The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday edition that as Alberta, Saskatchewan and the oil and gas industry push for a new pipeline to transport fossil fuels to coastal ports for export, a new analysis from the Canada Energy Regulator shows there is still excess capacity on the expanded Trans Mountain system. The Globe's Emma Graney writes that over all, oil export pipeline capacity from Western Canada continues to be highly utilized, the CER says, with production from the oil sands only projected to increase. Shippers with long-term contracts make up the bulk of Trans Mountain's customers. Numbers from the CER show they have taken advantage of the newly opened capacity, filling roughly 99 per cent of their allotted space each month. The Trans Mountain expansion, the most expensive infrastructure project in Canadian history, began as an attempt to provide a simple transport route to the West Coast for growing oil production. A dozen years and $34-billion later, the government-owned pipeline can carry another 590,000 barrels a day from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C. Light oil and refined products are being delivered to Burnaby, mostly to serve Parkland's refinery there and Suncor Energy's Burrard Products Terminal.