Oil prices crumbled. Protesters rumbled. But Kinder Morgan Canada president Ian Anderson stayed confident as his firm's lawyer, Shawn Denstedt, presented his final argument in the case for the approval of the expansion of its Trans Mountain Pipeline. "Everybody's still thinking long-term," Anderson said in an interview. Nearly 600,000 bbls/d in shipping commitments still drove the US$5.4-billion project. The target for completing the new capacity on the Edmonton-Vancouver oil conduit was still 2019. The performance in the hearings hall of the National Energy Board's Calgary headquarters was in the best tradition of Canadian petroleum. Industry records are studded with models of keeping calm and remaining adaptable.
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