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TransCanada Corp.’s big, controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline project, which has inspired endless political and environmental debate, was rejected Friday by the Obama administration. The U.S. State Department decided the seven-year, multi-billion-dollar proposal was not in the U.S. national interest.

Alaska House and Senate lawmakers have approved a bill (SB 3001) to facilitate the buyout of TransCanada Corp.’s stake in the Alaska LNG project to pipe, liquefy and export North Slope gas to global markets.

TransCanada Corp. has completed acquiring all government permits to lay the jumbo northern pipeline required by the Asian entry in the lineup of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal projects on the Pacific Coast of British Columbia.

TransCanada Corp. on Monday secured Ontario and Quebec cooperation with its Energy East plan for partial conversion of its Mainline to oil service by dropping attempts to load project costs onto natural gas distribution companies.

Delays spell “considerable” cost hikes for the Energy East scheme, said natural gas distribution companies that are fighting bills generated by the proposed partial conversion of TransCanada Corp.’s national Mainline to oil service.

TransCanada Corp. is digging in for a fight with its natural gas customers, calling their protest against costs that they blame on its Energy East plan to switch part of its Mainline into oil service a “patent and extreme” attack on its ability to manage the system.

A settlement on replacement capacity for natural gas distribution companies in central Canada and the northeastern United States may remove the economic obstacle delaying TransCanada Corp.'s mammoth Energy East project.

A settlement on replacement capacity for natural gas distribution companies in central Canada and the northeastern United States may remove the economic obstacle delaying TransCanada Corp.’s mammoth Energy East project.

Beluga whales, a northern species cherished by Canadians have won a reprieve from risks of being run over by tankers or fouled by oil leaks as a result of an eastern Quebec pipeline design decision.