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TERRACE - John Wiebenga, far left, and Neil Lindseth, third from the left, from the Terrace Churches Food Bank receive a $500 donation from Skeena Valley Farmer’s Market directors Denise Coulter, second from left, and Norm Frank, far right. The market had their very successful Christmas Craft Show at the Sportsplex Saturday, November 24th. Optional admission to the Craft Show was a non-perishable food item. More than 900 pounds of food was received during the 6 1/2 hour sale. The $500 donation was from raffle ticket proceeds and the prizes were three seperate baskets comprised of vendors hand made gifts.The lucky winners were: R. Keswick, K. Helie and N. Reidy of Terrace.
Big hitter joins northwest LNG parade By Staff Writer
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KITIMAT - The northwestern LNG situation just got a lot more interesting now that Chevron Canada has bought into the Pacific Trails Pipeline and accompanying LNG plant called Kitimat LNG. It did so just before Christmas by buying a majority of the 30 per cent each that Encana and EOG Resources held in the project. Apache, the third major player of the original group, remains but it has now increased its 40 per cent of the project to 50 per cent. The new 50/50 partnership will essentially see Apache developing gas supplies through 644,000 acres in the Horn River
and Liard basins with Chevron being responsible for the pipeline and plant. The project has already received environmental certification and and export licence but an expected full on construction announcement originally thought to have been made in 2012 did not materialize. A construction announcement was based on contracts to sell LNG but none were signed. Reports said there was difficulty in persuading Asian customers to pay a price needed for the project to be profitable. “This agreement is a milestone for two principal reasons: Chevron is the premier LNG developer in the world today with longstanding
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relationships in key Asian markets, and the new structure will enable Apache to unlock the tremendous potential at Liard, one of the most prolific shale gas basins in North America,” said G. Steven Farris, Apache’s chairman and chief executive officer in a press release. Even without a formal construction start, Kitimat LNG is currently completing frontend engineering and design, and early site work is under way. Current plans call for two liquefaction facilities within the plant space, each with expected capacity of five million tons of LNG per year (about 750 million cubic feet of gas per day). Kitimat LNG’s export licence is good for 20 years.
The project has significant backing from the Haisla First Nation which stands to gain a substantial economic benefit. Plant facilities would be located on Haisla land and annual payments would be made to the Haisla. Other native groups also approve of the project but a Wet’suwet’en clan near Smithers objects. Kitimat LNG is one of four large pipeline and plant projects in the works in the northwest. Out of the four, it is the most advanced thanks to environmental and export approval. A smaller project would use the capacity of the existing Pacific Northern Gas.
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