Blogger's imagination ... and, more on global unwarming, etc.

Thomas Lamb's Blog.  The Republican who heads up the federal agency overseeing the proposed construction of Alaska's natural gas pipeline is stepping down at the request of President Barack Obama.  Hmmmmm...... The Denali project is seeking Gazprom's support and there are rumblings that the Hickel LNG project may be linked up with the Denali project.   Hickel is supporting Bill Walker in the Republican primary for Governor and Sarah Palin is supporting Sean Parnell.  And the bad news on TransCanada emerges?

Reuters-Canada.  Roads, buildings and pipelines in Canada's north are at risk from global warming and the government must do more to protect infrastructure in the remote frozen region, an official panel said Thursday.  Temperatures in the north -- which includes the Arctic -- are rising much faster than elsewhere in the world, and this comes at a time of increasing interest in the area's vast mineral and energy reserves.  The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) said the permafrost layer had begun to melt, a development that can have disastrous consequences.  (Publisher's note: 'Also, the sky is falling.'  -dh    See our earlier links, including Paula Easley's analysis.)