UPDATE 1-Canada’s Trans Mountain seeks last-minute route deviation on pipeline expansion

The Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) project has asked Canadian regulators for a route deviation on a 1.3-kilometre (0.8 mile)section of pipeline in British Columbia, months before the 600,000 barrel per day project is due to start shipping crude. The application to the Canada Energy Regulator came to light as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday said he was confident the project was a solid investment and that interest was high among Indigenous groups who wanted to buy a share of the pipeline. The regulator is weighing whether to allow Trans Mountain Corp (TMC), the government-owned corporation building the project, to deviate from its previously approved route on a section of the pipeline just south of Kamloops in southern interior British Columbia.