TransCanada Buying Marcellus-Powered Electric Plant in Lebanon PA

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TransCanadaCanadian company TransCanada is perhaps best known for its Keystone XL Pipeline project, a 1,179-mile crude oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska--if it ever gets built. Lord Obama opposes the pipeline and as we all know when a dictator opposes something, it doesn't happen. The Keystone XL Pipeline would flow Canadian crude oil as far south as Texas. However, moving Canadian oil isn't the only thing TransCanada does. They're also owners of electric generating plants, and one of the markets they have their eye on is the northeast with its access to abundant, clean-burning Marcellus Shale gas. Last week TransCanada announced a deal to buy the Ironwood natural gas-fired power plant located in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Ironwood produces up to 778 megawatts of electricity--enough electricity to power over half a million homes. TransCanada is paying $654 million to buy the plant...

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