Pembina Forms Indigenous Alliance in Battle for Canada Pipeline
- Partnership seeks to buy controversial Trans Mountain Pipeline
- Bid presents challenge to rival group seeking full ownership
An oil tank near the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion site in Burnaby, British Columbia.
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The battle for a controversial Canadian oil pipeline is heating up, with Pembina Pipeline Corp. forming a partnership with an indigenous group to buy the key Trans Mountain pipeline in a challenge to another native group seeking full ownership.
Canada’s third-largest pipeline company said in an emailed statement it has formed Chinook Pathways, an “equal” partnership with Western Indigenous Pipeline Group to pursue ownership of the government-owned Trans Mountain once an expansion of the system is completed.