The Canadian government agreed in May to buy the pipeline and project from Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd for CAN$4.5 billion (US$3.5 billion), in an effort to ensure its expansion went ahead. It is currently scheduled to be in service by December 2020.
“Yes, there’s a delay because of the construction was stopped for a couple of months, but this is a project that is moving forward and will continue to move forward until it’s done,” Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi told reporters outside a Cabinet meeting in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Canada’s energy regulator gave the go-ahead last week for construction of a large portion of the expansion. Preliminary work on the route has started but pipeline crews are not expected until the spring of 2019. (US$1 = CAN$1.3055).
