the sole benefit of the Secured Party.
If any Collateral in which Grantor has granted a security interest hereunder is at any time in the possession or control of any warehouseman, bailee or any of Grantors agents, Grantor shall, upon the request of the Secured Party, notify such warehouseman, bailee or agent of the Secured Partys rights hereunder and instruct such Person to hold all such Collateral for the Secured Partys account subject to the Secured Partys instructions. No such request by the Secured Party shall be deemed a waiver of any provision hereof that was otherwise violated by such Collateral being held by such Person prior to such instructions by Grantor.
Section 5.2. Event of Default Remedies. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Secured Party may from time to time in its discretion, without limitation and without notice except as expressly provided below:
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Section 5.3. Application of Proceeds. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, any cash held by or on behalf of the Secured Party and all cash proceeds received by or on behalf of the Secured Party in respect of any sale of, collection from, or other realization upon any Collateral may, in the discretion of the Secured Party, be held by the Secured Party as collateral for, and/or then or at any time thereafter applied in whole or in part by the Secured Party against, any Secured Obligation, in the following manner:
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Section 5.4. Deficiency. If the proceeds of any sale, collection or realization of or upon the Collateral by the Secured Party are insufficient to pay all Secured Obligations and all other amounts to which the Secured Party is entitled, Grantor shall be liable for the deficiency, together with interest thereon as provided in the Loan Documents or (if no interest is so provided) at such other rate as shall be fixed by applicable law, together with the costs of collection and the reasonable fees of any attorneys employed by the Secured Party to collect such deficiency. Collateral may be sold at a loss to Grantor, and the Secured Party shall have no liability or responsibility to Grantor for such loss. Grantor acknowledges that a private sale may result in less proceeds than a public sale.
Section 5.5. Indemnity and Expenses. In addition to, but not in qualification or limitation of, any similar obligations under other Loan Documents:
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Section 5.6. Non-Judicial Remedies. In granting to the Secured Party the power to enforce its rights hereunder without prior judicial process or judicial hearing, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, Grantor waives, renounces and knowingly relinquishes any legal right that might otherwise require the Secured Party to enforce its rights by judicial process and confirms that such remedies are consistent with the usage of trade, are responsive to commercial necessity and are the result of a bargain at arms length. The Secured Party may, however, in its discretion, resort to judicial process.
Section 5.7. Limitation on Duty of the Secured Party in Respect of Collateral. Beyond the exercise of reasonable care in the custody thereof, the Secured Party shall have no duty as to any Collateral in its possession or control or in the possession or control of any agent or bailee or as to the preservation of rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining thereto. The Secured Party shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody of Collateral in its possession if such Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to which that it accords its own property, and the Secured Party shall not be liable or responsible for any loss or damage to any Collateral, or for any diminution in the value thereof, by reason of the act or omission of any warehouseman, carrier, forwarding agency, consignee or other agent or bailee selected by the Secured Party in good faith.
Section 5.8. Appointment of Other Agents. At any time, in order to comply with any legal requirement in any jurisdiction, the Secured Party may appoint any bank or trust company or one or more other Persons, either to act as co-agent or co-agents, jointly with the Secured Party, or to act as separate agent or agents on behalf of the Secured Party, with such power and authority as may be necessary for the effective operation of the provisions hereof and may be specified in the instrument of appointment.
Section 6.1. Notices. Any notice or communication required or permitted hereunder shall be given in writing, sent in the manner provided in the Credit Agreement, if to the Secured Party or to a Grantor that is a party to the Credit Agreement, to the address set forth in the Credit Agreement and, for any other Grantor, to the address specified opposite its name on Schedule 1, or to such other address or to the attention of such other individual as hereafter shall be designated in writing by the applicable party sent in accordance herewith. Any such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been given as provided in the Credit Agreement for notices given thereunder.
Section 6.2. Amendments and Waivers. Except as provided in Section 6.3, no amendment of this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by Grantor and the Secured Party, and no waiver of this Agreement or consent to any departure by Grantor
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herefrom shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by the Secured Party, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for that given and to the extent specified in such writing. In addition, all such amendments and waivers shall be effective only if given with the necessary approvals required in the Credit Agreement. No such amendment shall bind any Grantor not a party thereto, but no such amendment with respect to any Grantor shall require the consent of any other Grantor.
Section 6.3. Additional Grantors. Upon the execution and delivery, or authentication, by any Person of a security agreement supplement in substantially the form of Exhibit A:
Section 6.4. Preservation of Rights. No failure on the part of the Secured Party to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The rights and remedies of the Secured Party provided herein and in the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law or otherwise.
Section 6.5. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity without invalidating the remaining portions hereof or thereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 6.6. Survival. Each representation and warranty, covenant and other obligation of Grantor herein shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the execution and delivery of any other Loan Document and the creation of the Secured Obligations.
Section 6.7. Binding Effect and Assignment. This Agreement shall:
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Secured Party may (except as otherwise provided in any Loan Document) pledge, assign or otherwise transfer any right under any Loan Document to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all benefits in respect thereof granted herein or otherwise. No right or duty of Grantor hereunder may be assigned or otherwise transferred without the prior written consent of the Secured Party.
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Section 6.8. Termination. As and when provided in the Credit Agreement, this Agreement and the security interest created hereby shall terminate, all rights in the Collateral shall revert to Grantors and the Secured Party, at a Grantors request and at its expense, will:
Section 6.9. Security Interest Absolute; Recourse; Waivers.
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Section 6.10. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas.
Section 6.11. Final Agreement. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the final agreement between the parties hereto and may not be contradicted by evidence of prior, contemporaneous, or subsequent oral agreements of the parties hereto. There are no unwritten oral agreements between the parties hereto.
Section 6.12. Counterparts; Facsimile. This Agreement may be separately executed in any number of counterparts, all of that when so executed shall be deemed to constitute one and the same Agreement. This Agreement may be validly delivered by facsimile or other electronic transmission of an executed counterpart of the signature page hereof.
Section 6.13. Acceptance by the Secured Party. By its acceptance of the benefits hereof, the Secured Party shall be deemed to have agreed to be bound hereby and to perform any obligation on their part set forth herein.
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Section 6.14. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. GRANTOR IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE ACTIONS OF THE SECURED PARTY IN THE NEGOTIATION, ADMINISTRATION, PERFORMANCE OR ENFORCEMENT THEREOF.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Grantor has executed and delivered this Agreement as of the date first-above written.
GRANTORS
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SECURITY AGREEMENT
Address for Notices and Jurisdiction of Organization
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EXHIBIT
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SECURITY AGREEMENT
FORM OF GRANTOR ACCESSION AGREEMENT
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PlainsCapital
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned refers to:
(i) the Credit Agreement dated as of August 15, 2008 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or restated, the Credit Agreement) among Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a Delaware corporation, and Clean Energy, a California corporation, as the Borrowers, and you, as Lender, and
(ii) the Security Agreement dated as of August 15, 2008 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or restated, the Security Agreement) made by the Grantors from time to time party thereto in your favor.
Terms defined in the Credit Agreement or the Security Agreement and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as defined in the Credit Agreement or the Security Agreement.
SECTION 1. Grant of Security. The undersigned grants to you a security interest in all of its right, title and interest in and to all of the Collateral of the undersigned, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by the undersigned, wherever located and whether now or hereafter existing or arising, including the property of the undersigned set forth on the attached supplemental schedules to the Schedules to the Security Agreement.
SECTION 2. Security for Obligations. The grant of a security interest in the Collateral by the undersigned under this Agreement and the Security Agreement secures the payment of the Secured Obligations. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this Security Agreement Supplement and the Security Agreement secures the payment of all amounts that constitute part of the Secured Obligations and that would be owed by any Restricted Person to the Secured Party under the Loan Documents but for the fact that such Secured Obligations are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving a Restricted Person.
SECTION 3. Information Relating to the Undersigned. The undersigned is an entity of the type specified on Schedule 1 and is organized under the laws of the jurisdiction specified on Schedule 1 and its address for notices is specified on Schedule 1. Its organizational identification number, if any, is set forth in Schedule 1.
SECTION 4. Supplement to Security Agreement Schedule 2. The undersigned has attached hereto a supplemental Schedule 2 to Schedule 2 to the Security Agreement, and the undersigned certifies, as of the date first-above written, that such supplemental schedule has been prepared by the undersigned in substantially the form of Schedule to the Security Agreement and is true and complete.
SECTION 5. Representations, Warranties, Agreements, Waivers. The undersigned as of the date hereof makes each representation, warranty , agreement (including indemnification agreements), waiver, and acknowledgement set forth in the Security Agreement (as supplemented by the attached supplemental schedules).
SECTION 6. Obligations Under the Security Agreement. As of the date first-above written, the undersigned hereby joins the Security Agreement as a party thereto and as a Grantor thereunder and hereby agrees to be bound as a Grantor by all of the terms and provisions of the Security Agreement. As of the date first-above written, each reference in the Security Agreement to a Grantor shall also mean and be a reference to the undersigned.
SECTION 7. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the jurisdiction whose laws the Security Agreement provides will govern such agreement.
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Exhibit 99.15
PLEDGE AGREEMENT
of
CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation
in favor of
PLAINSCAPITAL BANK
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ARTICLE I Definitions and References |
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ARTICLE II Security Interest |
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Grant of Security Interest |
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ARTICLE III Representations and Warranties |
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Representations and Warranties |
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ARTICLE V Voting and Distribution Rights in Respect Of Pledged Equity |
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THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT is made as of August 15, 2008, by CLEAN ENERGY, a California corporation, doing business in Texas as California Clean Energy Corp. (Grantor), in favor of PLAINSCAPITAL BANK, a Texas state bank (the Secured Party).
RECITALS
A. Grantor and Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a Delaware corporation, collectively as the borrowers, and the Secured Party, as the lender, are parties to the Credit Agreement of even date herewith (the Credit Agreement).
B. Pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Secured Party has agreed to extend credit to Grantor and Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
C. In order to induce the Secured Party to extend such credit, Grantor has agreed to grant to the Secured Party a security interest in the Collateral.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and for other valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which the parties acknowledge, Grantor agrees as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions and References
Section 1.1. Definitions in Credit Agreement. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the respective meanings specified in the Credit Agreement.
Section 1.2. Definitions in the UCC, etc. The following terms have the meanings specified in the UCC:
Other terms used in this Agreement that are defined in the UCC and not otherwise defined herein or in the Credit Agreement have the meanings specified in the UCC, unless the context otherwise requires.
Section 1.3. Definitions in this Agreement. The following terms have the following meanings:
Collateral means all property described in Section 2.1 in which Grantor has any right, title or interest.
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Company means Dallas Clean Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
Credit Agreement has the meaning specified in Recital A.
Grantor has the meaning specified in the preamble.
Limited Liability Company Agreement means the Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Company.
Pledged Equity has the meaning specified in Section 2.1(a).
Secured Obligations means all Obligations of all Restricted Persons now or hereafter arising under the Loan Documents.
Secured Party has the meaning specified in the preamble.
Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933.
UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in the State of Texas from time to time; provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of Texas, UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.
Section 1.4. Rules of Construction; References and Titles. Section 1.3 of the Credit Agreement is incorporated into this Agreement as if fully set forth herein.
ARTICLE II
Security Interest
Section 2.1. Grant of Security Interest. As collateral security for the payment and performance of all Secured Obligations, Grantor pledges, collaterally assigns and grants to the Secured Party a continuing security interest in all right, title and interest of Grantor in and to all of the following property, whether now owned or existing or hereafter acquired or arising, regardless of where located and howsoever Grantors interests therein arise, whether by ownership, security interest, claim or otherwise:
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Section 2.2. Secured Obligations Secured. The security interest created hereby in the Collateral secures the payment and performance of all Secured Obligations.
ARTICLE III
Representations and Warranties
Section 3.1. Representations and Warranties. Grantor represents and warrants to the Secured Party as follows:
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Covenants
Section 4.1. General Covenants. Grantor will, so long as this Agreement shall be in effect, perform and observe the following:
In any notice delivered pursuant to this subsection, Grantor will expressly state that the notice is required by this Agreement and contains facts that may require additional filings of financing statements or other notices for the purposes of continuing perfection of the Secured Partys security interest in the Collateral.
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As part of the foregoing, Grantor will, whenever requested by the Secured Party:
Section 4.2. Covenants Relating Specifically to the Nature of the Collateral. Grantor will, for so long as any Secured Obligation is outstanding, perform and observe the following:
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Subsections (A) and (B) above shall not apply to any financial asset credited to a Securities Account for which the Secured Party is the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary.
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Section 5.1. Voting Rights. Grantor shall be entitled to exercise all voting and other consensual rights pertaining to the Pledged Equity or any part thereof for any purpose; provided that Grantor shall not exercise or refrain from exercising any such right if such action would have a material adverse effect on the value of any Pledged Equity or on the Secured Partys security interest or the value thereof; and provided further that, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon notice from the Secured Party to Grantor, all rights to exercise or refrain from exercising the voting and other consensual rights that Grantor would otherwise be entitled to exercise shall cease and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Secured Party, which thereupon shall have the sole right to exercise or refrain from exercising such voting and other consensual rights.
Section 5.2. Distribution Rights While No Event of Default Exists. Provided no Event of Default exists, Grantor shall be entitled to receive and retain all distributions paid in respect of the Pledged Equity if and to the extent that the payment thereof is not otherwise prohibited by the Loan Documents; provided that:
Section 5.3. Actions by Secured Party. The Secured Party will execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered) to Grantor all such proxies and other instruments as Grantor may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling Grantor to exercise the voting and other rights that it is entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 5.1 above and to receive the interest payments that it is authorized to receive and retain pursuant to Section 5.2 above.
Section 5.4. Rights While an Event of Default Exists. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default:
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Section 6.1. Normal Provisions Concerning the Collateral.
Grantor will furnish any such information to the Secured Party promptly upon request. A carbon, photographic or other reproduction of this Agreement or any financing statement describing any Collateral is sufficient as a financing statement and may be filed in any jurisdiction by the Secured Party. Grantor ratifies and approves all financing statements heretofore filed by or on behalf of the Secured Party in any jurisdiction in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.
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Such power of attorney and proxy are coupled with an interest, are irrevocable, and are to be used by the Secured Party for its sole benefit.
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Section 6.2. Event of Default Remedies. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Secured Party may from time to time in its discretion, without limitation and without notice except as expressly provided below:
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Section 6.3. Application of Proceeds. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, any cash held by or on behalf of the Secured Party and all cash proceeds received by or on behalf of the Secured Party in respect of any sale of, collection from, or other realization upon any Collateral may, in the discretion of the Secured Party, be held by the Secured Party as collateral for, and/or then or at any time thereafter applied in whole or in part by the Secured Party against, any Secured Obligation, in the following manner:
Section 6.4. Deficiency. Collateral may be sold at a loss to Grantor, and the Secured Party shall have no liability or responsibility to Grantor for such loss. Grantor acknowledges that a private sale may result in less proceeds than a public sale.
Section 6.5. Private Sales of Pledged Equity. The Secured Party may deem it impracticable to effect a public sale of any Pledged Equity and may determine to make one or more private sales of such Pledged Equity to a restricted group of purchasers that will be obligated to agree, among other things, to acquire the same for their own account, for investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Any such private sale may be at a price and on other terms less favorable to the seller than the price and other terms that might have been
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obtained at a public sale. Any such private sale nevertheless shall be deemed to have been made in a commercially reasonable manner, and the Secured Party shall have no obligation to delay sale of any such Pledged Equity for the period of time necessary to permit their registration for public sale under the Securities Act. Any offer to sell any such Collateral that has been:
shall be deemed to involve a public disposition under Section 9-610(c) of the UCC, notwithstanding that such sale may not constitute a public offering under the Securities Act, and the Secured Party may bid for such Collateral.
Section 6.6. Indemnity and Expenses. In addition to, but not in qualification or limitation of, any similar obligations under other Loan Documents:
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Section 6.7. Non-Judicial Remedies. In granting to the Secured Party the power to enforce its rights hereunder without prior judicial process or judicial hearing, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, Grantor waives, renounces and knowingly relinquishes any legal right that might otherwise require the Secured Party to enforce its rights by judicial process and confirms that such remedies are consistent with the usage of trade, are responsive to commercial necessity and are the result of a bargain at arms length. The Secured Party may, however, in its discretion, resort to judicial process.
Section 6.8. Limitation on Duty of the Secured Party in Respect of Collateral. Beyond the exercise of reasonable care in the custody thereof, the Secured Party shall have no duty as to any Collateral in its possession or control or in the possession or control of any agent or bailee or as to the preservation of rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining thereto. The Secured Party shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody of Collateral in its possession if such Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to which that it accords its own property, and the Secured Party shall not be liable or responsible for any loss or damage to any Collateral, or for any diminution in the value thereof, by reason of the act or omission of any warehouseman, carrier, forwarding agency, consignee or other agent or bailee selected by the Secured Party in good faith.
Section 6.9. Appointment of Other Agents. At any time, in order to comply with any legal requirement in any jurisdiction, the Secured Party may appoint any bank or trust company or one or more other Persons, either to act as co-agent or co-agents, jointly with the Secured Party, or to act as separate agent or agents on behalf of the Secured Party, with such power and authority as may be necessary for the effective operation of the provisions hereof and may be specified in the instrument of appointment.
Section 7.1. Notices. Any notice or communication required or permitted hereunder shall be given in writing, sent in the manner provided in the Credit Agreement, or to such other address or to the attention of such other individual as hereafter shall be designated in writing by the applicable party sent in accordance herewith. Any such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been given as provided in the Credit Agreement for notices given thereunder.
Section 7.2. Amendments and Waivers. Except as provided in Section 4.2(b) or 7.3, no amendment of this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by Grantor and the Secured Party, and no waiver of this Agreement or consent to any departure by Grantor herefrom shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by the Secured Party, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for that given and to the extent specified in such writing. In addition, all such amendments and waivers shall be effective only if given with the necessary approvals required in the Credit Agreement.
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Section 7.3. Preservation of Rights. No failure on the part of the Secured Party to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The rights and remedies of the Secured Party provided herein and in the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law or otherwise.
Section 7.4. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity without invalidating the remaining portions hereof or thereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 7.5. Survival. Each representation and warranty, covenant and other obligation of Grantor herein shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the execution and delivery of any other Loan Document and the creation of the Secured Obligations.
Section 7.6. Binding Effect and Assignment. This Agreement shall:
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Secured Party may (except as otherwise provided in any Loan Document) pledge, assign or otherwise transfer any right under any Loan Document to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all benefits in respect thereof granted herein or otherwise. No right or duty of Grantor hereunder may be assigned or otherwise transferred without the prior written consent of the Secured Party.
Section 7.7. Release of Collateral; Termination.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, Section 6.6 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
Section 7.8. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas.
Section 7.9. Final Agreement. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the final agreement between the parties hereto and may not be contradicted by evidence of prior, contemporaneous, or subsequent oral agreements of the parties hereto. There are no unwritten oral agreements between the parties hereto.
Section 7.10. Facsimile. This Agreement may be validly delivered by facsimile or other electronic transmission of an executed counterpart of the signature page hereof.
Section 7.11. Acceptance by the Secured Party. By its acceptance of the benefits hereof, the Secured Party shall be deemed to have agreed to be bound hereby and to perform any obligation on its part set forth herein.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Grantor has executed and delivered this Agreement as of the date first-above written.
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SIGNATURE PAGE OF GRANTOR TO
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CLEAN ENERGY, a California limited
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PLEDGE AGREEMENT
EQUITY AND RELATED MATTERS
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Description of Pledged Equity: |
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70% member interest in Dallas Clean Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company |
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Description of agreements relating to Pledged Equity |
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Limited Liability Company Agreement dated August 15, 2008 (describe any applicable amendments/merger documents for accuracy) |
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Clean Energy Fuels Corp.: AZ, CO,
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NOTICE OF PLEDGE
TO: DALLAS CLEAN ENERGY LLC (the Company)
Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to a Pledge Agreement of even date with this Notice (the Agreement), from the undersigned (the Grantor), to PLAINSCAPITAL BANK (Secured Party), Grantor has pledged and assigned to Secured Party and granted to Secured Party a continuing first priority security interest in, all of its right, title and interest, whether now existing or hereafter arising our acquired, in, to, and under the Collateral. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the respective meanings specified in the Agreement.
Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company is hereby authorized and directed, and Company hereby agrees, to:
(i) register on its books Grantors pledge to Secured Party of the Collateral; and
(ii) upon the occurrence of an Event of Default (as defined in the Credit Agreement) (or prior thereto, as may be required under the Agreement) make direct payment to Secured Party of any amounts due or to become due to Grantor that are attributable, directly or indirectly, to Grantors ownership of the Collateral.
(a) Grantor hereby directs Company to, and Company hereby agrees to, comply with instructions originated by the Secured Party with respect to the Collateral without further consent of the Grantor. It is the intention of the foregoing to grant control to Secured Party within the meaning of Articles 8 and 9 of the UCC, to the extent the same may be applicable to the Collateral.
(b) Grantor hereby directs Company, and Company hereby agrees, (i) not to take any action to cause any membership interest of the Collateral to be or become a security within the meaning of, or to be governed by, Article 8 (Investment Securities) of the UCC as in effect under the laws of any state having jurisdiction, and (ii) not to opt in or to take any other action seeking to establish any membership interest of the Collateral as a security and (iii) not to certificate any membership interest of the Collateral.
Grantor hereby requests the Company to indicate its acceptance of this Notice and consent to and confirmation of its terms and provisions by signing a copy of this Notice where indicated below and returning it to Secured Party.
Dated as of August 15, 2008.
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Exhibit 99.16
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Source: Clean Energy Fuels Corp. |
Clean
Energy Fuels Acquires Texas Landfill Gas Plant to Produce Renewable Gas
Monday August 18, 8:30 am ET
SEAL BEACH, Calif.(BUSINESS WIRE)Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE - News) has acquired Dallas Clean Energy LLC (DCE) for approximately $19.1 million in cash from Camco International Ltd, a Jersey-based company focused on developing projects and strategies to reduce carbon emissions. Clean Energy has partnered in acquiring and operating the project with Cambrian Energy, a leading landfill gas project development and management company, which owns 30% of DCE.
Dallas Clean Energy owns the McCommas Bluff landfill gas processing plant the third largest landfill gas operation in the United States. The landfill, owned by the City of Dallas, opened in 1975 and is scheduled to close in 2042. It is estimated that pipeline quality methane gas will continue to be produced for approximately 30 years after the landfill closes.
Clean Energy entered into a $30 million credit facility with PlainsCapital Bank in Dallas, Texas in order to finance the acquisition and anticipated future capital improvements at the landfill.
Atmos Energy Pipeline Company distributes the gas collected from the landfill facility.
This is a major strategic action for Clean Energy, enabling our company to participate in using renewable biogas introduced into the pipeline system for our account along with traditional natural gas, said Andrew Littlefair, Clean Energys President and CEO. Use of biogas as a vehicle fuel has enormous potential to both reduce carbon emissions and reduce our dependence on foreign oil by displacing the use of petroleum fuel. Through developing biogas resources, we hope to create programs that will enable our customers to reduce their carbon emissions, lower their costs and increase the Green value of their operations by fueling natural gas vehicles with renewable biogas.
Refuse companies, in particular, are seeking our help in making the connection between the methane gas from their landfills and its use for transportation fuel for their truck fleets, he added.
Clean Energy is the leading provider of natural gas (CNG and LNG) for transportation in North America. It has a broad customer base in the refuse, transit, ports, shuttle, taxi, trucking, airport and municipal fleet markets, fueling more than 14,000 vehicles daily at strategic locations across the United States and Canada. Clean Energy del Peru, Clean Energys Peruvian joint venture, operates the worlds largest natural gas vehicle fueling station in Lima, Peru. Information at: www.cleanenergyfuels.com
Cambrian Energy is a leading landfill gas and biogas development and management company. During its 28 years in business, Cambrian Energy has successfully developed more than 50 projects that convert landfill gas or digester gas to commercially useful renewable energy, including 3 other Renewable Natural Gas projects. Information at: www.cambrianenergy.com
The Camco Group is a leading climate change business in the growing carbon and sustainable energy markets. It offers a full range of carbon-related services to public and private organizations worldwide. The Group has a 20-year track record and manages one of the worlds largest carbon credit portfolios. Information at: www.camcoglobal.com
Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, including anticipated gas production from the landfill and the timeline for increasing the production levels, the gas reserves in the landfill, and the potential for fueling customers vehicles with landfill gas. The forward-looking statements made herein speak only as of the date of this press release and the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
Contact:
Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
News Media
Christine Thomas, 310-559-4955 x103
cthomas@cleanenergyfuels.com
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Investors
Ina McGuinness, 310-954-1100
Source: Clean Energy Fuels Corp.