Some good news for those felling the pinch of the current economic status.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the approval for two pipeline projects worth over $14 billion in Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain & Enbridge's Line Three pipelines.

Alberta's Minister of Environment shannon Phillips says that the announcement is an early Christmas present for Alberta as a whole.

"Albertans will be able to get back to work," she says. "It will mean that our energy industry will be able to pick itself back up  after several months of very low oil prices and we know that has has an effect, a really severe effect on many families."

The Trans Mountain pipeline will go from Edmonton down to Burnaby, B.C. while the Line Three will go from Edmonton to Superior, Wisconsin.

Early numbers for the amount of jobs that Kinder Morgan will create will help many back to work says Phillips.

"That pipeline project and it's upstream effects is projected by the company to result in 15,000 jobs. what we know is even in the short term and we've seen a bounce back in the markets this morning we knows what this provides is investment certainty for our energy companies."

With Tuesday's news Phillips says these two projects will give light to an energy sector that had been suffering for quite sometime and put Alberta's energy sector back in many business connversation.

"At the forefront in my mind is making sure that Albertans can make a decent living either in the energy industry or in other parts of the economy and that we're putting food on the table in all aspects of the economy."

One pipeline that was nixed by the Federal Liberals is the Northern Gateway Pipeline which would move oil from Bruderheim, Alta to Kitimat B.C.

Shovels could be in the ground for the pipelines by next September.

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