To: SofaSpud who wrote (11101 ) 6/17/1998 2:51:00 AM From: Kerm Yerman Respond to of 15196
NEB / Application For Maritimes Received NEB RECEIVES APPLICATIONS FROM MARITIMES & NORTHEAST PIPELINE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PIPELINE LATERALS TO HALIFAX AND SAINT JOHN CALGARY, June 16 /CNW/ - The National Energy Board has received applications from Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline Management Ltd. (''M&NP''), on behalf of Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline Limited Partnership, for approval to construct natural gas pipeline laterals to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Saint John, New Brunswick. For the Halifax lateral, M&NP proposes to construct 121 kilometres (75 miles) of 323.9 millimetre (12 inch) outside diameter pipeline and associated facilities from its mainline near Stellarton, Nova Scotia to Nova Scotia Power's Tufts Cove generation station. The current volume of natural gas requested for transportation on the proposed lateral is approximately 1.7 million cubic metres (60.0 million cubic feet) per day. The estimated capital costs of the project is $74 million and the proposed in-service date is 1 November 1999. For the Saint John lateral, M&NP proposes to construct approximately 102 kilometres (63 miles) of 406.4 millimetre (16 inch) outside diameter pipeline and associated facilities from its mainline near Big Kedron Lake, New Brunswick to the City of Saint John. M&NP also proposes to construct approximately 8 kilometres (5 miles) of 168.3 millimetre, (6 inch) outside diameter pipeline and associated facilities from a point on the lateral to the Lake Utopia area. The current volume of natural gas requested for transportation on the lateral is approximately 3.7 million cubic metres (130.6 million cubic feet) per day. The estimated capital costs of the project is $91 million and the proposed in-service date is 1 November 1999. M&NP expects that large industrial and core market demand for natural gas will grow once distribution franchises contemplated by the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are in place.