The Canadian government recently approved the CAD $1.3 billion expansion of a natural gas gathering pipeline in western Canada, which belongs to a wholly owned subsidiary of TransCanada Corp. The NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd (NGTL) expansion project will create up to 3,000 jobs during construction and involve building and operating new gas pipelines facilities in northern Alberta, Natural Resources Canada ministry said in a statement.
The current NGTL System is a 23,500 km pipeline that gathers natural gas from the fast-growing Montney and Duvernay shale plays in northern Alberta and north-eastern British Columbia. The system is one of the largest in North America and gathers 66 per cent of the natural gas produced in western Canada.