Kinder Morgan says 34 ships a month would visit Vancouver harbour if pipeline expansion is OK’d – The Province
June 4, 2015
The number of oil tankers travelling under the Lions Gate Bridge to and from Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby marine terminal will jump from five a month to 34, if the company’s pipeline expansion proposal goes ahead.
That figure was among several statistics explained by Kinder Morgan staff Thursday during a guided media tour of its 188-acre Burnaby Terminal and the nearby Westridge Marine Terminal on Burrard Inlet.
Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline currently pumps about 300,000 barrels a day from Edmonton to Burnaby, the only pipeline access for Canadian oil products. The proposal under review to twin the pipeline would nearly triple its daily capacity to 890,000.
Bikram Kanjilal, lead marine development consultant on the Trans Mountain expansion, said if the project is approved, the marine terminal would see “the same type of cargo, it’s almost the same load of cargo per vessel, however there will be more vessels.”
