U.S. pipeline group cranks up operations in TransCanada's turf

Financial Post ^ | Tuesday, February 17, 2009 | Carrie Tait

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CALGARY -- The U.S. pipeline group competing against TransCanada Corp. to build the Alaska natural-gas pipeline is cranking up operations in its rival's backyard, with plans to start field work here this winter, expanding its staff and recently opening its own office in Calgary.

"We're starting field work [in Canada] this winter," said Bob Bleaney, Denali Canada's general manager, integration. "It hasn't started yet, but the planning work is underway here in the offices. The groundwork will commence a little later on this winter."

Further, Denali, which is owned by BP PLC and ConocoPhillips Inc., has also hired Daniel Ouimet away from Bennett Jones LLP, where he was the Calgary law firm's business development director, to handle external relations. He joined Denali last week and will take care of its dealings with Ottawa, Alberta, British Columbia and Yukon.

Blueprints for the 2,760-kilometre-long pipeline have been kicking around for 30 years, with little progress. The race to build the pipeline, which would ferry gas from Alaska's North Slope to the lower 48 states, was jump-started last summer when Sarah Palin, the state's Governor, pushed through the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act.

Alaska crowned TransCanada as the AGIA-licensee, giving it a package of financial goodies to be used in the preliminary phases of the project.

Denali did not participate in Ms. Palin's AGIA process. But its presence in Canada demonstrates its commitment to challenging TransCanada.

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Blueprints for the 2,760-kilometre-long pipeline have been kicking around for 30 years, with little progress. The race to build the pipeline, which would ferry gas from Alaska's North Slope to the lower 48 states, was jump-started last summer when Sarah Palin, the state's Governor and failed vice presidential candidate who was recently found to owe back taxes to the IRS, pushed through the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act.

There, I press-ified it.

[bray]

They are terrified of her. Let the Establishment media try to make this stick. We will expose the lies and so will she. She should hammer them on this.

PRay for America and Our Troops

[SolidWood]

Blueprints for the 2,760-kilometre-long pipeline have been kicking around for 30 years, with little progress. The race to build the pipeline, which would ferry gas from Alaska's North Slope to the lower 48 states, was jump-started last summer when Sarah Palin, the state's Governor and failed vice presidential candidate who was recently found to owe back taxes to the IRS and mother of an unwed teenage mom, who badly stumbled during interviews with Katie Couric (check out the new Katie Couric Videos here) and Charlie Gibson (watch Charlie Gibson lecturing you here), pushed through the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act.

Brought it to CBS standard.

[scooby321]

Owed back taxes? Is she up for a Job in 0’s Cabinent?

[SolidWood]

No she actually doesn’t owe back taxes. It’s just the latest BS MSM hype.

[Zeppelin]

Yes she does. she owes back taxes for...fiscal year 2008...which need to be filed in...April 2009...dammit!

Well that doesn’t matter! She said she can see Russia from her house!

What? That was Tina Fey? Drat! What other non-stories can we conjur up?

[SolidWood]

Uhm... she doesn’t know what Africa is! According to annonymous rumors... although she can talk in length about the crisis in Darfur.

[Zeppelin]

Yeah? Well I heard that she thought that an eagle landed on the moon, which is the 7th planet from the sun, which revolves around the earth!

your move.

[SolidWood]

Well I heard that she thought that an eagle landed on the moon, which is the 7th planet from the sun, which revolves around the earth!

LOL!

Okay, uhm... she was using taxpayer money to buy luxury clothing for her daughters.