TransCanada CEO Russ Girling announced the company is moving forward with the 1.1 million barrel-per-day Energy East Pipeline project at a news conference in Calgary in 2013 Like a game of pipeline whack-a-mole, a bid by TransCanada Corp., to suspend its controversial, north-south Keystone XL pipeline proposal has elevated the west-east Energy East pipeline plan to the top of Canada's political agenda. "With Keystone now delayed, even more important we approve Energy East," Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall posted on his Twitter account Tuesday while the U.S. State Department was still chewing over TransCanada's postponement bid.