Another Month & Another Delay & Cost Overrun For Canada’s Black Elephant

Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project never had a business case that made the slightest sense. Perhaps that’s why its construction project is such a train wreck. In the latest installment of the tragicomedy, TMX — the Crown corporation that owns the dead asset — has requested a route deviation that will delay completion by at least nine months and add costs to the effort.

In the interest of pretending that the details matter for this very black elephant, the construction team found that tunneling was expensive and hard and want to change part of the route south of Kamloops, BC, to a different route where they can use much cheaper and lower risk trenching and covering construction. Naturally, the pathway that the company wants to follow has “profound spiritual and…