Indigenous Not-for-profit director Chief Tony Alexis discusses Trans Mountain ownership – BOE Report
January 28, 2022
In 2013, when Kinder Morgan formally expressed intentions to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline, it set in motion actions and reactions by many competing interests.
Besides creating controversy, the event stirred Indigenous interest in the pipeline expansion project. Five years later, in 2018, the pipeline was sold to the federal government for C$4.5bn.
On the same day, the Federal Court of Appeal overturned the government’s approval of the expansion and a re-initiation of phase three consultations with Indigenous groups impacted by the pipeline spurred even more interest in the pipeline.
In the next four years, several Indigenous-led ownership groups emerged, expressing the desire to purchase Trans Mountain with the Iron Coalition, Project Reconciliation, and the Western Indigenous Pipeline Group being the most publicized.
