EDMONTON – The Progressive Contractors Association of Canada (PCA) is praising the completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
A PCA release called the project “the pipeline that finished the marathon.”
“While everything from flooding to fires and legal action threatened to sideline this project, it mattered too much not to finish. After years of delays, and a roller-coaster ride to get here, it’s finally time to recognize what this pipeline means to Canadians,” PCA president and CEO Paul de Jong said in a statement.
“We’re incredibly proud of our member companies and their workers. They achieved great feats in engineering and construction mastery in order to move the pipeline around communities and through the diverse terrain of mountainous regions and waterways.”
The Trans Mountain pipeline, which twins the existing 1,150-kilometre pipeline between Edmonton and Burnaby, was announced in 2012 and almost triples the capacity of the system to 890,000 barrels per day, the release said.
The federal government purchased the pipeline for $4.5 billion in 2018 in order to ensure completion of the project, which faced numerous cost overruns and delays as the budget swelled to $34 billion.
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