Ontario

The Ontario Energy Board has approved applications from Spectra Energy Corp. subsidiary Union Gas Ltd. and Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. for 15-year contracts to move natural gas from the Appalachian Basin into the Union Gas Dawn Hub in Ontario on the Nexus Gas Transmission system.

Replacing natural gas delivery capacity has grown into a C$2.1 billion (US$1.5 billion) parallel construction project to the proposed Energy East partial conversion of TransCanada Corp.’s Mainline into oil service.

The next move to widen the natural gas freeway for imports into Canada from the United States began Tuesday when Spectra Energy’s Union Gas called for bids to increase traffic on its share of the route.

Imports from the United States into Ontario and Quebec are expected to rise by up to 20% when TransCanada Corp. completes the next addition to the eastern legs in its natural gas Mainline in November 2017.

TransCanada Corp. on Monday secured Ontario and Quebec cooperation with its Energy East plan for partial conversion of its Mainline to oil service by dropping attempts to load project costs onto natural gas distribution companies.

National support has swiftly fallen short of volunteering to pay for Canadian oil and natural gas export pipeline projects.

A completion target of fourth-quarter 2019 is set for a new underwater link between the electricity grids of Ontario, 13 Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern U.S. states and the District of Columbia by a construction application to Canada's National Energy Board.

A completion target of fourth-quarter 2019 is set for a new underwater link between the electricity grids of Ontario, 13 Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern U.S. states and the District of Columbia by a construction application to Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB).

TransCanada Corp. obtained approval Thursday for a step toward expanding the busy northbound natural gas freeway for imports into…