If built, the Trans Mountain expansion would
dramatically increase oil tanker traffic off of the coast of British Columbia.
Not exact matches
The new pipeline would triple the amount of diluted bitumen transported through a seismically active area of the Southwest coast of British Columbia, double the
oil storage tank capacity on Burnaby Mountain above heavily populated areas and
dramatically increase the number of Aframax
tankers required to ship the
oil from Kinder Morgan's marine terminal through Burrard Inlet and coastal waters.
If built, the Trans Mountain project would
dramatically increase shipments of bitumen to a maximum of about 890,000 barrels per day from Alberta to a terminal in Burnaby, a city in Metro Vancouver.The project is also estimated to
increase oil tanker traffic by seven times above current levels in the traditional territory of the Tsleil - Waututh Nation.