In what is likely to be one of the landmark decisions of his first term in office, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the conditional approval of one oil pipeline megaproject to B.C. — and put the brakes on the other.
Kinder Morgan has won cabinet approval for its $6.8 billion plan to triple the capacity of its northern Alberta-to-Burnaby pipeline system to 895,000 barrels a day.
The company, if it can overcome court challenges and threatened civil disobedience, says it will start construction in September of 2017 and have the new line up and running by December of 2019.
The decision is expected to quickly evolve into a political football in the upcoming B.C. election next spring.
Vancouver Sun – November 29, 2016.
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