For Sale: Stalled Pipeline Project, Protesters Included

  • Canada’s government sees alternate Trans Mountain investors
  • Kinder Morgan drives hard bargain as May 31 deadline nears

A ship receives its load of oil from the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Expansion Project's Westeridge loading dock in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Photographer: Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP

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Justin Trudeau’s pipeline nightmare may be only getting started.

As Kinder Morgan Inc. drives a hard bargain in Canada’s attempt to save the Houston-based company’s embattled Trans Mountain project, the prime minister could end up fighting for an asset that hardly anybody wants. Pipeline giant Enbridge Inc., for one, signaled it doesn’t.