Canada’s energy regulator ordered Trans Mountain Corp to stop work on the Trans Mountain pipeline in a wetland area in British Columbia, according to a notice on Canada Energy Regulator’s website that cited non-compliance with environmental and safety regulations, adding to years of delays and piling on top of an already wealth of environmental opposition. CER ordered the work stoppage, citing “damaged and down amphibian exclusion fencing….
Trans Mountain must also correct all deficiencies, investigate the root cause of the environmental non-compliances, and identify the reason for the delay in correcting deficiencies already raised, and finally, to conduct a safety inspection and provide a report to CER. “Trans Mountain is working hard to correct all non-compliances and to prevent reoccurrence,” the company said in a statement. The pipeline is more than 95% complete.