Texas buys up Canadian Oil/Gas pipelines

Canada is fast becoming the economic battleground between China and the US. Yesterdy, Kinder Morgan announced a $7 billion takeover bid of Terasen Gas of British Columbia. Terasen is a major pipeline operator into the oil and gas fields of Northern BC and Alberta and is active in the Oil Sands. (Audio Podcast Available) It …

Inside the Earth and Beyond Neptune

A couple interesting scientific discoveries lately. One was the discovery of another "minor planet" that resides in the Kuiper Belt of asteroids beyond Neptune. There have actually been two of these large space rocks found recently. The BBC reports extensively on "2003 UB313". It seems to be the largest of the objects, larger than pluto …