TransCanada thrives amid intense challenges.  Read more below.  -dh

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski Responds TODAY TO  Statoil's decision to end its Alaska Arctic offshore exploration program.

 

Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Senator, Energy & Natural Resources, ANILCA, overreach, Photo by Dave HarbourSchedule now for this hearing of Senator Lisa Murkowski's (NGP Photo) Energy and Natural Resources Committee:   Thursday, Dec. 3, 10 a.m.,  Full committee hearing on implementation of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, including perspectives on the Act’s impacts in Alaska and suggestions for improvements to the Act. 

Seeking Alpha.  TransCanada says it is sticking with a plan to increase investor payouts by 8%-10% annually through 2020 even after the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Calgary Herald, by Adam Williams & Rebecca Penty.  Days after the U.S. spurned TransCanada Corp.’s proposal to expand its Keystone pipeline network across North America, Mexico opened its arms.   TransCanada won the rights last week for its sixth pipeline in Mexico….

CBC by Paul Haavardsrud.  The fast-paced world of pipeline politics, as it turns out, doesn't take time to dwell on sentiment.

Before U.S. President Barack Obama was even finished putting the spike in one controversial Canadian pipeline project, attention was already turning to the chances that another would get built. 

Due in no small part to Keystone XL's demise, the prospects for Energy East (CP Photo), a 4,600-kilometre length of pipe running between Alberta and New Brunswick, have never looked better.  More….

Calgary Herald by Dan Healing.

More relief for Western Canada gas producers enduring pipeline bottlenecks is on the way with Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. announcing Monday a $570-million proposal to add capacity to cover 2.7 billion cubic feet per day of firm contracts on its Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. system by 2018.

Dozens of Calgary-based oil and gas companies that operate in western Alberta and northeastern British Columbia have reported interrupted production over the summer as natural gas gushing from horizontal, multi-fractured wells overwhelm systems operated by TransCanada and Spectra Energy. The Alliance Pipeline was also shut down for several days after sour gas accidentally entered the system.

Calgary Herald by Darcy Henton.  

A new carbon tax that’s expected to be proposed by the Alberta NDP to combat global warning is a “tax on everything” that will hurt laid-off Albertans, says Wildrose Leader Brian Jean.

The leader of the official Opposition demanded to know why Premier Rachel Notley suggested in a speech in Toronto last week that she plans to introduce a carbon tax while Alberta is in the throes of recession triggered by the massive collapse of oil prices.  More….

Natural Gas Intel by Joe Fisher.  

ConocoPhillips Alaska Natural Gas Corp. (CPANGC) has filed with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to extend exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its terminal at Kenai, AK.

CPANGC is seeking free trade agreement (FTA) and non-FTA export authorization for up to the equivalent of 40 Bcf of LNG for a period of two years beginning Feb. 19, 2016. Its current FTA and non-FTA export authorizations are due to expire soon. The Kenai LNG facility has exported LNG for almost 50 years under multiple export authorizations over that period.  More….

Peninsula Clarion by Elizabeth Earl.  

Managers are concerned that pressure on the Kenai River could increase if the Alaska LNG project goes through.

The project is still tentative and will not receive a final ruling until 2018 at the earliest, but if it does go through, the borough could see an influx of as many as 5,000 workers for the five years it takes to construct the 900-acre plant in Nikiski. Unless the camp is closed, many of them will likely recreate on the Kenai River.

Meanwhile, we see an American President reasserting an opinion this week in Turkey that Global Warming is a "critical issue", while calling the Paris murders, a "setback" in his strategy to fight terrorism.  -dh

Climate Change Comment by Thorpe Watson, NGP Reader.

CLIMATE CONFERENCE (SUMMIT), PARIS 2015, AND GLOBAL COOLING

Do you believe that mankind's emissions of carbon dioxide ("CO2", aka “carbon”) will cause runaway warming?

Do you believe that we can stabilize the planet's ever-changing climate by restricting our generation of CO2 or by paying carbon taxes or by adopting a meat-free diet?

Do you believe that CO2 is “carbon” pollution?

The thousands of delegates, who will attend the Paris climate summit November 30, embrace such beliefs while ignoring facts that clearly demonstrate the delusional, if not pathological, nature of such beliefs. The pertinent facts are:

 

  • CO2 is not carbon or black soot.

  • CO2 is a colourless, trace gas in our CO2-impoverished atmosphere.

  • CO2 is as important as water and oxygen in sustaining life on the planet.

  • Henry's Law limits mankind's contribution to the total CO2 content of the atmosphere because the oceans are a huge CO2 sink.

  • Consequently, the consumption of all known coal, oil, and gas deposits will not materially replenish our CO2-impoverished atmosphere (less than 15%).

  • Global warming ceased more than 18 years ago in spite of increasing CO2 levels.

  • Most of the CO2 increases are caused by the natural out-gassing of the oceans.

  • The USA's emissions reduction pledge will seriously harm the USA economy and, according to the UN's flawed climate models, the reduction will reduce the world temperature by a pathetic, non-detectable 0.01oC by 2100 under the UN's most extreme and mistaken assumptions.

A more credible alarmist message is provided by scientists who claim that we will be subject to another mini ice age by 2030 (See article below). Solar scientists have been forecasting, for some time, a return of the low temperatures of the Maunder Minimum (1645 to 1715).

Rather than developing strategies to enable Canadians to adapt to inevitable lower temperatures, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join the Paris delegates in their quixotic attempt to stabilize the planet's climate. Like Trudeau's chief advisor, Gerald Butts, the Paris delegates are eager to implement a worldwide, carbon-free economy; that is, an economy that does not use hydrocarbon fuels (i.e. coal, oil, and gas).

Gerald Butts was a senior adviser to Premier Dalton McGuinty when Ontario started down the carbon-free road to bankruptcy under its so-called 'Green Energy Act'. It is actually an anti-green act because it wrongly vilifies CO2. CO2 is a vital component of the carbon cycle, which is essential in the greening of our planet. At this time, Canada's industrial heartland (i.e. Ontario) is being dismantled under the Act.

How much of our sovereignty will Trudeau surrender to UN bureaucrats in the delusional belief that we can stabilize an ever-changing climate? I am sure the UN will be very willing to accept the payment of “indulgences” should we fail to meet our emission-reduction targets.

Furthermore, I am deeply concerned that the "International Tribunal of Climate Justice", to be resurrected at the Paris summit, could be given sufficiently broad powers to deny our freedom of expression. Specifically, the Tribunal would then have the power to deny our right to challenge the UN's false global-warming/climate-change narrative.

If you think I'm being paranoid, please note what has been said by such prominent figures as Robert Kennedy Jr. and David Suzuki; that is, they view climate realists as felons. Even the lawyers for Michael Mann would like to apply RICO laws against Mark Steyn who challenged Mann’s fraudulent “hockey stick” graph; that is, his bogus global temperature graph.

In reality, the alarmist climate narrative is not about science. Christiana Figueres (Executive Secretary UNFCCC) recently admitted that the primary purpose of the narrative is to gain acceptance for a new economic world order. Needless to say, it would be reasonable to assume that we will then be governed by corrupt, unelected, UN bureaucrats anxious to steal redistribute our wealth.

Will Ottawa follow Ontario down the carbon-free road to bankruptcy? A weak, low-carbon economy will not only move us towards an impoverished, Medieval lifestyle but will also threaten the unity of Canada and make us more vulnerable to the radicals of the world.

In addition to the foregoing man-made disasters, there is the natural threat of global cooling within 15 years. Will our politicians wake up in time to develop a strategy enabling Canadians to adapt to lower temperatures and to cope with the consequential reduction of farm output?

Let us hope that truth and common sense will prevail.

Thorpe

 

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GLOBAL COOLING: Decade long ice age predicted as sun 'hibernates'

SCIENTISTS claim we are in for a decade-long freeze as the sun slows down solar activity by up to 60 per cent.

By Jon Austin

PUBLISHED: 03:07, Thu, Nov 5, 2015

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/616937/GLOBAL-COOLING-Decade-long-ice-age-predicted-as-sun-hibernates

A team of European researchers have unveiled a scientific model showing that the Earth is likely to experience a “mini ice age” from 2030 to 2040 as a result of decreased solar activity.

Their findings will infuriate environmental campaigners who argue by 2030 we could be facing increased sea levels and flooding due to glacial melt at the poles.