For political reasons, the U.S. president has put the kibosh on TransCanada’s plan to extend the Keystone pipeline from Cushing Oklahoma to Houston. That project would have immediately created 6,500 high-paid, high-skilled construction jobs, along with thousands more spinofff jobs. The employment situation in the U.S. has been persistently bad through Obama’s presidency, and you wonder what tipping point the country is approaching. On one hand there is this serious, …Read the rest of the article
Posts in the Electricity Category at Canadian Energy Issues
January 19, 2012
Nuclear progress in Canada: like the western pipelines, it’s all about real property rights
Steve Aplin
January 1, 2012
Oceans of Acid: the seven seas are the dumping ground for million-year “clean” fossil fuel waste
Steve Aplin
December 31, 2011
A low carbon tax in Ontario would make worst-case nuclear overrun look cheap
Steve Aplin
December 29, 2011
Extreme heat, electrical load, and political instability: the connection and the solution
Steve Aplin