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Labor unions on Monday alerted President Obama to what they consider to be a gross error by his administration in interfering last month with the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline at a time when the courts are still sorting out lawsuits by the backers and opponents.

Two Dominion subsidiaries began locking out 915 union-represented employees across six states Wednesday until negotiations on a new labor contract are completed.

The Labors’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) and a newly created activist group, Bold Iowa, are bumping heads over the four-state, nearly 1,200-mile Dakota Access oil pipeline that is now under construction.

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.

Southwestern Ontario’s natural gas distribution company, Union Gas Ltd., confirmed Friday that further expansion is planned on the northbound pipeline network into central Canada from the United States.

Southwestern Ontario’s natural gas distribution company, Union Gas Ltd., confirmed Friday that further expansion is planned on the northbound pipeline network into central Canada from the United States.

A friend in high places has stepped forward to support TransCanada Corp.’s plan for enabling growth in U.S. shale gas exports to Ontario and Quebec by working with their distributors on additions to northbound pipeline capacity.

Partial approval was granted Friday to the first in a planned series of additions to the northbound freeway for growing U.S. natural gas exports to central Canada.

A summer of dueling over services and tolls on the crowded eastern end of TransCanada Corp.’s natural gas Mainline ended Friday in a deal to eliminate the cause of the fight by adding capacity.