Alberta's got a new plan for a southern pipeline to B.C.'s coast — it still won't be easy
An already heavily trafficked B.C. estuary is under pressure to industrialize more for the proposed project. Shahin Dashtgard, a sedimentologist from Simon Fraser University, holds an open palmful of muddied sand from the Fraser Valley in Delta, B.C. This material, known as sub-surface, is weak, loose and water saturated, and it's one of the main challenges of building Alberta's proposed...