{"id":67062,"date":"2025-09-16T12:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energi.media\/?p=67062"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:34:13","slug":"report-calls-trans-mountain-a-red-flag-for-future-subsidies-after-price-rises-584-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energi.media\/news\/report-calls-trans-mountain-a-red-flag-for-future-subsidies-after-price-rises-584-per-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"Report calls Trans Mountain a \u2018red flag\u2019 for future subsidies after price rises 584 per cent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This article was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/breaking-report-calls-trans-mountain-a-red-flag-for-future-subsidies-after-price-rises-584\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Energy Mix<\/a> on Sept. 16, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/author\/chris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>By Chris Bonasia<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cfinancial quagmire\u201d of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion\u2014a project whose final price tag ballooned 584 per cent from 2012 to 2024\u2014should serve as a cautionary tale against risking public funds when businesses back away, the United States-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) warns in a new report this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOil infrastructure development, once seen as a financial boon, is beset by rising costs and lower price trends,\u201d said Mark Kalegha, IEEFA energy finance analyst and co-author of the report. \u201cAs the Canadian government experiences pressure to pay industry infrastructure costs from public coffers, it\u2019s time to step back and take a hard look at the energy questions Canada faces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IEEFA, an independent research group that studies global energy markets, writes that Ottawa \u201cessentially bailed out\u201d the opposition-plagued TMX project when Kinder Morgan Corporation\u2019s CEO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/justin-trudeau-the-speech-he-never-gave\/\">threatened to cancel<\/a>\u00a0it, buying it for around C$4.7 billion in 2018. Since then, Canada has provided TMX $35.6 billion in direct funding, about $1.4 billion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/trans-mountain-pipeline-cost-burden-looms-as-oil-exports-surge\/\">more than commonly reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Overall public exposure surpasses the $34.2 billion spent on pipeline construction, IEEFA writes. The final tally \u201calso includes advances made toward working capital, operations, regulatory compliance costs, and financing concessions. Once indirect subsidies are included, government exposure rises above $40 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The high cost of the pipeline put \u201cenormous pressure on the pipeline toll-setting process, resulting in strenuous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/oil-producers-disappointed-as-trans-mountain-pipeline-nears-completion\/\">objections from the pipeline\u2019s shippers<\/a>,\u201d IEEFA wrote in a release. \u201cMore than $25 billion of the funding provided is ineligible for recovery via proposed shipper tolls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, as some private interests and public officials call for more pipelines across Canada amid a trade war with the U.S., \u201cit is worth taking a closer look at the financial quagmire of the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline,\u201d IEEFA says. Calling the TMX\u2019s financial track record \u201ca red flag,\u201d IEEFA writes that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/canadians-want-oil-companies-to-pay-for-tmx-survey-finds\/\">taxpayers<\/a>\u00a0could ultimately be burdened with paying the costs of another such project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Story:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/top-free-market-think-tank-unsure-that-canada-needs-more-pipelines\/\">Top Free-Market Think Tank Unsure That Canada Needs More Pipelines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for new import markets in Asia, China is now TMX\u2019s biggest customer, surpassing the U.S., but \u201cthe receptivity\u201d of China to an influx of Canadian oil is not guaranteed to grow or even plateau, IEEFA writes. Competition for the soon-to-be declining China oil import market is already \u201cfierce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, TMX is still operating at around 80-85 per cent capacity, with a projected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/top-free-market-think-tank-unsure-that-canada-needs-more-pipelines\/\">16 per cent excess capacity in 2025<\/a>. Tankers receiving its oil are being filled to 70 per cent. Still, Trans Mountain Corporation says the pipeline is running \u201cspectacularly well,\u201d on track to pay $1.25 billion worth of interest, fees, and dividends to the government this year.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta\u2019s oilsands production is continuing to expand, which could provide more oil for export if reliable markets are found. Company officials are looking for ways to increase the pipeline\u2019s capacity, including by using drag reducing agents that could increase the amount of oil flowing through the pipe by 5 per cent to 10 per cent, or a more expensive option that would require $3 billion to $4 billion to build more powerful pumping stations,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/bakx-tmx-optimization-oil-wcs-1.7624323\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/bakx-tmx-optimization-oil-wcs-1.7624323\">reports<\/a>\u00a0CBC News.<\/p>\n<p>The Globe and Mail<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-trans-mountain-port-oil-shipping-vancouver\/\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-trans-mountain-port-oil-shipping-vancouver\/\">adds<\/a> that vessels will be able to be filled to 100 per cent after dredging works in the port in Vancouver are completed in late 2026 or 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This article was published by The Energy Mix on Sept. 16, 2025. By Chris Bonasia The \u201cfinancial quagmire\u201d of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion\u2014a project whose final price tag ballooned 584 per cent from 2012 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/energi.media\/news\/report-calls-trans-mountain-a-red-flag-for-future-subsidies-after-price-rises-584-per-cent\/\" title=\"Report calls Trans Mountain a \u2018red flag\u2019 for future subsidies after price rises 584 per cent\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":67063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,14,95,76,1273],"class_list":{"0":"post-67062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-fossil-fuels","11":"tag-pipelines","12":"tag-tmx"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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