Trans Mountain pipeline

The Trans Mountain Pipeline System, or simply the Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMPL), is a multiple product <a href="/facts/Pipeline_transport/gEmKcFhD">pipeline</a> system which carries <a href="/facts/Petroleum/IQV0bHVd">crude</a> and refined <a href="/facts/Petroleum_product/dngHXNJX">products</a> from <a href="/facts/Edmonton/ePFNJlBN">Edmonton</a>, Alberta, to the <a href="/facts/British_Columbia_Coast/ncHW0p2n">coast of British Columbia</a>, Canada.
The corporation was created in 1951, construction began in 1952, and operations commenced in 1953. It is the only pipeline to run between these two areas. The construction of a second pipeline between <a href="/facts/Hinton%2c_Alberta/lPUkluuu">Hinton, Alberta</a>, and Hargreaves, British Columbia, running adjacent to the existing line, was completed in 2008. In 2013, a project to loop the existing Trans Mountain pipeline—the Trans Mountain Expansion Project—was proposed to the Canadian <a href="/facts/National_Energy_Board/4eASmzJ0">National Energy Board</a>. The project was 98% complete, as of 23 January 2024, and began operations on 1 May 2024. The expansion, which runs roughly parallel to the existing pipeline, increased capacity from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels per day (48,000–141,000 m3/d), at a cost of C$53 billion.
The Trans Mountain Expansion Project was controversial due to its potential environmental impact. It faced legal challenges, as well as challenges from environmentalists and <a href="/facts/First_Nations_in_Canada/ccqhx22M">First Nations</a> groups on the grounds of inadequate consultation of the pipeline route passing through <a href="/facts/Aboriginal_title/2Iz0nTg1">unceded indigenous land</a>. A Supreme Court decision on July 2, 2020, that rejected the appeals made by First Nations and environmental groups, "[brought] an end to the years-long legal challenge".
On August 31, 2018, the <a href="/facts/Government_of_Canada/EpXkkVFc">Government of Canada</a> purchased the pipeline for $4.7 billion from <a href="/facts/Kinder_Morgan/uuBvSzdw">Kinder Morgan</a> through the creation of the Trans Mountain Corporation (TMC), in order to "keep the project alive". TMC is a <a href="/facts/Crown_corporations_of_Canada/c4dxgHUQ">Crown corporation</a>, a subsidiary of the <a href="/facts/Canada_Development_Investment_Corporation/59YPvsTQ">Canada Development Investment Corporation</a> (CDEV). Until the purchase by CDEV, the Trans Mountain Pipeline was owned by the <a href="/facts/Houston/1v8AwQUN">Houston</a>–based pipeline operator's Canadian division.

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Trans Mountain pipeline