Enbridge Inc.
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2005 Corporate Social Responsibility Report
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Businesses at a Glance

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Enbridge is a large, complex organization consisting of many wholly and partially owned entities and business units. For this report, we have segmented our businesses as outlined below. A more detailed description of the Enbridge group of companies is listed at the back of this publication.

Liquids Pipelines includes the world's longest crude oil and products pipeline system - Enbridge Pipelines in Canada and the Lakehead Pipeline in the United States. This mainline system has been supplying Western Canadian crude oil to Central Canada and the U.S. Midwest for more than 55 years. In addition to our mainline, our U.S. affiliate operates crude oil pipelines in North Dakota and pipelines in our U.S. Mid-Continent system, which includes one of the largest crude oil terminals in North America at Cushing, Oklahoma. The Liquids Pipelines business delivers more than 2 million barrels of liquids daily and transports 60% of the crude oil production from Western Canada. It has interests in 21,000 kilometres (13,000 miles) of liquids pipelines in North America. Liquids Pipelines' operations are headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta.

Gas Pipelines consists of the company's interests in the Alliance and Vector pipelines, which went into service in December 2000. These pipelines transport gas from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin to Ontario and the U.S. Midwest, and are well positioned to transport future gas volumes from the North. The company's newly acquired Enbridge Offshore Pipelines transports more than half of the deepwater gas produced offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, a key region for continental supply growth. This business unit's head office is in Houston.

U.S. Natural Gas Business consists of natural gas transmission and gathering pipelines and processing and treating plants in the Mid-Continent and Gulf Coast areas of the United States. The business gathers and transports about 2.03 billion cubic feet of natural gas each day and operates 14,800 kilometres (9,200 miles) of gas gathering and transmission pipelines.

Enbridge Gas Distribution is Canada's largest natural gas company, and delivers gas to 1.7 million customers in Ontario. Affiliated companies also deliver natural gas to customers in Quebec, New Brunswick and parts of New York State. One of the lowest cost gas distribution operators in North America, Enbridge Gas Distribution distributes 430 billion cubic feet of natural gas each year. This business unit is based in Toronto, where it has served customers for more than 155 years.

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