Jellyfish in the cooling water intake have forced the shutdown of Sweden’s largest nuclear reactor, which generates about 10% of the country’s electricity. As bizarre as this sounds, jellyfish have caused problems at power plants in several countries, including the US. [CNN]

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that state-controlled energy company Petronas is going to build a C$36 billion liquefied natural gas plant and associated pipeline in Canada, following its C$5.2 bln acquisition of Canadian independent Progress Energy, through which it purchased large holdings in the Montney shale. Petronas will be going head to head with several other large companies pursuing Canadian LNG export projects, such as Chevron and Shell. [Bloomberg]

The proposed Energy East pipeline linking Alberta’s oil sands to market seemed less controversial than Keystone XL and Northern Gateway when we wrote about it last week, but TransCanada has since announced that it is delaying the line over environmental concerns. “[TransCanada] said it will not file an application for the smaller-scale Energy East project with the Canadian National Energy Board until next year because more environmental work still needs to be done.” Perhaps the company is doing additional preparatory work to avoid repeating its Keystone experience. [International Business Tribune]