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 Ontario 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
December 31, 2011
A low carbon tax in Ontario would make worst-case nuclear overrun look cheap
Steve Aplin
December 10, 2011
Twenty-three (million) tons, and whaddaya get? Another day older, and still no credit
Steve Aplin
December 7, 2011
The 26 million ton coverup: Ontario’s stunning carbon reduction and why it’s a state secret
Steve Aplin