Mainline power
About 11 pump stations
Each station 8–12 pumps of 5,000–7,000 hp. Installed capacity 440–460 MW. Total project power need about 500 MW, including valves, terminals, and other kit. A grid study is part of early design.
Fort McMurray · 1 October 2026
Pacific Link The first project of national interest.
Prime Minister Carney and Premier Smith listed the West Coast Oil Pipeline — now Pacific Link — under Schedule 1 of the Building Canada Act. For Alberta and B.C. shops that plan and build things, the paid work starts before pipe: environmental programs, contracting strategy, land, and engineering field work.
Bruderheim, AB → Roberts Bank, Delta, BC · 1 million b/d · Trans Mountain to build and operate · Warre & Vavasour is not a project partner
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01Why it matters now
Early work is being lined up in this stage.
Listing is not construction. Alberta is clear: no pipe is in the ground. The July submission’s current stage is owner-team ramp-up, a narrower centreline, engineering design, a power study, materials strategy, contracting strategy, land acquisition, constructability review, and early contractor planning. Environmental service providers are already marked selected.
The Prime Minister’s release says that over the next year the proponents will work up a final concept — community consultation, route mapping, ecological surveys, cost estimates, procurement, and workforce planning — while the Major Projects Office, supported by the Canada Energy Regulator, writes a single conditions document by 1 September 2027.
No EPC or construction contractor has been named. We found no public procurement notices as of 1 October 2026. The shops that get ready now are the ones who can answer when Trans Mountain opens the door.
02Key facts
What is on the public record.
Numbers below trace to the official listing and Alberta’s Major Projects Office submission.
- Capacity
- 1 million barrels per day of crude oil for Asia-Pacific export. Alberta’s plain-language summary calls the product heavy crude oil.
- Pipe
- Up to 42-inch nominal steel, grade 483, wall thickness 19–26 mm.
- Length
- 1,211 km on the optimized corridor; 1,246 km on the original. About 1,200–1,250 km once a final route is chosen.
- Endpoints
- New receipt terminal near Bruderheim, Alberta (53°49′6.50″N, 113°3′13.34″W) to a new terminal and VLCC marine facility at Roberts Bank, Delta, B.C. (49°03′09.23″N, 123°7′28.94″W).
- Ownership
- Canada, through Trans Mountain Corporation, and Alberta, through the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission, hold equal ownership. Pembina Pipeline Corporation is a private investor. Indigenous communities are offered at least 10% ownership, financed through Canada and Alberta Indigenous loan-guarantee programs. The final cap table after those interests is not public.
- Builder / operator
- Trans Mountain Corporation will develop, construct, and operate the pipeline. Pembina is contributing contracting, budgeting, engineering, and construction expertise.
- Cost
- $35.2–$43.7 billion in today’s dollars, including contingency. Escalation and AFUDC are excluded. The high case assumes no regulatory reform.
- Federal conditions
- A single conditions document, led by the Major Projects Office and supported by the CER, by 1 September 2027. It is intended to stand in for the CER certificate and several other federal permits.
- Early construction
- Alberta says construction could start as early as 1 September 2027, once consultation and the conditions document are in place. The July submission planned early works as soon as October 2027.
- FID
- The submission’s plan targets a final investment decision from December 2027 to April 2028. A wider planning window in the same document runs to Q4 2029.
- Completion
- Construction completion is forecast 2032 (low case) to 2034 (high case). Upstream emissions modelling assumes operations start in 2032.
03The route
A Trans Mountain corridor, then two choices west of Hope.
The line is meant to join the existing Trans Mountain (TMEP Line 2) right-of-way near Wabamun, Alberta, and leave it near Hope, B.C. From there it crosses the Fraser Valley, Langley, and Surrey to Roberts Bank. The final route is not set. The proponents and the submission say it will be refined through geotechnical engineering and engagement.
In Alberta the submission names Strathcona County, Sturgeon County, Lac Ste. Anne County, Parkland County (Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Wabamun), Yellowhead County (Edson, Hinton), the Town of Jasper, and Jasper National Park — about 7% of the route. In B.C.: Mount Robson Park; Thompson-Nicola (Blue River, Clearwater, Little Fort, Kamloops); Fraser Valley (Hope); then Metro Vancouver — Township of Langley, Surrey, and Delta.
Planned deviations from Trans Mountain include south of Moose Lake / north of Kinbasket Lake, the Raft River valley between Blue River and Clearwater, and north of Kamloops to avoid the airport and sensitive lands.
West of Hope there are two corridor options. The optimized (north) crossing goes over the Fraser near Hope, runs north of Highway 7 past Harrison Hot Springs, Harrison Mills, Lake Errock, Deroche, Dewdney, and Hatzic, then recrosses into Langley. The original (south) option runs past Bridal Falls, Slesse, and Cultus Lake, near the U.S. border, through Abbotsford to south Langley. Both then run through Langley and Surrey and along Highway 99 to Roberts Bank.
Access and logistics communities named in the submission: Fort Saskatchewan, Edson, Hinton, Jasper, Clearwater, Blue River, Kamloops, Merritt, Hope, Chilliwack, Mission, Langley, and Delta. Heavy haul is on Highways 1 and 5. Fly-in hubs are Edmonton, Kamloops, Abbotsford, and Vancouver.
04Scale of the build
Pump stations, terminals, a jetty, camps, yards.
Alberta end
Bruderheim receipt terminal
About 50–65 hectares. Fifteen tanks. 6.5 million barrels of working storage. A hub to receive, measure, store, and pump crude into the line.
B.C. end
Roberts Bank marine terminal
About 260 hectares, with a ~130-hectare tank farm (15 tanks, 6.5 million barrels). Two VLCC berths. A causeway and jetty of about 5,000 m. Part of the terminal sits in Tsawwassen First Nation Treaty Lands. Port of Vancouver jurisdiction.
Camps
6–12 camps, ~750 beds each
Temporary camps, possibly on former Trans Mountain Expansion sites, where commercial lodging is thin: Yellowhead, Jasper, Valemount–Blue River, North Thompson, Coquihalla.
Materials
~10 stockpile sites
Pipe, tanks, and pumps staged along the corridor. Roughly 1,200 km of 42-inch pipe. Rail, truck, and marine delivery.
Yards
~20 construction yards
Plus temporary roads, bridges, matting, and workspace. Early works, if authorized, start with access, clearing, temporary infrastructure, major trenchless crossings, and marine piling.
05Who supplies a build like this
Secondary and tertiary work, by category.
Categories drawn from what the submission says it needs. No private firm is named here as if it had a Pacific Link contract — none have been announced.
Now through 2028
- Survey, geomatics, land — ROW flagging, access agreements, acquisition, Right of Entry. 40–55% of the corridor is private land, heaviest in Strathcona / Sturgeon / Parkland and the Fraser Valley.
- Environmental, archaeology, heritage — field programs (the submission plans to reuse Trans Mountain baseline data and close gaps), SARA / fish / migratory bird work, Alberta Historical Resources and B.C. Heritage Conservation Act permits. Already marked selected in Stage 1.
- Engineering — pipeline, geotech, hydraulic, power, marine. Centreline, trenchless and HDD, slope stability, the ~500 MW power study, causeway and jetty design.
- Indigenous services and partnerships — monitors, traditional land use studies, equity advisory, Indigenous contractors. The corridor crosses traditional territories of about 90–125 Indigenous groups. The same operator’s Trans Mountain Expansion awarded more than $6 billion to Indigenous businesses; that is precedent, not a Pacific Link award.
2027 through construction
- Trades and mainline spreads — clearing, grading, stringing, welding, trenching, lowering-in, hydrotest; HDD, direct pipe, micro-tunnel, drill-and-blast. Early works 2027+; full construction 2028–2032+.
- Fabrication around Nisku / Leduc / Acheson — the Edmonton-region industrial cluster is the usual shop base for tanks, skids, and steel on a build like this. It is not on the pipeline route. Treat that as geography, not a named award.
- Facilities and electrical — 11 pump stations, two tank terminals (30 tanks), substations, cathodic protection, leak detection, remote valves.
- Logistics and camps — heavy haul on Highways 1 and 5; rail and marine to stockpile sites and yards; catering, security, shuttles, fuel, waste. Access-road civil work in the bush and at the municipal edge.
Labour and training anchors named by the submission: Edmonton institutions, Northwestern Polytechnic, Thompson Rivers University, BCIT, and the University of the Fraser Valley.
06How Warre & Vavasour helps
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07Sources
Official record, dated.
Facts on this page come from the documents below. Where sources disagree or a number exists only in news reporting, we say so or leave it off.
- Prime Minister of Canada — listing release 1 October 2026, Fort McMurray. Name change, Schedule 1 listing, equal Canada–Alberta ownership, ≥10% Indigenous equity, Pembina as private investor, Trans Mountain leading, 1 million b/d, conditions by 1 September 2027, next-year concept work.
- Government of Alberta — Pacific Link page Updated for the 1 October 2026 listing. Early construction “as early as 1 September 2027”, $18.3 million Alberta planning spend, AIOC ready for Indigenous co-ownership, July 2026 partners announcement, May 2026 Implementation Agreement.
- Pacific Link proponents — Newsfile release 1 October 2026. Trans Mountain will develop, construct, and operate; final route to be determined after further engineering and engagement.
- Alberta — submission to the Major Projects Office (PDF) Open Alberta dataset, issued 2 July 2026. Capacity, corridors, endpoints, cost, stage-gate plan, build scope, communities, Indigenous territory counts.
- Alberta — plain-language summary of the submission (PDF) Same dataset. Heavy crude, 1,200–1,250 km, terminals, camps, stockpile sites, yards, two corridors.
- Open Alberta dataset record Created 29 June 2026, modified 3 July 2026. Two PDF resources only. No published route geometry.
08Get the desk ready
The corridor will hire. The portal is not open yet.
Use the year to get the shop ready — tenders you can already bid, and a desk that works when this one lands.
Warre & Vavasour Ltd · Canmore, AB · Independent AI laboratory · Not a Pacific Link proponent