Book Description

Sectoral increases in GDP/GSP and employment are the result of the indirect influence of the AHP and the MVP on sectors other than oil and gas facility construction, natural gas pipeline transportation, and oil and gas production. [...] However, it is uncertain which option for the connection between the MVP and the existing Alberta pipeline system will be chosen: extending the Alberta system to the NWT boundary or constructing the Alberta segment of the MVP down to the Alberta terminus. [...] The Government of the Northwest Territories and TransCanada PipeLines Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding in July 1999 identifying "an alignment of interests and a mutual desire to encourage the timely development of the natural gas reserves of the NWT and the construction of an economic, competitively priced, natural gas transmission infrastructure."11 The Mackenzie Delta producers, who [...] APG represents the interests of aboriginal groups of the NWT in the Mackenzie Gas Project and has a share in the MVP. [...] Summary of the Major Economic Impacts of the MGP Table 3.1 below summarizes the major economic impacts from the MGP for Canada, the Rest of Canada and Alberta.