The first major new oil pipeline to be built in Canada in decades is set to open on Wednesday, praised by proponents but panned by environmentalists worried about the consequences of more crude production. The Can$34-billion (US$25 billion) Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project was a troubled private sector plan taken over by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government in 2018 to ensure it went ahead. It will carry 600,000 additional barrels per day of oil from Alberta to Canada’s Pacific coast for shipping overseas. Built alongside an existing 1,150-kilometer (715-mile) line erected in 1953 that already moves ... (full story)