Trans Mountain Warns of Delay, Extra Cost Without Route Change to Expanded Oil Pipeline

Expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline would be delayed by months and incur hundreds of millions of dollars of additional cost, unless a regulator approves a change in its route, the Canadian government corporation that owns the pipeline told a regulator in a filing on Thursday.

Trans Mountain is asking the Canada Energy Regulator to approve a change from its approved route on a 1.3-kilometre (0.8 mile) section just south of Kamloops, British Columbia, saying the micro-tunneling construction method necessary on the existing route is not feasible technically or economically.

(Reporting by Rod Nickel in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Editing by Alex Richardson)