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Nova Scotia's Stranded Sea of Gas

Seven trillion cubic metres, and a five-hour flight from Dublin. Why has nobody built the pipeline?

TL;DR

Nova Scotia sits on roughly 7 trillion cubic metres of untapped natural gas
The province is closer to Dublin and London than it is to most of western Canada
The barrier isn't geology or shipping distance — it's forty years of policy choices Ottawa and Halifax have stopped naming as choices
A Nova Scotia-Europe energy and trade corridor is still buildable, if anyone decides to pay for it

MDChris Whitfield · Jul 20, 2026

The barrier isn't geology or shipping distance — it's forty years of policy choices Ottawa and Halifax have stopped naming as choices.

Chris

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