Talk about cognitive dissonance,  the fancy term for putting your hands over your ears, and closing your eyes.
The author, a research director at the right-wing C.D. Howe Institute,  clearly points out it was the drop in global oil prices combined with the Kinder-Morgan project and a new deal for shipping natural gas that made Energy East an unworkable business model.
But why go with something based on facts when conspiracy theories are so much  more fun?