The Ministry of Environment of British Columbia (Canada) has issued an Environmental Assessment (EA) Certificate for the British Columbia portion of the Trans Mountain pipeline project, considering that project developer Kinder Morgan had met the five conditions it had laid out in 2012. In 2016, the province government had opposed the project over these conditions and oil spill response capacities and the NEB imposed 157 conditions on the project. The new environmental certificate includes 37 additional conditions.
The C$6.8bn (US$5.1bn) expansion project aims at increasing the transportation capacity from approximately 300,000 bbl/d to 890,000 bbl/d by twinning the existing light crude oil and refined product pipeline. It would stretch from Edmonton, Alberta, to Burnaby, British Columbia, over 1,150 km. The project received the approval of the Canadian government in November 2016.
Under the revenue sharing agreement, Kinder Morgan will pay a minimum C$25m/year over a 20-year period (C$500m, or US$380m); payment could double to C$50m/year if shipments exceed contract volumes.