Trans Mountain is providing another $200,000 to the City of Kamloops, as compensation for “interruption to Kenna Cartwright Park use.”

That new money was announced to Kamloops city councillors this afternoon by Trans Mountain spokesperson Kate Stebbing.

The pipeline expansion goes through a section of the park which is the largest municipal park in B.C.

“And this is out of our awareness and understanding that there are park impacts to use, and to the land base, in that area,” Stebbing told council.

She says right-of-way preparation is almost done in Kenna Cartwright, which involves grading the land, clearing trees and putting in fencing and matting, before trenches are dug and pipe gets put in.

It’s not yet known how the city will use that money.

In 2015, the Trans Mountain and the City of Kamloops negotiated a community benefits agreement, which provided the city with a one-time payment of $700,000. It also spent $170,000 this year to build a new dog park on Aviation Way, near the Kamloops Airport. That was in lieu of needing to close the Ord Road dog park during pipeline construction.

The Crown corporation also says it will be pay more than $3 million in taxes to the City of Kamloops each year when the pipeline is expansion is finished. This year, it paid about $2 million in taxes to the city; a more exact number will be provided shortly to NL News.