Although Keystone XL has been cancelled, all Canadians remain owner of the Trans Mountain pipeline and its expansion project, which the federal government acquired in 2018 for $4.4 billion. But Ottawa’s plan was always to eventually divest of the Trans Mountain pipeline system, and that’s where oil and gas executive Joe Dion hopes his group can play a part. Dion, CEO of the Western Indigenous Pipeline Group (WIPG), says a consortium of First Nations groups along the existing Trans Mountain right-of-way have backing from “a tier one pipeline company” and are crafting an offer to re-privatize the pipeline. “[Keystone XL’s cancellation] places a lot more value on Trans Mountain where we’re still pursuing buying it—that’s the plan, to buy the whole works,” Dion told The Epoch Times. “Whoever decides to partner with us would obviously be a part of it.” While Dion declined to name the pipeline firm, he said there’s …