The government of British Columbia (Canada) has opposed Kinder Morgan's plans to expand the Trans Mountain crude oil pipeline, which stretches from Edmonton, Alberta, and Burnaby, British Columbia, considering that Kinder Morgan had not provided an adequate plan to prevent or respond to an oil spill and failed to meet any of the five conditions it had laid out in 2012. The C$6.8bn (US$4.8bn) 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.
In July 2014, the National Energy Board (NEB), Canada's energy regulator, announced that it would delay its final decision on the project by seven months due to changes in the project's route, after Trans Mountain Pipeline asked to modify a 4 km section (tunnelling through Burnaby Mountain). The change postponed the NEB's decision from 2 July 2015 to 25 January 2016. The project is awaiting approval from the NEB, which expects to make a recommendation to the federal government by May 2016.