The story behind energy east

The Energy East pipeline was a proposed by TransCanada Corporation to transport from Western Canada to eastern Canadian refineries including the Iriving Refinery in St. John, New Brunswick. 

The westernmost terminal would have been at Hardisty, Alberta, and a major terminal was planned for Moosomin, Saskatchewan, where a 1,050,000 barrel tank farm was planned, along with a feeder pipeline from Cromer, Manitoba, making the Moosomin Compressor Station an on-ramp to for Saskatchewan and Manitoba crude to Energy East.

Energy East would have transported the Western Canadian oil to refineries and port terminals in New Brunswick and possibly Quebec.  The plan was to convert about 3,000 kilometres of natural gas pipeline, which currently carries natural gas from Alberta to the Ontario-Quebec border, to carry oil. New pipeline, pump stations, and tank facilities would also be constructed. The $12 billion pipeline would have been the longest in North America when complete.

The entire length would be 4,600 kilometres with approximately 70 percent being existing pipeline that would be converted from carrying natural gas. The project would have a capacity of 1.1 million barrels of crude oil per day.

Irving Oil announced plans to build a new $300-million terminal at its Canaport facility in Saint John to export the oil delivered from the pipeline.

The project was announced publicly on August 1, 2013 and a proposal was submitted to the National Energy Board for review. TransCanada cancelled the project on October 5, 2017 after the federal government indicated changes would be made to the review process, requiring the National Energy Board to take into account all upstream and downstream emissions of any hydrocarbons transported through a proposed pipeline in its deliberations.