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Coastal GasLink pipeline project mechanically complete before year-end deadline

WATCH ABOVE: (From September 2023) The B.C. Environmental Assessment Office has fined Coastal GasLink hundreds of thousands of dollars for problems related to pipeline construction. Erosion and sediment control issues were flagged in four inspections from April and May 2022 – Sep 22, 2023

The Coastal GasLink pipeline that stretches across northern B.C. is mechanically complete ahead of the company’s year-end deadline.

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A statement from TC Energy Corp. says history has been made by finishing Canada’s first pipeline to the West Coast in over 70 years.

The company announced in October that the installation of the pipe was finished, while mechanical completion means the end of construction, successful hydrotesting of the full 670-kilometre line and engineering reviews.

The statement says Coastal GasLink’s team is in the field getting ready to deliver gas to the LNG Canada processing and export facility in Kitimat, on B.C.’s northern coast.

The terminus for the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline is seen at the LNG Canada export terminal under construction in Kitimat, B.C., on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

It says that while construction crews have been packing up, reclamation work still needs to be finished and some of the workforce will return next spring.

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Planning for the pipeline began a decade ago and the project has been delayed by protests, including train blockades by First Nations across the country.

The pipeline was originally estimated to cost $6.2 billion, but that climbed to $14.5 billion in the most recent price tag released by TC Energy earlier this year.

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