by Carlito Pablo on January 14th, 2021 at 3:01 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
Metro Vancouver has allowed the use of a regional park for the expansion of a federal Canadian government-owned oil pipeline.
Pipeline company Trans Mountain Corporation will use a portion of the Colony Farm Regional Park in Coquitlam as a temporary work site.
The work at the western edge of the park involves staging and assembling of pipe to be pulled under Fraser River.
Trans Mountain Corporation was purchased by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for $4.5 billion from Texas-based Kinder Morgan in 2018.
The company is working to twin its 1,150-kilometre pipeline from the oil fields of Alberta to Burnaby in B.C.