CALGARY — The federal government has approved a $4-billion plan by Enbridge Inc. to expand an existing natural gas pipeline in British Columbia, a move one executive says demonstrates a greater “sense of purpose” from Ottawa toward bolstering Canada’s status as a global energy exporter.
The Sunrise project would add 300 million cubic feet per day of transportation capacity on Enbridge’s 3.6-billion-cubic-feet-per-day Westcoast system, which connects gas fields in northeastern B.C. and northwestern Alberta to the Canada-U.S. border. The project involves adding almost 140 kilometres of new pipe by constructing 11 looping segments parallel to the existing line.
The gas that would flow through the expanded line
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