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After 67 inconclusive months, Canada’s pipeline regulatory ordeal advanced a political step Tuesday when the Liberal government in Ottawa granted approval for a second time to the 590,000 b/d Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.

An appellate verdict last week blocked the British Columbia (BC) government’s campaign to stop the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (TMX) project by enacting provincial control over oil deliveries through the planned facilities.

The Alberta government moved Monday to put teeth into the campaign to restart the stalled Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. (KML) Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion.

Talks on restarting Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd.’s (KML) politically stalled Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion started Sunday with no sign of a quick or speedy settlement between the feuding federal, Alberta and British Columbia (BC) governments.

Kinder Morgan Inc. cut the price for its initial public offering (IPO) of shares in its Canadian subsidiary after admitting the reason for the sale — expansion of oilsands export route Trans Mountain Pipeline — still faces serious political risks.

Canada’s growth customer for natural gas made a long stride forward Thursday, when the National Energy Board (NEB) approved a 590,000 b/d pipeline expansion for oilsands exports to Asia.

NTE Energy LLC affiliate NTE Carolinas has secured roughly $600 million in financing to build its proposed Kings Mountain Energy Center, a 475 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Cleveland County, NC.

Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC has filed at FERC for its 301-mile project to transport up to 2 million Dth/d of Appalachian gas to serve markets in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, as well as in Appalachia.

While delays of export terminal projects sink hopes for rapid overseas sales of Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG), plans to fill tankers with oilfield liquids remain afloat on the Pacific Coast of British Columbia (BC).