National Energy Board sets revised dates for Mackenzie Gas Project technical review

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05/04
For immediate release
22 March 2005

National Energy Board sets revised dates for Mackenzie Gas Project technical review

CALGARY - The National Energy Board has set dates for the remaining steps in its technical review of the Mackenzie Gas Project applications to construct and operate natural gas pipeline facilities in Northern Canada.

As a result of a request from the Dehgah Alliance Society and an Update from the Chairs' Executive Committee, the Board suspended its hearing schedule on 17 February 2005 and asked for comments on a proposed revised schedule. The Chairs' Executive Committee is made up of the Chairs of the Joint Review Panel, the National Energy Board, Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board and the Northwest Territories Land and Water Board.

After reviewing the comments received, the Board has set down revised dates as follows:

Applicants' Responses to Information Requests	31 March 2005
Additional Information Requests to the Applicants	21 April 2005
Responses to Additional Information Requests	5 May 2005
Letters of Comment	19 May 2005
Register for Oral Statement	19 May 2005
Written Evidence of Intervenors	19 May 2005
Information Requests to Intervenors	1 June 2005
Intervenors' Responses to Information Requests	30 June 2005
Reply Evidence	15 July 2005

The Board will announce at a later date the times and locations of its public hearings.

The Board received applications from Imperial Oil Ventures Limited and other applicants for the project which includes a 1 220 kilometre (758 mile) pipeline to transport natural gas to a point of interconnection with the NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. System in northern Alberta, a 480 kilometre (298 mile) pipeline to transport natural gas liquids to a point of interconnection with the Enbridge Pipelines (NW) Inc. Pipeline at Norman Wells, N.W.T., three onshore natural gas fields known as Taglu, Parsons Lake and Niglintgak, a gathering system to transport production from the three fields, and a processing facility in the Inuvik, N.W.T. area where natural gas liquids would be separated from the natural gas for shipping. Other related facilities include compressor stations at Little Chicago, Norman Wells, Blackwater River and Trail River, N.W.T. and a heater station at Trout River, N.W.T.

The NEB is an independent federal agency that regulates several parts of Canada's energy industry. Its purpose is to promote safety and security, environmental protection, and efficient energy infrastructure and markets in the Canadian public interest, within the mandate set by Parliament in the regulation of pipelines, energy development and trade.

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For further information:

Ross Hicks
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Related documents:

• Revised Schedule dated 13 April 2005 [Filing A09501]
• Board letter dated 22 March 2005 to the Dehgah Alliance Society [Filing A09174]
• All Regulatory Documents under: Facilities, Gas, Imperial Oil Resources Ventures Limited (Mackenzie Gas Project) , 2004-10-07 - Application for the Construction and Operation of the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline - GH-1-2004 [Folder 338661]

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