The Crown company behind the Trans Mountain pipeline enlargement says it could not full the undertaking earlier than December 2024 if a regulator doesn’t approve its request for a route deviation.
Trans Mountain Corp. says the brand new timeframe is a worst-case situation that might add near $86 million in price overruns to the ultimate undertaking price ticket.
Trans Mountain Corp. had hoped to have the pipeline in service in early 2024 however 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 technique.
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 technique.
The Canada Energy Regulator will hear arguments from each Trans Mountain and the First Nation at a listening to in Calgary subsequent week.
