Trans Mountain work stoppage continues, as CPC’s McLean says project ‘even more important’ post-U.S. axing of Keystone XL

But NDP MP Richard Cannings says with global demand for oil trending down—a trend set to accelerate if needed climate policies are pursued—it ‘calls into question the whole viability’ of the multibillion-dollar project.

The Westridge Marine Terminal, the B.C. terminus for the Trans Mountain pipeline, is pictured in July 2019. Trans Mountain says work on the terminal's expansion is now 38 per cent complete.Photograph courtesy of WikimediaCommons/Codex

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

January 27, 2021

Weeks after work was set to resume, construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion remains halted, though the company hasn’t amended its December 2022 estimated readiness, and after U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to axe the Keystone XL pipeline, Conservative MP Greg McLean says the p...

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