The company that owns the Trans Mountain pipeline says it remains optimistic that the pipeline could restart by the end of the week.
Trans Mountain Corp. says it has 350 people working around the clock to restart the pipeline, which has been closed as a precaution since Nov. 14 due to flooding in British Columbia.
The company says that over the weekend, crews walked or were airlifted to areas where there is still no road access to inspect the pipeline.
Trans Mountain says there is no indication of any spill from the pipeline. As a precaution, the company has deployed spill response teams at checkpoints in nearby river areas or downstream from where it is working.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline is a critical piece of energy infrastructure for British Columbia and Washington State. This is the longest period that the pipeline has been closed in its almost 70-year history.
Enbridge Inc. also temporarily closed a segment of one of the two pipelines that make up its Westcoast natural gas pipeline last week due to heavy flooding in BC.
Enbridge says it was able to maintain natural gas service despite the event and has since increased the capacity of the system. It says the Westcoast pipeline now carries 1.63 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas, more than 100 percent of the total contracted volume transported last year at this time.
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Canadian Pacific Railway Co. announced Monday that it will reopen its railway between Kamloops, BC and Vancouver at noon on Tuesday, November 23. CP says crews have been working 24 hours a day since Nov. 14 to repair 30 locations in Thompson and Cascade Subdivisions that were damaged by the flooding.
This Canadian Press report was first published on November 22, 2021.
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