Corruption

TransCanada Seeks to Build C$983 Million Gas Pipeline (Update4)

By Jim Polson

Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- TransCanada Corp. will seek approval for a C$983 million ($996 million) natural-gas pipeline project to increase access to production in northwestern Alberta needed by Canadian oil-sands producers.

A permit for the North Central Corridor project will be filed today with the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board for the 300-kilometer (186-mile) pipeline and associated facilities, TransCanada said in a statement. The company's pipeline system already is the largest in Canada.

TransCanada seeks permit for $983M gas pipeline
November 21, 2007
THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY – A TransCanada Corp. (TSX: TRP) subsidiary is seeking permission to build a 300-kilometre natural gas pipeline in Alberta at an estimated cost of $983 million.

The North Central Corridor pipeline is designed to carry gas to ``growing intra-Alberta markets resulting largely from increased oilsands development," the company stated Wednesday.

TransCanada said Nova Gas Transmission's application to the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board comes after 11 years of consideration of the line.

An open letter to James Richardson & Sons and the Richardson Foundation regarding investment in the Alberta Oil Sands and the damage being done to environment and health in the region and globally,

To the Richardson Family business and Foundation:

Group opposed to pipeline runs out of money

The Associated Press - Saturday, November 17, 2007
BISMARCK, N.D.

A group that opposes a proposed eastern North Dakota oil pipeline has run out of money for legal fees and their attorneys have abandoned the case.

Some residents along the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline and the Dakota Resource Council, a Dickinson-based environmental and landowner group, had been are preparing for hearings Nov. 27-28 at the Public Service Commission.

TransCanada's lawyers opposed letting the Dakota Resource Council lawyers withdraw.

PetrCizek:
Comment: Just as more scientific evidence continues to emerge that increased forest fires, all caused by climate change, are now causing the boreal forest to emit more carbon than it absorbs, the Big Greens (coincidentally funded by the Big Oil Pew foundation) continue to promote the idea of carbon trading from boreal forest "offsets". Yet, even the Canadian Forest Service has concluded that Canadian forests should not be included as a "sink" under Kyoto due to the extremely high risk of forest fires and insect outbreaks in the future:

INAC “no” to UR-Energy uranium drilling in the Thelon
By LEA STORRY, SRJ Editor 31.OCT.07

The beauty of the NWT’s Upper Thelon is safe...for now. Chuck Strahl, the minister of Indian and northern affairs Canada (INAC), formally accepted the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board (Review Board) recommendation that exploration work proposed by UR-Energy be rejected without an environmental impact review.

October 11, 2007 - 9:30 PM
UN rapporteur calls for biofuel moratorium

More and more corn is being used for biofuel at the expense of food, according to Jean Ziegler.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food is demanding an international five-year ban on producing biofuels to combat soaring food prices.

Switzerland's Jean Ziegler said the conversion of arable land for plants used for green fuel had led to an explosion of agricultural prices which was punishing poor countries forced to import their food at a greater cost.

Starving the Poor
Noam Chomsky
Khaleej Times, May 15, 2007

The New York Times has decided to threaten this website for content involving this article by Noam Chomsky. Rather than allow their threats to dissuade you the reader from being able to read the article above by Mr Chomsky, we have found a place where it is linked and we do not carry it. We apologize for letting a large corporate newspaper bully us but we cannot afford to fight them, and it is you the person seeking information who pay that cost.

here is a link to the same article, hosted elsewhere:

CARBON PRICING FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY: Applying Market Forces to Climate Protection in Canada

This fall, the Pembina Institute will host a national, collaborative design discussion on future carbon pricing frameworks for Canada. The conference will take place on October 29 and 30, 2007, in Calgary, Alberta.
Collaborative Design Thinking

Carbon Pricing for a Sustainable Economy will assemble leading voices for an engaging working session including:

executives and in-house experts from industry
think tanks
NGOs
domestic and international specialists

This is sadly one of those articles that cannot be published uncommented. The mad rush towards the north for Uranium, oil & gas, coal, Coalbed Methane, diamonds and more-- has already been basically handed to the federal government by those who have advanced much of the protected areas strategy.