Twinning the pipeline is a $5.4-billion project. – in addition to the ones in Burnaby – and an increased capacity of 890,000 barrels of oil per day. Plans for an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline include 980 kilometres of new pipeline, new storage tankers in Alberta and Sumas, B.C.
Construction, according to Kinder Morgan documents, would last at least two years. Kinder Morgan forecasts construction of the new terminals to begin in 2016 if the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline is approved. “Building a tank farm on the side of a mountain in a seismic zone makes no sense,” he said. Noise and the potential for oil spills are other issues.Īnd a major concern is the risk posed to the community in the wake of an earthquake. He said the fumes from the operation affect air quality. “It’s part of a strategy to limit discussion.”ĭutton said the community has major concerns over health and safety issues raised by the proposed expansion. “I expect the open house will be the same as the other Kinder Morgan meetings – the goal is to isolate people, have private conversations and limit discussion so people don’t come up with a unified position,” said Dutton. Instead, his organization will hold its own meeting. News of the Kinder Morgan designs – and the community meeting scheduled for September 25 in Coquitlam to showcase the drawings – drew ire from residents in Burnaby.Īlan Dutton of BROKE (Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion) said “there’s no point” in going to the information session on the expansion plans. The dock at Westridge can currently handle one vessel that size. Aframax vessels are considered mid-size tankers, capable of carrying up to 120,000 metric tonnes of crude oil. Kinder Morgan’s designs include 14 new tanks, a new 36-inch pipeline entering from the southeast and two new 30-inch pipelines exiting to the northwest, toward Westridge.Īt Westridge, expansion plans include a new dock complex with three new berths capable of loading Aframax-size vessels. The tank terminal has a capacity of 1.6 million barrels of oil. The facilities in question are the storage tank terminal located on Burnaby Mountain and the Westridge Marine Terminal, the terminus of the pipeline.Ĭurrently, the tank terminal consists of 13 tanks, a 24-inch pipeline entering from the southeast and a 24-inch pipeline exiting the terminal to the northwest toward Westridge.
Crews are now beginning the levelling of the aggregate material within the cells and have begun the soil improvement work to establish the foundation for the expanded foreshore.Energy giant Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMP) has released conceptual designs for two Burnaby facilities set for expansion if the company’s plan to twin its Trans Mountain pipeline is approved.
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We recently completed the backfill of 11 full cells and 10 half cells, which, will form the foundation of the foreshore expansion at the Terminal. With a strategic set of marine piles now installed, the marine crews have begun construction of the above water superstructure for the loading docks. These funds will be collected over 40 years and are being set aside in a trust.
In 2016, Trans Mountain estimated it would cost 368 million to do this. These bubble curtains, alongside noise shrouds, help mitigate the noise effects in the area in accordance with our comprehensive Environmental Protection Plan and Noise Management Plan for Westridge. The CER requires all pipelines to set aside funds to safely cease operation of a pipeline at the end of its useful life. At this time, 43 of the 162 necessary piles have been completed. Recently, the bubble curtains, which reduce underwater noise from pile driving activities, have been enhanced to better deliver more protection and better manage the dissipation of underwater noise around each pile. More information on the specific measures we are taking can be found here. In order to safely transport workers to our Burnaby sites, we have reduced the number of people transported per vehicle to adhere to health authority recommendations and increased vehicle cleaning requirements and frequency. Over the past month, Trans Mountain and our construction contractors have implemented a number of new safety measures to ensure the health and safety of everyone on our sites, including temperature testing of those entering the site for fever or sickness, staggering work shifts to minimize the number of people on site, and practicing physical distancing guidelines. In response to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to follow all advice from government and health officials to ensure the protection of our people on the ground, while continuing the safe construction of the Expansion Project. Work continues at our Lower Mainland terminals, with considerable progress being made on the foreshore expansion at Westridge Marine Terminal and ongoing work to prepare for the installation of 14 new tanks at Burnaby Terminal.
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