{"id":625679,"date":"2026-04-24T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625679\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:17:08","slug":"government-approves-enbridge-4b-sunrise-natural-gas-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625679\/","title":{"rendered":"Government approves Enbridge $4B Sunrise natural gas project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0April 24, 2026 at 8:23AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0April 24, 2026 at 8:19AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has approved the $4 billion plan for the Enbridge natural gas pipeline expansion. Construction is set to begin this summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CALGARY \u2014 Federal Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson says the government has approved Enbridge Inc.\u2019s $4-billion Sunrise project in B.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The plan will see an expansion of the company\u2019s Westcoast natural gas pipeline system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The project includes the addition of about 139 kilometres of new pipeline by constructing 11 pipeline looping segments, parallel to the existing line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It will add up to 300 million cubic feet per day of transportation capacity on B.C.\u2019s major natural gas transmission system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The government says the increase will help ensure B.C. has enough gas supply as LNG export facilities like Woodfibre LNG come online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Construction is expected to begin this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 24, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0April 24, 2026 at 8:23AM EDT Published:\u00a0April 24, 2026 at 8:19AM EDT The federal government has approved the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,14236,714,14237],"class_list":["post-625679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-oilgas","tag-politics","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}