CBC.  ... You wouldn't think cheap oil would be a catalyst for moving forward with a $12-billion plan to build a pipeline across the country to pump the stuff, but that's exactly what TransCanada did this week. The company officially applied to the National Energy Board to approve its Energy East pipeline this week, a 4,600-kilometre pipeline project that's going to pump Canadian oil from Alberta across six Canadian provinces to refineries on the East Coast to meet local demand and, more importantly, get exported to Europe, Africa and even parts of Asia. Regardless [...]

(See our editorial on this subject....  -dh) Calgary Herald by Stephen Ewart.  As resistance to TransCanada's proposed Energy East oil pipeline ramps up, at least some of the opposition from Quebec looks decidedly self-serving.  In a province with a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing to produce natural gas and growing imports from the northeast U.S., the leading gas distributor wants the Calgary company to maintain its underutilized cross-country pipeline to ensure industry in Quebec retains access to bargainbasement-priced gas from Western Canada.  etting aside the fact cross-border gas from the nearby [...]

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