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 laden with crude oil from the new line should be leaving Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby for California and Asia.
“Although we’re shipping oil and the pipeline is
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