“My personal belief is that you look at the optimization of your existing pipelines, it’s the first thing you do, because it’s the easiest thing to do,” Maki said in an interview with CTV News Chief Political Correspondent Vassy Kapelos in Burnaby, B.C., on Tuesday.
“It’s much harder to build another TMX somewhere,” he added. “And for that reason, optimize the kit that you have, which you can do in steps over time, and then add capacity as it’s needed, and then you have time to evaluate the bigger issue, which is, do you need another pipeline somewhere?..