Published On Dec 9, 2020
Ever since the Leduc oil strike of 1947, the crude has been flowing fast from oil wells in Alberta. To transport it to markets where it's needed, the 718-mile-long (1,150 km) Trans Mountain Pipeline was engineered and built. Workers blasted through rock, drained swampland and dug a tunnel under the Fraser River, before carefully welding, wrapping and laying down the sections of pipe. In this 1953 report from the CBC-TV program Newsmagazine, the almost $100 million pipeline is a good-news story for oil-hungry markets.
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