The latest plan to build an oil pipeline across the U.S.-Canadian border has got the backing of the White House, but it’s going to need more than a presidential signoff before it moves its first drop of oil.
The Bridger Pipeline expansion received a green light from President Donald Trump last week — checking an item off its to-do list that usually comes much later in the process. Now, it needs to lock in oil supplies in Canada, sign up buyers in the U.S., find connections from Wyoming to reach downstream markets and fend off the inevitable legal challenges.
It’s an ambitious agenda, and one the developer aims to finish in the next 15 months, when it plans to start construction so it can complete the work to get the pipeline operating before Trump leaves office.
That’s not impossible, according to energy experts, but would require all those tasks to be completed in a tight time frame — without any of the hiccups that almost always add time and costs to pipeline projects.
