Trans Mountain Tree Cutting Can Resume as Stop Work Order on Pipeline Route Lifts

Pipes for the Trans Mountain pipeline project are seen at a storage facility near Hope, B.C., on Sept. 1, 2020. A federal regulator says it has lifted a stop work order on tree cutting and grass mowing work along the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project route. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

CALGARY—A federal regulator has lifted a stop−work order on tree cutting and grass mowing along the route of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

The Canada Energy Regulator says in a statement Trans Mountain has submitted a plan to correct deficiencies in the oversight of its contractors that could pose threats to nesting birds.