Commodities
Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Faces Nine-Month Delay Over Route Dispute
- Tunneling project may push finish to late 2024, builder says
- Local indigenous group is opposing new, more intrusive route
Pieces of the Trans Mountain Pipeline in Hope, British Columbia.
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The expansion of a Canadian government-owned oil pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific Coast could be delayed by nine months if regulators don’t approve a route alteration, the project’s builder said in a regulatory filing.
The expanded Trans Mountain might not be completed before December 2024 in a “worst-case” scenario where regulators force the company to stick with a plan to tunnel under land that’s important to a local indigenous community, according to a filing with the Canada Energy Regulator. The earliest the tunneling could be completed is by April, the company said.