Canada clears $4 billion sunrise pipeline as first big test of faster approvals – Wealth Professional Canada
Apr 27, 2026
Ottawa has handed Enbridge Inc. a $4bn test of how quickly Canada can now move major energy projects from approval to in-service.
According to an Enbridge statement, the federal government has approved the Sunrise Expansion Program, a $4bn natural gas expansion of Enbridge’s Westcoast pipeline system in British Columbia.
The Westcoast system currently moves 3.6bn cubic feet of gas per day from fields in northeastern BC and northwestern Alberta to the Canada–US border, and Sunrise will add 300m cubic feet per day of capacity.
