CANADA'S energy regulatory has approved a 122-million US dollars expansion of the pipeline that transports natural gas to the US Northeast from Nova Scotia, although it has suspended the go-ahead date because the new gas volumes are still uncertain. Maritimes Northeast Pipeline applied to the National Energy Board for a 400-MMcf/d expansion after striking a deal with EnCana Corp to transport gas from its proposed Deep Panuke development off the Nova Scotia coast. However, the US company, one of the country's leading independent oil explorers and producers, said recently that it no longer believed the project will start up by the 2005 target date, blaming regulatory delays.
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