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Canada's population was booming during the 1950s, and energy shortages were becoming problematic. [1] Canadian company TransCanada PipeLines Limited was incorporated in 1951 to undertake the construction of a natural gas pipeline across Canada. The financing of the project was split 50–50 between American and Canadian interests.
As the natural gas industry grew with pipeline construction in the 1950s, many companies - Imperial, British American (B/A; later Gulf Canada) and Shell, for example - constructed plants in Alberta to process newly discovered natural gas so it could be made pipeline-ready.
Most of the gas that travelled those pipelines needed processing to meet the specifications of pipeline companies. Consequently, the late 1950s and early 1960s saw a boom in gas plant construction. In 1957, a new gas plant at Taylor, near Fort St. John, British Columbia, began supplying Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd.
Canada became a natural gas-producing giant in the late 1950s and is second, after Russia, in exports; the country also is home to the world's largest natural gas liquids extraction facilities. The industry started constructing its vast pipeline networks in the 1950s, thus beginning to develop domestic and international markets in a big way.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline System, or simply the Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMPL), is a multiple product pipeline system that carries crude and refined products from Edmonton, Alberta, to the coast of British Columbia, Canada. [1] [2] The corporation was created in 1951, construction began in 1952, and operations commenced in 1953.
The Pipeline Debate (May 8 – June 6, 1956) was a political event in the history of the Parliament of Canada. The debate was on the finances of the TransCanada pipeline , proper parliamentary procedure, and American economic influence on Canada .
Enbridge Line 5 is a 645-mile oil pipeline owned by the Canadian multinational corporation Enbridge.Constructed in 1953, the pipeline conveys crude oil from western Canada to eastern Canada via the Great Lakes states.
TC Energy was known as TransCanada before rebranding in 2019. The company was incorporated in 1951 by a Special Act of Parliament as Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Limited. [10] In 1954 N. Eldon Tanner, president of Merrill Petroleums and former Alberta legislator, became president of the company. [11]