Pipeline To Saint John Gaining Momentum With New Announcement

TransCanada Corporation is looking for commitments to extend a pipeline to transport oil from the West to Saint John which would involve converting three thousand kilometres of existing natural gas pipeline to one that could carry crude oil and then 14 hundred kilometres of new pipeline stretching to the Irving Oil Refinery from Quebec.

Federal Cabinet Minister Keith Ashfield calls Transcanada's apparent support of a West-East pipeline an encouraging step forward.
 
Premier David Alward says he envisions the province becoming an energy powerhouse with Saint John as a anchor of that powerhouse.