A story published yesterday reveals that gas and oil markets have changed to the point where TRP has an additional option for this project, the do nothing option.

Four years ago one of its two main gas pipelines was under utilized, a dead asset. Not so any more. Also projections of oil production growth in the western Canada over the next 13 years are no longer sufficient for all the pipelines already approved.

There are many whose hopes for economic gains from this project have been dashed. They should not blame the federal government nor opponents of the pipeline. 

If built without sufficient oil to flow through it Energy East would cause severe financial problems for everyone involved, bringing regional tensions of a different sort.