Despite construction and market disruptions caused by COVID-19 as well as continuing opposition, the Canadian government-owned Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project began work this month on the $9.5-billion project's key British Columbia link.
Crews began work on a 7-kilometer first stretch around the city of Kamloops, B.C., of what will be 185 km of parallel pipeline built to the port of Burnaby, B.C., on the Pacific coast, continuing the expansion in its Alberta section.