Switching on the lights is easy, right? Reach out and flick the switch. Simple as that. But how does the electricity needed to turn that light on reach your home in the first place? As you may have guessed, that isn't quite as simple.

Stretching 305 miles (491 km) from Oregon across California and into Nevada, the Tuscarora pipeline delivers natural gas from the Western Canada Sedimentary Supply, the Rocky Mountains and US basins to communities in California and Nevada.

Keystone System — NEB Tariff No. 23

“From the time you get up in the morning until you go to bed at night, it’s difficult to find a moment when you haven’t used energy transported by a pipeline.” – Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA)

TransCanada Corporation announced that its Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project (PRGT) has signed a project agreement (PA) with Lax Kw’alaams Band.