CALGARY, AB, Sept. 25, 2023 /CNW/ – Right this moment, the Fee of the Canada Power Regulator (CER) accepted Trans Mountain’s utility for a route deviation within the Pípsell (Jacko Lake) space. The Fee will launch its causes for determination within the coming weeks.
On August 10, 2023, Trans Mountain submitted an utility to revise the route and technique of development for a 1.3 km part of the pipeline route, within the Pípsell (Jacko Lake) space. The corporate indicated that it had encountered important technical challenges whereas making an attempt to finish micro-tunnelling alongside the beforehand accepted route. In response to those points, Trans Mountain proposed a mixed method of horizontal directional drilling and traditional open trenching alongside the revised route.
Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation (SSN) responded to the appliance, as the realm holds profound religious and cultural significance to the Nation and Peoples. An oral listening to was held in Calgary on September 18, 19 and 20, 2023, to listen to submissions from each events on the appliance. The listening to included the availability of Indigenous data by SSN, in addition to cross-examination and last argument.
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Related Hyperlinks
- Choice
- Backgrounder
- Undertaking Web page
- Trans Mountain Route Deviation Utility
- Reconsideration Report – Trans Mountain Enlargement Undertaking
- Trans Mountain Interim Tolling Utility
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Backgrounder
Trans Mountain Enlargement Undertaking: Key routing milestones within the Pípsell (Jacko Lake) space (2019-2023)
2019
- June 18: The Governor in Council accepted the 1,147 km Trans Mountain Enlargement Undertaking (TMEP) and its normal pipeline hall, topic to 156 situations.
- June 21: The Nationwide Power Board (NEB) issued Certificates of Public Comfort and Necessity OC-065. The certificates permits Trans Mountain to assemble and function the TMEP.
- July 19: The NEB directed Trans Mountain to submit its Plan, Profile, and E-book of Reference (PPBoR) for the TMEP’s total route. The PPBoR gives detailed details about the pipeline together with its exact location on the properties it crosses and landowner data.
- July 31: Trans Mountainsubmitted its PPBoR for Section 5 of the TMEP (the TMEP is split into seven segments). This included particulars for a subsection, Section 5.3, which passes by the Pípsell (Jacko Lake) space of British Columbia.
- September 5: The Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation (SSN) opposed the TMEP route for a lot of Section 5, together with all of Section 5.3, and sought an in depth route listening to.
- November 4: SSN withdrew their opposition earlier than any detailed route listening to was held. SSN indicated that Trans Mountain had addressed their routing issues. The route outlined on July 31 would stay the identical, topic to another detailed route hearings for the realm.
2020
- April 6: The Fee of the CER issued a mixed determination following detailed route hearings for KGHM Ajax Mining Inc. and Sugarloaf Ranches Restricted lands within the Pípsell (Jacko Lake) space.
- April 30: The Fee accepted numerous PPBoR sheets (and the route proven on them) for Segments 3, 4, and 5.3, together with for lands within the Pípsell (Jacko Lake) space.
2022
- February 11: Trans Mountainutilized for a deviation, or route revision, for a stretch of the pipeline in Section 5.3. The route revision concerned a development technique shift from trenching to micro-tunnelling for about 4.2 km within the Pípsell (Jacko Lake) space. SSN had labored with Trans Mountain to develop this route and agreed to it in January, as Trans Mountain defined in its utility.
- February 28: The Fee acceptedTrans Mountain’s route revision utility.
2023
- August 10: Trans Mountain sought approval for an additional deviation for 1.3 km of the pipeline within the Pípsell (Jacko Lake) space on account of points encountered with micro-tunnelling. Trans Mountain proposed reverting again to the unique route accepted in April 2020 and altering its development technique from micro-tunnelling to a mixture of horizontal directional drilling and open lower trenching.
- September 18-20: After a number of written steps, the Fee held an in-person listening to in Calgary to listen to submissions from Trans Mountain and SSN on the appliance. The listening to included the availability of Indigenous data by SSN, in addition to cross-examination and last argument.
SOURCE Canada Power Regulator
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