Indigenous investors are lining up to get financially involved in the multi-billion dollar Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

The $4.5 billion dollars project, purchased by the federal government, is currently on hold.

The pipeline, if built, will see a large increase in the amount of bitumen flowing from the Alberta tar sands to the B.C. coast.

Two consortiums have announced an interesting in buying all, or part of the pipeline and now a third group has joined the discussion.

The Alberta based Iron Coalition wants to buy at least a 50 per cent stake in the pipeline.

The coalition says that 30 Indigenous and Metis organizations in Alberta want to invest.

Chris Stewart Video Journalist / Edmonton Chris Stewart has been in the media for 20 years. He has worked at CBC, Global and CTV as a news camera operator and editor. Chris joined APTN in 2012 in the Saskatoon Bureau and moved to APTN Edmonton bureau in 2015 as a Videojournalist.

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