TRANS MOUNTAIN KEY DATES

October 1953

The Trans Mountain pipeline begins shipping oil from Alberta to Burnaby with an initial capacity of 150,000 barrels a day.

1957

Pipeline capacity is expanded via the construction of a 160-kilometre pipeline loop. The Westridge Marine Terminal is built and commissioned in Burnaby.

Jan. 14, 1985

Trans Mountain’s biggest spill occurs at a tank farm in the Edmonton area. Nearly 10,000 barrels of oil are released.

2006-08

The Anchor Loop project adds 160 kilometres of new pipeline through Jasper National Park and Mount Robson Provincial Park between Hinton, Alta., and Hargreaves, B.C. It increases capacity from 260,000 bpd to 300,000 bpd.

Feb. 21, 2012

Kinder Morgan says it wants to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline after receiving support from oil shippers and will begin public consultations.

Dec. 16, 2013

An application is made to the National Energy Board to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline, with construction proposed to begin in 2017 and service by December 2019.

Nov. 2014

More than 100 people are arrested after they camp out in a conservation area on Burnaby Mountain, east of Vancouver, to block crews from conducting drilling and survey work related to the pipeline expansion. Most of the charges are later dropped.

June 29, 2015

Weeks before the election campaign, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau promises increased consultation on pipeline projects as part of his party’s environmental platform.

August 2015

The NEB postpones public hearings after striking from the record economic evidence prepared by a Kinder Morgan consultant who was to begin working for the regulator.

Jan. 12, 2016

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says in a written submission to the NEB that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is in the best interests of both Alberta and Canada.

Jan. 27, 2016

The federal Liberal government says pipeline projects such as the Trans Mountain expansion will now be assessed in part on the greenhouse gas emissions produced in the extraction and processing of the oil they carry. Proponents will also be required to improve consultations with aboriginals.

May 17, 2016

Ottawa appoints a threemember panel to conduct an environmental review of the Trans Mountain expansion project and report in November.