Kinder Morgan Energy Partners’ Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion has to contend with a coalition of environmental, civic and aboriginal communities intent on using the courts to block the proposed C$5.4 billion project.
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An underground pipeline marker near the Kinder Morgan tank farm in Burnaby, British Columbia. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners' Trans Mountain expansion would twin a 60-year-old line running from Alberta to Vancouver, tripling its capacity. Ben Nelms / Reuters -
Storage tanks, holding crude and refined oil, at the Kinder Morgan tank farm in Burnaby, British Columbia. The pipeline expansion has seen a surge in municipal opposition in recent months particularly among aboriginal communities along the route. Ben Nelms / Reuters -
The entrance for the Kinder Morgan tank farm in Burnaby, British Columbia. Ben Nelms / Reuters -
An underground pipeline marker near the Kinder Morgan tank farm in Burnaby, British Columbia. Kinder Morgan is now pushing to run the final leg of the pipeline under Burnaby Mountain, a conservation area. Ben Nelms / Reuters -
Storage tanks, holding crude and refined oil, at the Kinder Morgan tank farm in Burnaby, British Columbia. The pipeline expansion has seen a surge in municipal opposition in recent months particularly among aboriginal communities along the route. Ben Nelms / Reuters -
Tree stumps that were recently cut down by workers hired by Kinder Morgan in the Burnaby Mountain conservation area. The city challenged the company's right to cut down a few trees to complete surveying work on that route, a battle that ended up in British Columbia's Supreme Court. Ben Nelms / Reuters -
A containment area around a petroleum storage tank at the Kinder Morgan tank farm in Burnaby, British Columbia. Ben Nelms / Reuters
Opposition builds up against Canadian oil pipeline expansion — in pictures
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