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I suppose all the Alberta government can do at this point is shrug.

Which is pretty much what it did this week when news came of more potential bad news for the planned expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.

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The project might end up costing $1.9 billion more and take 12 months longer to complete than planned.

Oh, come on.

Can’t this project catch a break?

It’s been plagued by delays, protests, and political interference from the British Columbia government. It was so close to death it had to be saved by the federal government that agreed to buy the existing Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5 billion — and then committed to invest another $7.4 billion twinning the pipeline to triple its capacity to ship oilsands bitumen to the West Coast for transport overseas.

And now this.

The gloomy forecast was included in documents filed Tuesday with the United States government by the pipeline’s current owner, Texas-based Kinder Morgan, which hopes to have the sale to the Canadian government approved in September.