The Canadian Crown corporation that controls the Trans Mountain oil pipeline booked over $20 million in interest expenses in a single month.

It feels like an instant replay of the project’s last NEB review, which concluded in 2016. That review and the resulting federal cabinet approval of the pipeline and tanker project resulted in 15 legal challenges that led to a two-week hearing at the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA). The result? The court quashed the federal approval

The Trans Mountain pipeline has generated $70 million in earnings since it was bought by the Canadian government, Finance Minister Bill Morneau's fiscal update revealed Wednesday.

Canada's spy agency says many members of the environmental and Indigenous communities see the federal purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline as a betrayal, and suggests that could intensify opposition to expanding the project.