// COMPANY DOSSIER
Liberty Utilities (Gas New Brunswick) LP
Regulated natural gas distribution utility holding the franchise to distribute gas in New Brunswick. It operates and maintains the province's gas distribution pipeline network and sells Standard Offer natural gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers.
📍 Fredericton, New Brunswick, CanadaEst. 2019✓ 100% first-party verified
// CLIPS FROM Liberty Utilities (Gas New Brunswick) LP
“just look at the queen's mark building just uh behind us here”
“i think we know the energy system that we rely on today is going to look very different in the future”
“so when we're installing like up in cumberland county uh the ground is very conducive to trenchless technology”
“so what we do is uh contractor that's building the subdivision will install the pipes”
“with the natural gas infrastructure it's hard to be everywhere uh that our customers want us to be”
“so in western canada ontario typically you know a lot of the project manager site managers will utilize the natural gas resource”
“yeah i uh it's pretty crazy the amount of construction uh in town”
“the other thing that's interesting here of course in nova scotia we have an abundance of wind resources”
“any mechanical contractor can i'm not sure just a qualifier doesn't need to be a preferred contractor”
// LESSONS FROM Liberty Utilities (Gas New Brunswick) LP
Engage the natural gas utility at the mechanical design stage — not at shovel-drop — to keep gas as a live option and simplify specification.
Fixed pipeline supply contracts are the tool Heritage Gas uses to dampen commodity price volatility for customers; operators choosing energy sources should ask suppliers how they manage that exposure.
Natural gas construction heating (curing slabs, drywall, frost fighting) is standard in western Canada but underused in Nova Scotia — it is available here once street gas exists near the site.
The Heritage Gas scope ends at the meter under CSA Z662; everything inside the building is CSA B149 and a different qualified contractor — clarifying this boundary at tender avoids scope gaps.
Utilities are last in the ground in new subdivisions because they are shallowest; gas crews need only 10-15m service stubs once foundations are poured — coordinate timing accordingly.
Heritage Gas's barcode-tracking of every in-ground fitting (100% as of this episode) is a model for asset-lifecycle management; construction operators should ask utilities what tracking they keep on buried infrastructure.
// SELECTED PROJECTS
Acquisition of Enbridge Gas New Brunswick (rebrand to Liberty Utilities)
CompletedAcquirer / successor operator (via parent Liberty Utilities (Canada) LP, a subsidiary of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp.) · CAD $331 million
Enbridge sold Enbridge Gas New Brunswick Limited Partnership and its general partner Enbridge Gas New Brunswick Inc. to Liberty Utilities (Canada) LP; transaction closed October 1, 2019. The business was subsequently rebranded Liberty Utilities (Gas New Brunswick) LP.
New Brunswick natural gas distribution network
In progressOwner / franchise operator
Ongoing operated network: over 852 km of pipeline serving 14 communities — Dieppe, Dorchester, Fredericton, Hanwell, Havelock, Moncton, Lincoln, Oromocto, Riverview, Sackville, Sitansisk (St. Mary's First Nation), Saint John, St. George, St. Stephen. Status marked in_progress as a continuously operated/extended system rather than a one-time completed build.
// KEY PEOPLE
GV
Gilles Volpé
Vice President & General Manager, Liberty Utilities New Brunswick (also titled President, NB Gas)
profile ▸// NOTABLE
Serves over 12,400 natural gas distribution customers across 14 communities in southern New Brunswick (Fredericton, Moncton and Saint John regions).
SOURCE ▸Holds the franchise for the distribution of gas in the Province of New Brunswick and is the regulated distributor before the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board (NBEUB), filing general rate applications (e.g. NBEUB Matter 551, 2024 distribution rates effective Sept 1, 2024).
SOURCE ▸NBEUB-approved distribution rate adjustments effective January 1, 2025 decreased the total cost of natural gas for all customer classes versus 2023 rates (e.g. ~6.52% residential decrease).
SOURCE ▸Signed a Memorandum of Understanding (Aug 29, 2023) with Nu:ionic Technologies for a 2.4 tonnes-per-day Microwave Catalytic Reformer hydrogen production system in New Brunswick, intended to pilot blending hydrogen into its natural gas distribution network.
SOURCE ▸Parent company is Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (TSX/NYSE: AQN); Liberty Utilities is AQN's regulated utility business.
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