Trans Mountain pipeline project runs into fresh construction-related hurdle

The Trans Mountain oil pipeline enlargement mission has run into one other construction-related hurdle that might delay its completion.

The crown company that owns the pipeline has filed for regulatory approval to switch the route of one of many remaining stretches of pipe but to be accomplished.

In its regulatory submitting, Trans Mountain Corp. mentioned it has run into engineering difficulties associated to the drilling of a tunnel in B.C.

It needs to change the route barely for a 1.3-kilometre stretch of pipe, in addition to the development methodology.

But it faces opposition from the Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation, whose conventional territory the pipeline crosses and who had agreed to the initially proposed route and development methodology.

In its submitting, Trans Mountain Corp. says it wants the regulator to decide as quickly as doable to keep away from development delays that might lead to considerably elevated development prices for the mission.