"Speculation is mounting in Ottawa that the Trudeau government is poised to take over the embattled Trans Mountain pipeline project after its Texas-based proponent, Kinder Morgan, cancelled a federal construction permit application needed to pursue the oil pipeline and tanker expansion.
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority confirmed in a May 14 email, obtained by National Observer, that the company had withdrawn an application to build a temporary construction barge on the West Coast that would have been needed to pursue the project.
"The applicant for the above-noted proposed project has advised us that they are no longer planning on pursuing this proposal and requested that their permit application be withdrawn/cancelled," said an official from the federal agency in a May 14 email sent to the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in the Burrard Inlet of B.C. "Our review of the proposed project is therefore cancelled.""
Mike De Souza teports for Canada's National Observer May 28 2018.
