Pipeline company TransCanada said it had $9.75 billion worth of projects on tap that will expand its North American footprint despite recent political setbacks. “Our $50 billion portfolio of high-quality, long-life energy infrastructure assets are expected to continue generating stable and predictable results through various market conditions,” Russ Girling, TransCanada’s president and chief executive officer, told investors in Toronto. In its third quarter earnings report, the Canadian pipeline company said earnings of $337 million were 2 percent lower than third quarter 2014. For the nine months ending Sept. 30, earnings of $970 million were down 7.6 percent year-on-year. That beat some of its peers in an energy sector struggling to endure through a depressed oil economy. Girling said his company was performing well, […]