The Leach XPress Pipeline is unique because of the terrain and the sheer amount of work that up to 3,000 employees and contractors will carry out to complete this project for a planned in-service date in November.

After heavy flooding exposed pipelines at river crossings, TransCanada used innovative and creative bioengineering solutions to "re-train" the rivers to protect the pipelines, reduce the company's environmental footprint, and create a new habitat for fish. To date, TransCanada’s engineering solutions have met with success, with the provincial regulator approving the engineering practices as a permanent solution.

Pump stations are built at strategic points along a pipeline to maintain a constant flow of oil at a walking-pace speed. Learn more about them here.