Glossary

AVO Audio Visual and Olfactory
BC British Columbia
Board or Board of Directors Enbridge Board of Directors
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) A naturally occurring gas, also a byproduct of burning fossil fuels from fossil carbon deposits, such as oil, gas and coal, of burning biomass and of land use changes and other industrial processes and principal anthropogenic greenhouse gas. It is the reference gas against which other greenhouse gases are measured and therefore has a Global Warming Potential of 1 CO2 equivalent.
Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO2e) A unit of measurement that converts various greenhouse gas emissions on an equivalent basis to carbon dioxide.
CCUS Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration
CCPIB Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board
CNG Compressed Natural Gas
CRA Corporate Risk Assessment
CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
DSM Demand Side Management, which refers to mechanisms such as incentives and education programs designed to modify consumer demand and incent the more efficient use of energy.
EHOB Extra Heavy Oil Barrels
ELT Executive Leadership Team
EV Electric Vehicle
GDS Gas Distribution and Storage
GJ Gigajoule
GPT Green Power and Transmission
GTM Gas Transmission and Midstream
GW Gigawatts
IEA International Energy Agency
LNG Liquefied Natural Gas
LP Liquids Pipelines
MW Megawatts
NGL Natural Gas Liquids
NPS New Policies Scenario
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Paris Agreement An agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, dealing with GHG emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance, signed in 2016.
PADD Petroleum Administration for Defense District
PPA Power Purchase Agreement
P2G Power to Gas
RNG Renewable Natural Gas
Scope 1 Accounts for direct GHG emissions which occur from sources that are owned or controlled by the Company.
Scope 2 Accounts for GHG emissions from the generation of purchased electricity consumed by the Company.
Scope 3 Accounts for other indirect GHG emissions from sources that are not owned or controlled by the Company.
SDG Sustainable Development Goals
SDS Sustainable Development Scenario
Sustainability Report Annual Enbridge Sustainability Report
TCFD Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
Tight Oil Light crude oil contained in petroleumbearing formations of low permeability, often shale or tight sandstone.
USGC United States Gulf Coast
WCSB Western Canadian Sedimentary basin
WEO IEA's World Energy Outlook
WTI West Texas Intermediate