Northern Pipeline Agency’s 2024-25 Departmental Plan at a glance

A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.

• Purpose, raison d’être, mandate, role, and operating context
• Minister’s mandate letter

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Key priorities

• remain prepared to ramp up quickly the Agency and its activities in response to the Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline (AHGP) project
• respond to any incoming requests from the AHGP project proponent, Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd. (Foothills), and any inquiries from other government agencies, Indigenous peoples and the public

Refocusing Government Spending

In Budget 2023, the government committed to reducing spending by $14.1 billion over the next five years, starting in 2023–24, and by $4.1 billion annually after that. While not officially part of this spending reduction exercise, the Agency will respect the spirit of this exercise by doing the following:

• Assess the value for cost related to services provided by other government departments
• Assess the value for cost related to travel
• Assess the value for cost related to attending conferences

The figures in this departmental plan reflect these reductions.

Highlights

A Departmental Results Framework consists of an organization’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.

Oversee and regulate the planning and construction of the Canadian portion of the Alaska Highway Natural Gas Pipeline Project.

Departmental results:

The Agency will maintain the appropriate minimum level of preparation activities for a regulatory framework, so as to remain prepared to ramp up quickly to effectively regulate and facilitate the planning and construction of the pipeline should the project proceed.

Planned spending: $569,670

Planned human resources: 4 Full Time Equivalents

In February 2013, Foothills informed the Agency that no further work is planned on the AHGP project at this time and that it will await further commercial interest before recommencing its efforts. For 2024-25, the Agency remains prepared to ramp up activities in response to a potential need to carry out work expected on the AHGP project.

More information about the single core responsibility of Oversee and regulate the planning and construction of the Canadian portion of the Alaska Highway Natural Gas Pipeline Project can be found in the full departmental plan.