Kinder Morgan delivers pipe after announced suspension of non-essential spending
Monday, April 16, 2018
National Post
Handout photo of a pipe delivery. On Thursday, April 12, pipe was delivered to a staging area in New Westminster for Kinder Morgan's $7.4-billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion. The delivery happened four days after Kinder Morgan said it was suspending all non-essential spending on the project and delivered an ultimatum it needs certainty by May 31 it can build the project or it will walk away.Wilderness Committee / PNG
Even as Kinder Morgan announced it had suspended all non-essential spending on the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion, pipe for the project was delivered to a staging area last week in New Westminster.
Kinder Morgan’s suspension announcement a week ago Sunday was part of an ultimatum in which the Houston, Texas-based company said it needed certainty by May 31 that the project can be built or it will walk away.
The environmental group Wilderness Committee snapped photos of the pipe delivery last Thursday, just four days after the ultimatum. They show two transport trucks delivering loads of pipe to the staging site next to the Fraser River east of Brunette Avenue in New Westminster. Another photo shows pipe stacked along a fence at the site.
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