Updating two of our pipeline stocks

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TRANSCANADA CORP. $42.88 (Toronto symbol TRP; Shares outstanding: 704.0 million; Market cap: $30.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.9%; www.transcanada.com) has agreed to reroute its proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline around an environmentally sensitive aquifer in Nebraska’s Sandhills region. The state government will work closely with TransCanada to find an acceptable route. That should speed up the environmental approval process. Keystone XL will pump oil from the Alberta oil sands through Oklahoma to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Last week, the U.S. State Department postponed a final decision on the project until 2013 to give TransCanada time to find a better route through Nebraska. This compromise makes it less likely that TransCanada will have to write off the $1.9 billion that it has already spent on the $7-billion project. TransCanada is a buy. ENBRIDGE INC. $36.14 (Toronto symbol ENB; Shares outstanding: 761.0 million; Market cap: $27.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 2.7%; www.enbridge.com) could benefit from the delay of…