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LONG TERM INVESTMENTS (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS |
Schedule of long term investments |
|  | Ownership |  |  |  |  |  |
December 31, |  | Interest |  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
(millions of Canadian dollars) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Equity Investments |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Joint Ventures |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Liquids Pipelines |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Chicap Pipeline |  | 43.8% |  | 27 |  |  | 27 |
Mustang Pipeline |  | 30.0% |  | 21 |  |  | 27 |
Seaway Pipeline |  | 50.0% |  | 1,385 |  |  | 1,186 |
Gas Pipelines, Processing and Energy Services |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Offshore - various joint ventures |  | 22.0%-74.3% |  | 391 |  |  | 420 |
Vector |  | 60.0% |  | 142 |  |  | 160 |
Alliance Pipeline US |  | 50.0% |  | 282 |  |  | 293 |
Aux Sable 1 |  | 42.7%-50.0% |  | 266 |  |  | 217 |
Other |  | 33.3%-70.0% |  | 10 |  |  | 21 |
Sponsored Investments |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Alliance Pipeline Canada |  | 50.0% |  | 277 |  |  | 296 |
Texas Express Pipeline |  | 35.0% |  | 183 |  |  | 11 |
Other |  | 50.0% |  | 35 |  |  | 47 |
Other Equity Investments |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Corporate |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Noverco Common Shares |  | 38.9% |  | - |  |  | - |
Other |  | 8.9%-41.0% |  | 55 |  |  | 34 |
Other Long-Term Investments |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Corporate |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Noverco Preferred Shares |  |  |  | 246 |  |  | 285 |
Other |  |  |  | 66 |  |  | 57 |
|  |  |  | 3,386 |  |  | 3,081 |
1 In July 2011, the Company, through its affiliate Aux Sable, acquired a 42.7% interest in the Palermo Conditioning Plant and the Prairie Rose Pipeline for $76 million.
Summary of income statement of the entity's interest in unconsolidated equity investments of joint ventures |
Year ended December 31, |  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |  | 2010 |
(millions of Canadian dollars) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues |  | 921 |  |  | 804 |  | 771 |
Commodity costs |  | (236 | ) |  | (138 | ) | (92 | )
Operating and administrative expense |  | (244 | ) |  | (200 | ) | (203 | )
Depreciation and amortization |  | (159 | ) |  | (158 | ) | (158 | )
Other expense |  | 4 |  |  | (3 | ) | (1 | )
Interest expense |  | (81 | ) |  | (87 | ) | (96 | )
Earnings before income taxes |  | 205 |  |  | 218 |  | 221
Summary of balance sheet of the entity's interest in unconsolidated equity investments of joint ventures |
| 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
(millions of Canadian dollars) |  |  |  |  |  |
Current assets |  | 299 |  |  | 231 |
Property, plant and equipment, net |  | 3,192 |  |  | 2,864 |
Deferred amounts and other assets |  | 204 |  |  | 273 |
Intangible assets |  | 74 |  |  | 87 |
Goodwill |  | 639 |  |  | 651 |
Current liabilities |  | (333 | ) |  | (230 | )
Long-term debt |  | (895 | ) |  | (926 | )
Other long-term liabilities |  | (161 | ) |  | (245 | )
Net assets |  | 3,019 |  |  | 2,705 |

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