MPs Mull Toll Hike to Offset Losses on Trans Mountain Pipeline: Report

MPs Mull Toll Hike to Offset Losses on Trans Mountain Pipeline: Report
Construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline is seen underway in Kamloops, B.C., on Sept. 1, 2020. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
Amanda Brown
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The Commons Natural Resources Committee said the operators of the Trans Mountain Pipeline should think about increasing user tolls to reduce the beleaguered project’s escalating taxpayer losses, according to its report.

“The pipeline operator may be unable to charge high enough tolls to cover the costs of the Trans Mountain expansion,” said a committee report, titled “Federal Assistance to Canada’s Natural Resources Sectors,” as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.