Event1 May 2024Action

The Trans Mountain expansion enters commercial service, nearly tripling the pipeline's capacity

The expanded pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby, BC began commercial operations on May 1, 2024, nine months before the first US tariff order on Canada. Approved in 2016 and bought by Ottawa in 2018, it was completed under public ownership.

Date

1 May 2024

Kind

Other

Where

Canada

Evidence

Action: Something was done: a law switched on, a tariff imposed, money committed. How evidence is weighed

Sources

• Canada Development Investment Corporation (CDEV), “Trans Mountain Announces Milestones of Commercial Service for Expanded System” (external site), 1 May 2024. source record

Projects

• Trans Mountain (TMX), existing system

Claims that rest on this event

• SupportsMechanism

  In the record so far, resource projects facing organized First Nations, Métis or Inuit opposition reached construction about as often as those without it (approved: 4 of 7 vs 1 of 2; under review: 2 of 4 vs 2 of 8); tiny, selected samples.

  The opposed Trans Mountain expansion entered service in May 2024.