Alaska Dispatch by Patti Epler.  … That immediately set folks to asking: What’s Plan B? The state has been trying for more than 30 years to market the abundant natural gas on the North Slope. If this gas line plan falls through, what next?   …    Now, proponents of other gas projects are smelling blood in the political waters and they’re circling Juneau armed with power points and proposals. Legislators’ angst over the TransCanada project, the closing of the Nikiski gas export plant and the notion of importing gas to a state that is supposedly full of it has certainly churned up the talk about other possibilities for getting Alaska gas off the Slope and put to use in Alaska.

Reuters.  A natural gas pipeline ruptured in northern Ontario, igniting a fireball that sent flames hundreds of feet into the air, police said on Sunday.  A section of the TransCanada Corp mainline exploded near Beardmore, Ontario late on Saturday, forcing "a few hundred" people to evacuate their homes, the Ontario Provincial Police said.