VANCOUVER — Some First Nations and Metis communities are determined to purchase an equity stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion despite a court ruling that halted construction and potentially set the project back for years. Darryl Dyck/THE CANADIAN PRESS Indigenous peoples protest the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline in Vancouver on May 29, 2018. Canada has purchased the existing Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5 billion and pledged to complete the expansion project, which would triple the line's capacity to 890,000 barrels of oil a day and increase the number of tankers in Metro Vancouver's Burrard Inlet seven-fold. The group will continue to push for a stake in Trans Mountain, he said. Darryl Dyck/THE CANADIAN PRESS Rueben George, Project Manager for the Tsleil-Waututh Nation Sacred Trust Initiative, responds to a Federal Court of Appeal ruling on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion on Aug. 30, 2018.

Source: Huffington Post September 09, 2018 22:41 UTC