Trans Mountain pipeline launches to little fanfare

After years of challenges and delays, the controversial Trans Mountain expansion project has started carrying Alberta crude to B.C. Last week, as gasoline prices spiked in Vancouver to reach $2.20 per litre—48 cents above the national average—crude oil from Alberta began filling the new secondary Trans Mountain pipeline and making its way out west, to Burnaby. The 1,150-kilometre, government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is complete and officially in commercial operation. It was given the official green light by the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER) on April 30 with a "leave to open." By the end of this month, oil tankers…