Alton natural gas storage facility construction to restart this summer – CBC

Apr 26, 2016

AltaGas Ltd. hopes it could start storing gas by 2018 or 2019

AltaGas Ltd. will restart construction of its Alton natural gas storage facility this summer after the project was put on hold in 2014 as the province delayed issuing permits and then dealt with several appeals of the industrial approval.

The Calgary-headquartered company wants to store natural gas in underground salt caverns near Stewiacke, N.S.

“There’s more work that needs to be done on the dyke, we will pause that until the summer,” said Jess Nieukerk, the director of finance and communications with AltaGas.

“Then you would start brining activities, those activities could take between two to three years for the cavern formation.”

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