Trans Mountain warns of delay, extra cost without route change to expanded oil pipeline

Canada Energy Partners

01/09/2023 12:43

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Expansion of the
Trans Mountain oil pipeline would be delayed by months and incur
hundreds of millions of dollars of additional cost, unless a
regulator approves a change in its route, the Canadian
government corporation that owns the pipeline told a regulator
in a filing on Thursday.
    Trans Mountain is asking the Canada Energy Regulator to
approve a change from its approved route on a 1.3-kilometre (0.8
mile) section just south of Kamloops, British Columbia, saying
the micro-tunneling construction method necessary on the
existing route is not feasible technically or economically. 

 (Reporting by Rod Nickel in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Editing by Alex
Richardson)
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