The Alton gas storage project is a proposed underground salt cavern storage facility near Alton, Nova Scotia. Fort Chicago owns 50 percent of this project. Alton has exceptional underground geological properties and is ideally located with access to existing natural gas supplies and pipeline infrastructure and within close proximity to highly liquid seasonal energy markets.
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Storage caverns are formed by dissolving and extracting salt from a large underground deposit, leaving an empty space in the formation. Essentially impermeable, salt caverns are ideal for storing high-pressure products ranging from natural gas to natural gas liquids, and even compressed air.
Eventually consisting of several caverns brined from a large, structurally stable salt formation, the initial focus of the Alton project is to have the capacity to store four to six billion cubic feet of natural gas which will serve customers from Atlantic Canada through to the northeastern United States
The Alton gas storage project has received all primary environmental approvals required to proceed with the development of the salt cavern storage facility. Construction will proceed once commercial arrangements are put in place with storage customers.
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