The Editor:
Re: Trans Mountain facing intense deadline pressure to finish pipeline on time: Documents (Aug. 29, 2023 by The Canadian Press)
This report does not get to the crux of the matter. The picture at the head of the article showing what construction using a trench, looks like, tells you a lot of what you need to know.
This is what Trans Mountain wants to do to the land, and afterwards leave a wide swath, 1.3 km long, forever left in an unnatural state.
Would you like this done to your land?
Trans Mountain recently submitted engineering reports on Microtunnelling and HDD (horizontal directional drilling), indicating both are feasible.
As I understand it, they have a problem with mictrotunnelling, in that the tunnel does not go where they want it to go.
Too bad. They could try HDD.
Engineers are not in the habit of saying they can't do something. There is no good reason to say they cannot make a tunnel here; they can.
The plan to finish this year is only the latest of several planned finish dates.
Trans Mountain regularly puts pressure on the CER to get approval quickly. The CER should not oblige.
If you look at the Aug. 1 look ahead, you will see a few things not finished by the end of this year.
The Jacko Lake tunnel is one. Another is backfilling of a Burnaby Mountain tunnel portal.
- David Huntley, Burnaby
