Enbridge Pipelines

By Cheryl Jahn

Sunrise Expansion

Enbridge close to a final pipeline decision

Feb 10, 2026 | 3:14 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – As early this spring, Enbridge could begin work on expanding its natural gas pipeline between Fort St. John and Vancouver.

“This project is an expansion of the southern portion of our West Coast Pipeline system, which has been delivering natural gas across BC for almost 70 years now,” explains Rawnna Low with Enbridge. “So this project is proposed to meet the demand for natural gas.”

Nearly eighty kilometres of the Sunrise Expansion will run through the Regional District of Fraser Fort George, north of Mackenzie to just south of Hixon.

“Some of the benefits that I’m hearing are definitely financial, jobs,” says Jerrilyn Kirk, Area “G” Director for the Regional District of Fraser Fort George. “We’ve seen a huge downturn in forestry in the last two years, and because of that, we have families that are suffering and this could bring much needed jobs into the area.”

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The company maintains it will bring $2.4 million in municipal taxes to the regional district over 35 years as well as thousands of jobs.

“So in the Fraser Fort George Regional District, we’re are projecting over 1300 pipeline workers. And in addition, another 100 workers for the compression work, during peak construction period,” says Low.

Director Kirk says there are, naturally, those who are concerned about environmental impacts of the project, but with so much in addition to this project going on, there is opportunity when its badly needed.

“You have, industry like Vitreo Minerals and Defense Minerals and the Sunrise Expansion project coming into the region saying, ‘Here we are, we’re going to be here for you, and we’re going to look at setting things up,’ and it gives people a little glimmer of hope.”

The federal government has ninety days to consider the project and, if approved, the goal is to begin the work in the second quarter of this year.