CHEYENNE (AP) — Developers will take bids from power generators, distributors and others for space on a proposed power line to transmit electricity from eastern Wyoming to the Colorado Front Range.
Developers of the “Wyoming-Colorado Intertie” project will hold an open-season auction in June, hoping to collect commitments for up to 900 megawatts of transmission.
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CODY – A series of golden eagle deaths by electrocution from power lines east of Worland has prompted a federal investigation, and the power company involved said it is continuing extensive work to correct the problem.
Thirteen golden eagles have died near Worland since December, most at sites along power lines running through the Cottonwood Oil Field, said Jeff Hymas, a spokesman for Rocky Mountain Power.
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TransCanada Corp. has secured a major boost to its plans for the long-awaited $5.2-billion Keystone oil pipeline, securing a U.S. presidential permit that allows the construction of the gargantuan infrastructure project.While TransCanada must still secure some approvals from U.S. states, getting the presidential permit was considered to be the largest regulatory hurdle to getting Keystone approved. The company expects the pipeline, which will be the most expensive yet built by TransCanada, to open up a vast, untapped market in the southern U.S. for Canadian producers, creating new buyers and improving price stability for crude from Alberta’s oil sands.
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A public hearing on what would be the first merchant transmission line between Canada and the United States drew 100 residents to Great Falls on Tuesday, with economic development officials and elected officials singing its praises and farmers raising concerns.
The $150 million Montana Alberta Tie Line would stretch 230 miles — 129 of them in Montana — between Great Falls and Lethbridge, Alberta. It’s being proposed by Montana Alberta Tie Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Toronto-based Tonbridge Power Inc.
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A public hearing on what would be the first merchant transmission line between Canada and the United States drew 100 residents to Great Falls on Tuesday, with economic development officials and elected officials singing its praises and farmers raising concerns.
The $150 million Montana Alberta Tie Line would stretch 230 miles — 129 of them in Montana — between Great Falls and Lethbridge, Alberta. It’s being proposed by Montana Alberta Tie Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Toronto-based Tonbridge Power Inc.
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“But if the demand for transportation materializes more quickly, we would look at building a direct line,” Kvisle was quoted as saying. “Either way, the discussions are well advanced and this is one of the future projects that we will be bringing forward here in the months ahead.”
The company is already targeting the region with its proposed
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CALGARY — Enbridge Inc. has lined up enough support from a clutch of Asian refiners and Canadian oil producers to revive its $4-billion plan to build a pipeline from the oil sands to the West Coast, just months after China pulled out of the project. Enbridge has now turned to Southeast Asia to find customers for its Gateway pipeline and attracted enough funding from refiners there to accelerate work on winning regulatory approval, says Enbridge chief executive officer Patrick Daniel. “The pull from the other end of Gateway, initially, was primarily from the Chinese, but in this initiative the Chinese are not participants,” Mr. Daniel told investors at a conference in Whistler, B.C., Thursday.
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BISMARCK — The TransCanada Keystone Pipeline shouldn’t have a final go-ahead yet because a federal environmental study failed to heed the increased global warming caused by the “dirty” tar sands oil the line would carry, environmental groups said Wednesday.
The groups, including the Dickinson–based Dakota Resource Council, also charge that the proposed pipe strength isn’t good enough to ensure groundwater safety and that the federal study neglected to consider protection of American Indian cultural resources.
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The only public hearing in Montana on proposed energy corridors in 11 Western states prompted few comments Tuesday, even though almost every seat was taken in the meeting room at the Great Northern Hotel in Helena.
Most of those in attendance were representing some official organization and spoke in favor of designating corridors on federal lands for gas, electricity and other energy transmitters.
Specifically, they favor routes following Highway 287 from Townsend to Three Forks, then westward toward Butte and Anaconda and splitting to run north and south along the interstates.
Another favored route could run from Townsend across Interstate 15 and the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, then north to Garrison and continue into Idaho.
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CALGARY – Oilsands plants will net price premiums of up to $20 a barrel by extending exports to the Gulf of Mexico coast, TransCanada Corp. president Harold Kvisle predicted Thursday.
Thirsty Texas and Louisiana refineries routinely pay more than crowded markets closer to the Alberta bitumen belt.
TransCanada is poised to build new southbound links to the Gulf facilities.
Oilsands supplies are sought after in the region as secure and reliable replacements for unpredictable imports from declining production sources in Venezuela and Mexico, he said.
About $5.2 billion in construction will start this spring on the first and longest leg in a planned new oil route from the Hardisty pipeline hub southeast of
Edmonton to the U.S. gulf coast, Kvisle told an industry conference held by Insight Information.
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