(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 Utica and Marcellus basins and gas from the western provinces is produced with fracking, it shouldn't be TransCanada's obligation to undercut its own economic fortunes to prop up industries elsewhere.  More here….