Ottawa Still Searching for Ways to Save Trans Mountain Pipeline

Federal cabinet ministers were at a loss for words when they came out of an emergency meeting on how to save Kinder Morgan’s Inc.’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Few public comments were made on how the federal government would force the provincial B.C. government to capitulate and allow the pipeline to be built through the province.

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr insisted the pipeline is in the national interest, adding that the importance of Canada’s role in the global energy market is “bigger than individual projects or provinces.”

Canada is a country of the rule of law, and the federal government will act in the national interest. Access to world markets for Canadian resources is a core national interest. The Trans Mountain expansion will be built. https://t.co/97vvScpvOo

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) April 9, 2018

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley stated her province could take over the project entirely, to which B.C. Premier John Horgan retorted that Alberta only has jurisdiction within its own boundaries.

Kinder Morgan suspended non-essential spending on the $7.4 billion project citing delays by the B.C. government. Ottawa until the end of May 2018 to convince the Company the pipeline will be built.

With files from Canadian Press.