Trans Mountain pipeline launches to little fanfare

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After years of challenges and delays, the controversial Trans Mountain expansion project has started carrying Alberta crude to B.C. Last week, as gasoline prices spiked in Vancouver to reach $2.20 per litre—48 cents above the national average—crude oil from Alberta began filling the new secondary Trans Mountain pipeline and making its way out west, to Burnaby. The 1,150-kilometre, government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is complete and officially in commercial operation. It was given the official green light by the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER) on April 30 with a “leave to open.” By the end of this month, oil tankers...