Indigenous Group Seeks Full Ownership of Trans Mountain Pipeline

Project Reconciliation seeks 75% initially and 100% eventually
Robert Morin replaces Delbert Wapass as chairman of group

Pieces of the Trans Mountain Pipeline project sit in a storage lot outside of Hope, Canada, on June 6. — Pieces of the Trans Mountain Pipeline project sit in a storage lot outside of Hope, Canada, on June 6.
Photographer: Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images

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By Robert Tuttle

June 8, 2021 at 5:09 PM UTC

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Project Reconciliation, a Canadian indigenous group seeking a stake in the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, is now aiming for a path to full ownership, the group’s new chairman said.

“We are hopeful that we can get our position across,” Robert Morin, the group’s new chairman, said in a phone interview. The group has said it has funding lined up for the purchase, without revealing any lender.