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The Trans Mountain expansion is finally pumping oil
After a decade of work, oil is flowing through the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. People who live along the pipeline are looking to the future.
Photo: Radio-Canada
After a decade of work, oil is flowing through the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. People who live along the pipeline are looking to the future.
Buried underground, it is nearly invisible. The only real giveaways are the white and yellow signs dotting the landscape along the Yellowhead Highway west of Edmonton. Markers that someone could follow all the way to the Pacific Ocean, if they were determined enough.
The Trans Mountain pipeline runs about 1,000 kilometres from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C. Along the way, it passes through communities big and small and crosses the territories of dozens of First Nations.
When the valves open and the oil starts flowing Wednesday, the newly twinned Trans Mountain pipeline will carry nearly 900,000 barrels of bitumen from producers in Alberta to tanker ships on the coast each and every day.
