Enbridge Gas New Brunswick Enbridge Gas New Brunswick Enbridge Gas New Brunswick is a subsidiary of Enbridge that provides natural gas distribution in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. On December 4, 2018, Enbridge announced an agreement to sell Enbridge Gas New Brunswick to Liberty Utilities (Canada) LP, a wholly owned subsidiary of Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp., for a cash purchase price of CAD $331 million. Based in Fredericton, the company receives gas from the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline system and is regulated under the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board. It currently operates systems in Westmorland County, York County, Sunbury County, Saint
New Brunswick industries in the province such as textile manufacturing, iron mills, and sugar refineries, many of which eventually failed to compete with better capitalized industry in central Canada. In 1937 New Brunswick had the highest infant mortality and illiteracy rates in Canada. At the end of the Great Depression the New Brunswick standard of living was much below the Canadian average. In 1940 the Rowell–Sirois Commission reported that federal government attempts to manage the depression illustrated grave flaws in the Canadian constitution. While the federal government had most of the revenue gathering powers, the provinces had many expenditure responsibilities such as