Canada regulator issues order to Trans Mountain over community impact monitoring (updated)

Canada Energy Partners

11/07/2023 19:46

(Updates with comment from Trans Mountain)
       July 11 (Reuters) - The Canada Energy Regulator issued
an "Inspection Office Order" to Trans Mountain for not adhering
to an approved plan to monitor the impact of the Trans Mountain
Expansion Project on local communities during construction.
    A review found that Trans Mountain was not able to
incorporate "qualitative data related to workers and local
business accommodations in the North Thompson Region," as
approved in its Socio-Economic Effects Monitoring Plan, the CER
said on its website on Monday.
    The Trans Mountain expansion (TMX) project will nearly
triple the flow of crude from Alberta to Canada's Pacific Coast
to 890,000 barrels per day (bpd). The original pipeline ships
around 300,000 bpd of mainly light crude to the U.S. West Coast.
    The troubled C$30.9 billion ($23.5 billion) project, bought
by the Canadian government in 2018 to ensure that it was
completed, is nearing completion more than a decade after it was
first proposed as an expanded gateway to Asia.
        Trans Mountain in an email response said it will be
reaching out to community members, accommodation providers and
local authorities to gather information to respond to the order.
  

    



 (Reporting by Daksh Grover; Additional reporting by Ashitha
Shivaprasad in Bengaluru; Editing by Ed Osmond and Mark Porter)
 ((Daksh.grover@thomsonreuters.com))