{"id":814925,"date":"2026-07-20T21:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814925\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:09:08","slug":"construction-begins-on-enbridge-natural-gas-pipeline-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814925\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction begins on Enbridge natural gas pipeline expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0July 20, 2026 at 2:46PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0July 20, 2026 at 2:42PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PRINCE GEORGE \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/stock\/ENB:UN\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/stock\/ENB:UN\/\">Enbridge Inc. <\/a>has broken ground on a $4-billion natural gas pipeline expansion in British Columbia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The federal government approved the Sunrise Expansion Program in April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The project aims to add another 300 million cubic feet per day of transportation capacity to the province\u2019s natural gas transmission system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sunrise project is using Canadian melted and poured steel supplied by InterPro Pipe and Steel in Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The federal government says Sunrise will help ensure natural gas supplies are available to liquefied natural gas export facilities on the West Coast while meeting local needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Enbridge holds a 30 per cent stake in the Woodfibre LNG export terminal under construction in Squamish, B.C. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sunrise expansion will add about 140 kilometres of new pipe to Enbridge\u2019s existing 2,900-kilometre Westcoast Pipeline. Enbridge plans to build 11 looping segments parallel to the existing pipeline, and also boost throughput through compression and other upgrades. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Last year, an alliance of 28 Indigenous communities in B.C. acquired a 12.5 per cent stake in the existing Westcoast. Enbridge has previously said those groups are not obligated to take on equity of the expansion, but have the option to do so. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u2014 By Lauren Krugel in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0July 20, 2026 at 2:46PM EDT Published:\u00a0July 20, 2026 at 2:42PM EDT PRINCE GEORGE \u2014 Enbridge Inc. has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,14236,14237],"class_list":["post-814925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-oilgas","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814925","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=814925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}