In 2016, our members invested $31.1 million in community initiatives across Canada, including $3 million in Indigenous communities.

*Source: Canada’s energy pipelines are an overlooked source of economic prosperity. In 2013, for the first time ever, CEPA commissioned a study to detail the economic impacts of Canada’s transmission pipeline industry. The 2013 study, The Economic Impacts from Operations of Canada’s Energy Pipelines (Angevine Economic Consulting Ltd.) was updated in 2015 and will be updated again in the spring of 2018.

In 2016, CEPA members spent $4.7 billion purchasing goods and services along pipeline routes across Canada supporting local communities.

*Source: The Economic Impacts from Operations of Canada’s Pipelines, Angevine Economic Consulting Ltd., 2015

In 2016, our members conducted in-line inspection runs on 39,059 kilometres of pipelines in Canada using highly sophisticated tools called ‘smart pigs’ that examine a pipeline from the inside to identify features such as metal loss, dents and cracks that may require further investigation.

In 2016, CEPA member companies conducted 2,696 integrity digs to examine pipelines for defects and to make repairs – that’s a total of 25,577 integrity digs since 2007.