Another TransCanada Pipeline To Protest
By Steve Horn for Desmog - TransCanada, the owner of the recently-nixed northern leg of the KeystoneXL tar sands pipeline, has won a bid from Mexico's government to build a 155-mile pipeline carrying gas from hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the United States to Mexico's electricity grid. The company has benefited from Mexico's energy sector privatization promoted by the U.S. State Department, the same agency that denied a permit to the U.S.-Canada border-crossing Keystone XL. TransCanada said in a press release that construction on the $500 million line will begin in 2016 and it will be called the Tuxpan-Tula Pipeline. This is not the first pipeline system TransCanada will oversee in Mexico. The company already owns four other systems, with two operational and two under construction.