TransCanada seeking 30-day suspension of Energy East application

CALGARY — The future of the Energy East pipeline has been thrown into question after TransCanada Corp. announced it wants to suspend for now its application to build the $15.7-billion project.
In a statement Thursday, Calgary-based TransCanada says it filed a letter to the National Energy Board asking for a 30-day suspension for the proposed the 4,500-km pipeline which would carry crude from Alberta and Saskatchewan to refineries in Eastern Canada.
The company says it wants to study how th