Enbridge pipeline expansion project good news locally

“They’re important for forestry workers, and they’re very important for the generation that’s coming into the workforce, that’s struggling to find jobs,” says Charles Scott with UNBC’s School of Business. “If your 22-year-old looks scared, it’s because they’re paying attention. So this is an excellent opportunity for good paying jobs and lots of them in our region, which we need.”

The company maintains it will bring $2.4 million in municipal taxes to the city and the regional district over 35 years. While the mayor says while it’s a modest amount, when service sector industries are feeding this pipeline-machine, it’s good for the tax base. And its an energy wake up for the nation.

“I think that around the country and around the world, people realize, you know, Canada, Canada is the energy resources powerhouse. And Prince George, you will center around the area of the size of France, really. We have all sort of mineral energy around us. And I think, you know, our prime minister, the rest of Canada and the rest of the world wake up is waking up to the to the reality. Prince George is where the center of the action.”

And Scott says this is yet another message to our former best trading to the south.

“We have had conversations about what we’re going to do with our resources that are in the context of a US led, globalized, stable market. I don’t know if anybody’s noticed that today. So Canada in 2026 needs to act differently than Canada in 2023, because it’s not 2023, and becoming more self-sufficient is a way to maintain sovereignty.”

With getting underway this summer, the target service date is late 2028.

by Cheryl Jahn

Enbridge pipeline expansion project good news locally

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