David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
I have no doubt whatsoever that the NEB, the Irving Clan and all the other greasy gassy oily guys recall my intervention in the Emera Pipeline Project in 2006
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/02/transcanada-asks-to-use-existing.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/transcanada-corp-natural-gas-alberta-1.5021964
TransCanada asks to use existing pipelines to ship gas east
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David Amos
I'm Back Surprise Surprise Surprise
Roger Richard
@David Amos Me too.
Marc Martin
@David Amos
Where did you both go?
Where did you both go?
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks you
must have figured out that we were busy partying hardy over the
resignation of your hero Gerald Butts N'esy Pas?
If not need I say we are still Happy Happy Happy?
If not need I say we are still Happy Happy Happy?
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks the SANB should check my work within the "Most Liked" threads before they all evaporate N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gerald-butts-resigns-pmo-1.5023675
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gerald-butts-resigns-pmo-1.5023675
Marc Martin
@David Amos
Methinks the Anglo Society should try harder to get more fans...You currently have 3 followers... :)
Methinks the Anglo Society should try harder to get more fans...You currently have 3 followers... :)
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks you
know as well as I that the PANB and the Anglo Society don't like the
Chief of the Amos Clan and that mon ami Roger Richard is a Very Proud
Acadian who ran against your beloved former President of the SANB in the
last election N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
*Chief of the Amos Clan*
Is that another anti-French clan ?
*Chief of the Amos Clan*
Is that another anti-French clan ?
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Al Bekirkey
Al Bekirkey
@Marc Martin such a vapid response
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks I know libel when I read it and so do you N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
You should stop libel me then N'esy Pas?
You should stop libel me then N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
You should stop libel me then N'esy Pas?
You should stop libel me then N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks the
real "Marc Martin" would have to place charges against me with the RCMP
and then wait and see if the Crwon would be willing to prosecute me
under Section 300 of the Criminal Code. In the "Mean" I can sue the
governments two dudes named Marc Martin work for in Federal Court in
Fredericton N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
You can sue all you want buddy, make sure you have the right Marc Martin tough and after all the libel and harassment you have put the 2 others trough I am pretty sure you are heading for a brick wall.
You can sue all you want buddy, make sure you have the right Marc Martin tough and after all the libel and harassment you have put the 2 others trough I am pretty sure you are heading for a brick wall.
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks if you
had bothered to read my lawsuit that you were promoting last month then
you or your lawyer would have understand that I sued the Crown you work
for not individuals (Not yet anyway) N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
*you are just another overpaid bureaucratic snob from Quebec N'esy Pas?*
Libel ? again Davis ?
*if you had bothered to read my lawsuit that you were promoting last month*
I think your mixed up, you were promoting your own lawsuit...
*last month then you or your lawyer *
Again Libel....You are associatin me with divers individual Davis...
*you are just another overpaid bureaucratic snob from Quebec N'esy Pas?*
Libel ? again Davis ?
*if you had bothered to read my lawsuit that you were promoting last month*
I think your mixed up, you were promoting your own lawsuit...
*last month then you or your lawyer *
Again Libel....You are associatin me with divers individual Davis...
David Amos
@Marc Martin Who is Davis?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
you know who you are Davis..
you know who you are Davis..
David Amos
I have no doubt whatsoever
that the NEB, Trans Canada, Enbridge, the Irving Clan and all the other
greasy gassy oily guys recall my intervention in the Emera Pipeline
Project in 2006 while I ran against Ed Doherty in Saint John Harbour.
Methinks PUBLIC Records cannot be easily denied N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
They want the USA market the maritimes are worthless to them, let see how the CoRservative leader handles this.
David Amos
@Marc Martin They sold to the Yankees for decades My home in Beantown is the irrefutable proof of that simple fact.
Methinks you SANB dudes need to do your homework before you spout off N'esy Pas?
Methinks you SANB dudes need to do your homework before you spout off N'esy Pas?
Paul Bourgoin
@Marc Martin
Like he was instructed to do.
Like he was instructed to do.
David Amos
@Paul Bourgoin YUP
Marc Martin
@David Amos
Methinks you Anglo Society dudes need to do your own homework before you spout off N'esy Pas? Energy East is not currently in NB.
Methinks you Anglo Society dudes need to do your own homework before you spout off N'esy Pas? Energy East is not currently in NB.
David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks Emera certainly is N'esy Pas?
James Reed
@Marc Martin
This is before the National Energy Board
This is before the National Energy Board
Marc Martin
@James Reed
The province will still have a say if they accept it or not.
The province will still have a say if they accept it or not.
David Amos
@Marc Martin "Methinks you Anglo Society dudes need to do your own homework before you spout off N'esy Pas?"
Methinks Mr Higgs and everybody else but the SANB sheople know that my ancestors were Celtic NOT Anglos N'esy Pas?
Methinks Mr Higgs and everybody else but the SANB sheople know that my ancestors were Celtic NOT Anglos N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
*Methinks Mr Higgs and everybody else but the SANB sheople know that my ancestors were Celtic NOT Anglos N'esy Pas?*
But the only way the Anglo Society is if your anti-French and English, you fit both part.
*Methinks Mr Higgs and everybody else but the SANB sheople know that my ancestors were Celtic NOT Anglos N'esy Pas?*
But the only way the Anglo Society is if your anti-French and English, you fit both part.
David Amos
@Marc Martin Naw Methinks
everybody knows it is the SANB weasels I can't stand FYI I love French
ladies no matter where they hail from and I have lots of Acadian friends
quite likely far more than you do because I was born and raised on the
Bay Of Fundy and you are just another overpaid bureaucratic snob from
Quebec N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
*overpaid bureaucratic snob from Quebec 8
Libel again Davis ?
*overpaid bureaucratic snob from Quebec 8
Libel again Davis ?
Harold Benson
Enbridge has been a disaster
for NBers. They don't need to have any more slack cut after promising
cheap energy. Fool me once......
David Amos
@Harold Benson Methinks Sam was fooled as well N'esy Pas?
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Marc Martin
Marc Martin
@Harold Benson
Exactly but the thing is your idol the CoRservative leader and the purple leader are both for gas...
Exactly but the thing is your idol the CoRservative leader and the purple leader are both for gas...
Harold Benson
@Marc Martin He ain't my idol I'll guarantee you that. Never voted for any old boys party in my life.
Barb Flewwelling
@Harold Benson
Oil from Alberta. Better price than NS. No guff.
Oil from Alberta. Better price than NS. No guff.
David Amos
@Harold Benson "He ain't my idol I'll guarantee you that"
and POOF the SANB minion was gone N'esy Pas?
and POOF the SANB minion was gone N'esy Pas?
Harold Benson
@David Amos who?
David Amos
@Harold Benson Martin
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David Amos
David Amos
@Harold Benson Sam us have told you that I save everything
The SANB dude's were as follows:
"Exactly but the thing is your idol the CoRservative leader and the purple leader are both for gas..".
The SANB dude's were as follows:
"Exactly but the thing is your idol the CoRservative leader and the purple leader are both for gas..".
Paul Bourgoin
Where, who and how will Joe Public benefit from such a Deal?
David Amos
@Paul Bourgoin Perhaps lower gas prices as promised but I doubt it
Marc Martin
@Paul Bourgoin
They wont, this is a sale opportunity to get to sell their gas to this part of the USA.
They wont, this is a sale opportunity to get to sell their gas to this part of the USA.
Sakira Cadman
@Marc Martin Everyone knows
competing companies for a market share is bad for the consumer. It is
always best to have only one company set the price and not have any
competition.
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David Amos
David Amos
@Marc Martin "They wont, this is a sale opportunity to get to sell their gas to this part of the USA."
Methinks you should explain your opinion to the Trans Canada dudes I am certain that they could always use a good laugh after all the Energy East nonsense N'esy Pas?
Methinks you should explain your opinion to the Trans Canada dudes I am certain that they could always use a good laugh after all the Energy East nonsense N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Sakira Cadman Methinks either you jest too much or you are an NB Power boss N'esy Pas?
Roger Richard
In recent years, I defended
my home against shale gas, fluoridated water and smart meters. Guess
what? They are all coming back!
David Amos
@Roger Richard Methinks what
comes around goes around and around and around like a merry go round
until the "Powers That Be" who oversee the circus Get what they want
N'esy Pas Mon Ami?
Marc Martin
@Roger Richard
Some other things keep coming back also....
Some other things keep coming back also....
Bob Barino
@Roger Richard
The other choice is go where there is no carbon tax. Carbon and every else is released.
Where there is also no shale gas, no fluoridated water, no smart meters and no carbon tax. As well as no infrastructure; civil or social.
We all have choices. We don't have the right to make those choices for others.
The other choice is go where there is no carbon tax. Carbon and every else is released.
Where there is also no shale gas, no fluoridated water, no smart meters and no carbon tax. As well as no infrastructure; civil or social.
We all have choices. We don't have the right to make those choices for others.
Fred Dee
@Roger Richard
An they should!!! The decisions that are being made are wrong!!
We need fl in the water, true science shows that it is safe!! BS science is just that BS!!
Shale gas,, we need clean energy, we have the gas, lets use it!! Been doing so in NB for years!!!
sadly the LOUD ill informed have been doing well with the politicians!!
An they should!!! The decisions that are being made are wrong!!
We need fl in the water, true science shows that it is safe!! BS science is just that BS!!
Shale gas,, we need clean energy, we have the gas, lets use it!! Been doing so in NB for years!!!
sadly the LOUD ill informed have been doing well with the politicians!!
Barb Flewwelling
@Roger Richard
Man the ramparts. Bon chance.
Man the ramparts. Bon chance.
David Amos
@Bob Barino "We don't have the right to make those choices for others."
Mr Higgs does and WE elected him
Mr Higgs does and WE elected him
David Amos
@Fred Dee Roger does not BS
anyone. Methinks I would have to see you put your name on a ballot or
intervene in EUB Hearings or argue me in court before I let you off the
hook for attacking my friend N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
*Mr Higgs does and WE elected him*
I am glad you finally admit voting CoRservative.
*Mr Higgs does and WE elected him*
I am glad you finally admit voting CoRservative.
@Marc Martin Methinks it
would be obvious that I voted for myself. However I am part of the
electorate that put Higgs in the Premiers office for awhile. Seems that
Quebecois such as yourself don't understand such things N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
@David Amos
Libel again ?
Libel again ?
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David Amos
@Marc Martin It is not libel when it is true
Marc Bourque
Cheap and energy dont mix,we
all know that! So dont use that line to build a pipeline and yes we need
one for the economy but dont ever say we will benefit directly from
this...
David Amos
@Marc Bourque Methinks the
pipelines that already exist are what they intend to use all they need
is the EUB and the NEB blessings along with that of the US State
Department and perhaps Trump won't agree with their scheme N'esy Pas?
Bob Barino
@Marc Bourque
You actually mean oil flowing don't you????
You actually mean oil flowing don't you????
maude windsor
@Marc Bourque just go to how
many $$ you spent this winter to heat your home with furnace
oil.....then realize that if your heated with natural gas that cost
would be less than 10% costs.
David Amos
@maude windsor Dream on
Don't worry; the NIMBY
sheeples and the protesters, same old faces (likely with a little
financial help from obscure groups in the US), will be doing everything
in its power to prevent anything that might benefit the province.
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David Amos
@Craig O'Donnell True However not all of us are NIMBY sheeples or political spindoctors
David Amos
@Craig O'Donnell Hmmm
Rick Munroe
Assuming that this pipeline
will be designed using robust steel and FBE coating, etc there should be
little reason to oppose this project.
I'm surprised that BC gas could be delivered more cheaply than US gas from the Marcellus but regardless of source the new transmission pipeline would be needed.
I'm surprised that BC gas could be delivered more cheaply than US gas from the Marcellus but regardless of source the new transmission pipeline would be needed.
David Amos
@Rick Munroe I agree
Peter Bota
@Rick Munroe did you even read the article? It's an already existing pipeline. They just want to reverse the direction of flow
David Amos
@Peter Bota They still have to bring it up the standards of today
Daniel Rawlins
@Rick Munroe
Did either of you actually read the story? Nat gas will be piped through existing lines leaving Canada at the Quebec border, run through the States the back in to Canada through the existing gas line in NB that carried NS offshore gas to the US for export, this line would merely change from export to import.
The biggest hurdle will be getting National Energy Board(NEB) approval.
Did either of you actually read the story? Nat gas will be piped through existing lines leaving Canada at the Quebec border, run through the States the back in to Canada through the existing gas line in NB that carried NS offshore gas to the US for export, this line would merely change from export to import.
The biggest hurdle will be getting National Energy Board(NEB) approval.
Fred Dee
We need the gas... it is a gas pipeling... just changing direction!!!
David Amos
@Fred Dee True
Barb Flewwelling
Go for it!
David Amos
@Barb Flewwelling I agree
However methinks Algonquin Power and Utilities are crazy to want to do
business with the Irving Clan especially after their dealings with
Repsol The public record easily proves that Mr Higgs and his minions in
the EUB know that I don't care what Peter Hyslop thinks about anything
N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/irving-oil-repsol-tax-court-documents-1.3214304
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/irving-oil-repsol-tax-court-documents-1.3214304
Marc Martin
*Stefan Baranski,
TransCanada’s director of commercial markets in Eastern Canada, says the
plan may mean savings for New Brunswickers. (CBC )*
MAY MEAN SAVINGS...all they want is the USA market.
MAY MEAN SAVINGS...all they want is the USA market.
David Amos
@Marc Martin Nope The Irving Clan wants the gas
Daniel Rawlins
@Marc Martin
Hate to burst your bubble my friend but the US has had access to Canadian natural gas for decades it is Atlantic Canada that has had no access to western Canadian natural gas or oil by pipeline.
Hate to burst your bubble my friend but the US has had access to Canadian natural gas for decades it is Atlantic Canada that has had no access to western Canadian natural gas or oil by pipeline.
Matt Steele
@Daniel Rawlins ......Very
true ; it is good to see someone commenting who ACTUALLY knows the facts
, and not someone who just makes things up because they don't know
anything about the situation .
David Amos
@Daniel Rawlins You are correct I lived in Beantown for decades and used it to to my kids warm fed and dry
Marc Martin
@Daniel Rawlins
Your not bursting any bubbles buddy, natural wont be sold here cheap all they want is to have access to sell it to the USA from the maritimes, by the way the Americains close to the Atlantic don't have access to any gaz line from the maritimes.
Your not bursting any bubbles buddy, natural wont be sold here cheap all they want is to have access to sell it to the USA from the maritimes, by the way the Americains close to the Atlantic don't have access to any gaz line from the maritimes.
Marc Martin
@Matt Steele
Tell me genius where does TransCanada corps gaz lines pass to the Atlantic USA ????
Tell me genius where does TransCanada corps gaz lines pass to the Atlantic USA ????
Marc Martin
@David Amos
TransCanada does not bring you gaz.
TransCanada does not bring you gaz.
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David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks you must reek of methane with all the BS you spew all day long N'eay Pas?
David Amos
@Marc Martin You do
Marc Martin
@David Amos
That's not gas its because you have your nose too close to your mouth.
That's not gas its because you have your nose too close to your mouth.
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David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks I am wise enough to talk out of my mouth instead of the other end like you do N'esy Pas?
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David Amos
@Marc Martin Methinks that must be why you reek of methane N'esy Pas?
Roy Kirk
Note that this proposal, if
it comes to fruition, is mutually exclusive of the EnergyEast project.
It uses the line that was to be converted for dilbit transport under the
EE plan. We might have gas from TCP's pipeline, or we might have had
dilbit by their pipeline, but we can't have both, absent a truly massive
capital project.
David Amos
@Roy Kirk Mais Oui
Sakira Cadman
Such evil! Shut the pipeline
down now! We should be buying 100% of our natural gas from safe american
sources instead of shipping it across our country.
Sam Brown
@Sakira Cadman
Very well said......
Good day
Very well said......
Good day
David Amos
@Sakira Cadman I Wholeheartedly DISAGREE
Logos 2
@Sakira Cadman Humour ... I recognize it.
Matt Steele
Same old problem with Quebec
trying to block anything that may help N.B. ; the Federal Govt. should
open up the Constitution , and include an energy corridor across Canada
as part of the Constitution . Quebec uses the SANB to try and control
N.B. , and prevent N.B. from getting ahead . The SANB in turn uses the
N.B. Liberal Party to stop N.B. from prospering . Once a pipeline hits
the Quebec border , it SHOULD NOT have to veer into the U.S. in order to
supply the Atlantic Provinces . Something needs to CHANGE !
Stephen Long
@Matt Steele I wonder if the
refusal of Quebec to allow the oil pipeline has anything to do with the
million dollar contracts SNC-Lavelin has with the Saudi's?
David Amos
@Stephen Long Nope
Eric Plexe
@Matt Steele - Actually, as
per the article - “the natural gas would move on TransCanada's Canadian
mainline as far as Quebec, then cross the border to travel through U.S.
lines in New England. It would then travel back into Canada via the
Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline that links this region to the United
States.”
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Al Bekirkey
it does make tremendous sense
our current supply is running out we dont want to risk our water with
todays technology to get our own and the pipes are their keep em full
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David Amos
David Amos
@Al Bekirkey YUP
SarahRose Werner
Using the existing pipeline
makes a good deal of sense. I'd like to hear more about the amount of
construction involved in building the pumping stations and the
environmental impacts of building the pumping stations and operating
them and the pipeline. The maps shows only one of the new pumping
stations as being in Quebec - do other similar pumping stations already
operate in Quebec west of St-Leonard?
SarahRose Werner
@SarahRose Werner - Oops!
The map I was looking at was for the abandoned Energy East project.
(Why the heck did the CBC bother including it?) Does the proposed
project require no new construction at all? If true, sweet!
David Amos
@SarahRose Werner "Using the existing pipeline makes a good deal of sense"
Explain that to the SANB dude.
Explain that to the SANB dude.
Golab Adi
As a Canadian you got my
support for exporting either Oil or Gas or both. We should have access
to global market and no province can block this access. The only thing
is Quebec wants to develop its own oil and gas resources. So, they might
be against this pipeline. The only solution is having a federal
government capable of creating millions of jobs every year.
David Amos
@Golab Good luck with that
Bart Roberts
When will dump-and-runners pay for cleaning up the fossil fume mess they make?
I'm not asking much: just a plan to return the fossil CO2e they put in the air through their customers back to the mineral form it started as.
It can be done mechanically for $380/tonne CO2. It's the right thing to do: everyone else cleans up their messes.
Speaking of everyone else, 197 countries are either reducing their planned CO2e emissions at least 70%, with a long term plan to cease emissions entirely, or holding steady with future plans to reduce, or reducing their emissions right now. Only Canada in the last five years has substantially increased emissions, up 65% from 1.6% of total global emissions to 2.6%, from 12th highest emitter to 8th highest, from 6th per capita to 3rd per capita. In just a decade we've gone from 1.3% of global emissions to 2.6% -- doubling in a decade, a record no other nation has ever held.
Canada is failing, because Canada lets fossil dine-and-dashers dump without paying.
I'm not asking much: just a plan to return the fossil CO2e they put in the air through their customers back to the mineral form it started as.
It can be done mechanically for $380/tonne CO2. It's the right thing to do: everyone else cleans up their messes.
Speaking of everyone else, 197 countries are either reducing their planned CO2e emissions at least 70%, with a long term plan to cease emissions entirely, or holding steady with future plans to reduce, or reducing their emissions right now. Only Canada in the last five years has substantially increased emissions, up 65% from 1.6% of total global emissions to 2.6%, from 12th highest emitter to 8th highest, from 6th per capita to 3rd per capita. In just a decade we've gone from 1.3% of global emissions to 2.6% -- doubling in a decade, a record no other nation has ever held.
Canada is failing, because Canada lets fossil dine-and-dashers dump without paying.
David Amos
@Bart Roberts What is your cut and paste point as it pertains to this article?
Lou Bell
As usual ,for the Greens ,
no big kick to not bring in outside product and not develop our own,
you know , outta sight , outta mind !
David Amos
@Lou Bell Yawn I read enough nonsense today time for bed
TransCanada asks to use existing pipelines to ship gas east
Enbridge, Irving support TransCanada's proposal, which awaits National Energy Board approval
The company that once hoped to
ship Alberta crude oil to New Brunswick is now pitching itself as one of
the province's best hopes for a stable, inexpensive supply of natural
gas.
TransCanada Corp. is asking federal regulators for permission to sign new long-term supply contracts to ship gas from Western Canada through existing pipelines to eastern markets, including Atlantic Canada.
The two main natural gas retailers in New Brunswick, Enbridge Gas New Brunswick and Irving Oil, are supporting the application.
The western gas would provide them with a new source of supply to replace Nova Scotia's offshore gas, which shut down last year.
TransCanada
proposed five pump stations for the Energy East pipeline in New
Brunswick, including Saint-Léonard, Plaster Rock, Stanley, Cumberland
Bay and Hampton. It has since abandoned the project. (CBC)
Enbridge general manager Gilles Volpé
says if the plan is approved, "it gives access to more capacity, and
more access to the Alberta-based natural gas. That natural gas is
plentiful, of course, but it's also very stable from a price point of
view."
It's possible the commodity price portion of residential natural gas bills could be reduced 30 to 40 percent, he said.
In 2017, TransCanada abandoned plans to build the Energy East pipeline to carry heavy oil from Alberta to an export terminal in Saint John. The company cited new emissions standards in the regulatory review of the project.
With no pipeline link between the rest of Canada and the Maritimes, the natural gas would move on TransCanada's Canadian mainline as far as Quebec, then cross the border to travel through U.S. lines in New England.
It would then travel back into Canada via the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline that links this region to the United States.
Stefan
Baranski, TransCanada’s director of commercial markets in Eastern
Canada, says the plan may mean savings for New Brunswickers. (CBC )
"Eastern
Canadian markets will be served by western Canadian gas, which is
pretty exciting from our perspective," said Stefan Baranski,
TransCanada's director of commercial markets in Eastern Canada,
Volpé says TransCanada already ships some gas to Atlantic Canada on the route, but "this provides more capacity to bring more gas this way."
TransCanada and interveners are now filing documents with the National Energy Board, which must approve the proposal. Enbridge's application to intervene says the plan is "critical" to its New Brunswick operations.
"EGNB does not have access to local supply, nor local natural gas storage facilities to meet its franchise needs at this time and considers [gas from the west] as a valuable asset in meeting the needs of Atlantic Canada long term."
Irving Oil is supporting TransCanada's bid to use existing pipelines to ship natural gas east. (CBC)
Enbridge has signed a 20.5-year contract for the gas starting in 2021.
Irving Oil's contract would start Nov. 1 of this year. The company says in its filing it is "strongly supportive" of the plan and getting the new supply in place this fall is "extremely important to Irving Oil in meeting its needs for secure and reliable natural gas supplies for its operations in Atlantic Canada."
Enbridge
says in its filing that New England and Atlantic Canada have the
highest natural gas prices and are the most volatile market for gas.
"By having access to long-term supply with generally low volatility, EGNB is better able to provide valued service to our franchise area and provide an economical energy source which helps reduce the carbon footprint of this region in Canada," the filing says.
Enbridge
New Brunswick general manager Gilles Volpé says he supports
TransCanada's proposal to supply New Brunswick with western gas. (Radio-Canada)
TransCanada's
Energy East proposal would have seen the company convert one of its
existing natural gas lines from the Alberta-Saskatchewan border to near
the Ontario-Quebec border, then build a new line the rest of the way to
Saint John.
One of TransCanada's motives for Energy East was that its cross-Canada gas lines were losing money because they were operating below full capacity.
Ironically, the proposed long-term gas contracts would fill some of the unused space that would have been turned over to Energy East.
The right-of-way of TransCanada's Canadian mainline in North Bay, Ontario. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
Baranski
said the excess capacity allowed TransCanada to offer Atlantic Canadian
distributors a discounted price that is competitive with closer
supplies of gas in the U.S.
Enbridge says more stable pricing would also allow it to attract more customers — a prospect that has proven a challenge for the company since it began gas operations 20 years ago.
Last year, Calgary-based Enbridge announced it was selling its New Brunswick operations to Algonquin Power and Utilities, but the sale is still going through its own regulatory process.
In its filings with the National Energy Board, TransCanada says 17 companies have signed contracts ranging from 10 to 20½ years.
It is hoping for the board's approval by late summer.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
TransCanada Corp. is asking federal regulators for permission to sign new long-term supply contracts to ship gas from Western Canada through existing pipelines to eastern markets, including Atlantic Canada.
The two main natural gas retailers in New Brunswick, Enbridge Gas New Brunswick and Irving Oil, are supporting the application.
The western gas would provide them with a new source of supply to replace Nova Scotia's offshore gas, which shut down last year.
It's possible the commodity price portion of residential natural gas bills could be reduced 30 to 40 percent, he said.
Not Energy East
In 2017, TransCanada abandoned plans to build the Energy East pipeline to carry heavy oil from Alberta to an export terminal in Saint John. The company cited new emissions standards in the regulatory review of the project.
With no pipeline link between the rest of Canada and the Maritimes, the natural gas would move on TransCanada's Canadian mainline as far as Quebec, then cross the border to travel through U.S. lines in New England.
It would then travel back into Canada via the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline that links this region to the United States.
Volpé says TransCanada already ships some gas to Atlantic Canada on the route, but "this provides more capacity to bring more gas this way."
'Critical' application
TransCanada and interveners are now filing documents with the National Energy Board, which must approve the proposal. Enbridge's application to intervene says the plan is "critical" to its New Brunswick operations.
"EGNB does not have access to local supply, nor local natural gas storage facilities to meet its franchise needs at this time and considers [gas from the west] as a valuable asset in meeting the needs of Atlantic Canada long term."
Irving Oil's contract would start Nov. 1 of this year. The company says in its filing it is "strongly supportive" of the plan and getting the new supply in place this fall is "extremely important to Irving Oil in meeting its needs for secure and reliable natural gas supplies for its operations in Atlantic Canada."
"By having access to long-term supply with generally low volatility, EGNB is better able to provide valued service to our franchise area and provide an economical energy source which helps reduce the carbon footprint of this region in Canada," the filing says.
One of TransCanada's motives for Energy East was that its cross-Canada gas lines were losing money because they were operating below full capacity.
Ironically, the proposed long-term gas contracts would fill some of the unused space that would have been turned over to Energy East.
Enbridge says more stable pricing would also allow it to attract more customers — a prospect that has proven a challenge for the company since it began gas operations 20 years ago.
Last year, Calgary-based Enbridge announced it was selling its New Brunswick operations to Algonquin Power and Utilities, but the sale is still going through its own regulatory process.
In its filings with the National Energy Board, TransCanada says 17 companies have signed contracts ranging from 10 to 20½ years.
It is hoping for the board's approval by late summer.
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