B-C has extended the state of emergency until December 14th to ensure emergency services have all the resources they need after flooding devastated the province earlier this month. It has also extended its order limiting purchases of fuel to 30 litres until the same date, when the Trans Mountain pipeline is back online. Energy Minister Bruce Ralston says the pipeline provides most of the fuel for B-C’s Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island and supplies are now being shipped in by rail from Alberta and on barges from the United States. He says Trans Mountain is making sure the pipeline is safe to operate before it starts again.
