CER issues Recommendation Report for the Pouce Coupé Taylor to Gordondale Pipeline Project

CALGARY, AB, Nov. 7, 2025/ CNW/ – The Commission of the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) has actually launched its Suggestion Report concerning the Pouce Coupé Pipeline Line Ltd. Taylor to Gordondale Pipeline Task. The Commission has actually suggested that a certificate be provided for the job topic to conditions, highlighting its positioning with the general public interest and highlighting a strong dedication to openness, fairness, and significant engagement with Native Peoples and stakeholders. The suggested pipeline is planned to carry gas liquids from the Montney area in northeastern British Columbia to refineries, plants, and storage centers in Alberta

The Commission discovered that the job would be essential and financially practical and be developed and run securely in positioning with regulative and security requirements. The Commission suggests a certificate be provided based on 40 conditions, which deal with all elements of the job from building and construction and security to Native participation and ecological tracking.

Throughout the hearing procedure, the Commission spoke with 35 Native neighborhoods who either got involved straight in the hearing or through the CER’s Crown Assessment Organizer. The Commission discovered the assessment procedure to be appropriate. Their input played an important function in notifying the Commission’s suggestion and making sure that Native point of views were thought about throughout the decision-making procedure.

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• The CER controls energy facilities in such a way that avoids damage and intends to make sure the safe, trusted, competitive, and ecologically sustainable shipment of energy to Canada and the world.
• The Commission is accountable for suggestions and adjudicative choices, running as a quasi-judicial body that is arm’s length from other parts of the CER governance structure and the federal government.
• The Commission has actually made its suggestion ahead of the legislated time frame of December 1, 2025 developed for this job. The hearing procedure took almost 14 months from when the application was figured out to be total to when the suggestion report was provided.
• In addition to regulative requirements that use to all CER-regulated business, there are project-specific conditions suggested to minimize dangers, avoid damage, promote security, safeguard the environment, and accommodate influence on the rights of Native Peoples.
• The Commission thought about the job’s contribution to existing cumulative results and discovered that, with the suggested mitigation and lodging procedures, Native Peoples would be allowed to continue to work out and practice their rights
• Other cumulative results, such as results on plant life, wetlands, wildlife, and wildlife environment are likewise attended to through the conditions detailed in the suggestion report. These conditions are created to make sure that possible effects are recognized and efficiently handled throughout the job.
• Pouce Coupé used to construct a pipeline that would be around 89 kilometres long and to set up a brand-new pump station within its existing Taylor Tank Farm footprint.
• The job would run parallel to existing and authorized rights-of-way for practically 94 percent of its length.
• The job remains in Treaty 8 area and would cross the standard lands of Very first Countries and Métis neighborhoods.

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SOURCE Canada Energy Regulator