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TERRACE - Premier Christy Clark examines a gift bag containing a raku pottery Kermodei bear being presented by Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce president Janice Shaben. Clark spoke at a Terrace luncheon hosted by the chamber April 4. She toured Northwest Community College in Terrace and visited Kitimat the same day.
Assessments get underway for LNG projects in northwestern region By Tom Fletcher THE NORTHERN CONNECTOR
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KITIMAT - A partnership led by Shell Canada has filed for environmental assessment of a largescale liquefied natural gas export facility at Kitimat, the latest step in a proposed energy megaproject for northern B.C. The filing includes a letter from the B.C. government asking Ottawa to delegate the assessment to provincial authorities, along with aboriginal consultation. The federal government must first determine if a federal review is required, and then if it
can be conducted by the province. Called LNG Canada, the project is a partnership of Shell, Korea Gas, Mitsubishi Corp. and PetroChina. The proposal has already received a federal export licence that allows export of up to 24 million tonnes of LNG per year for 25 years. The application describes a total of four LNG processing lines at a site near the Rio Tinto Alcan aluminum smelter, and a marine terminal on Douglas Channel at a site formerly used as a methanol export facility. LNG Canada plans to start
construction in 2015. In July 2012, LNG Canada announced a partnership with TransCanada Corp. to build a $4 billion pipeline from shale gas fields near Dawson Creek to Kitimat to supply the LNG plant. The project description leaves open the choice of electricity supply, with one option being a gas-fired generating station capable of 200 megawatts or more. The provincial government has acknowledged that supplying electricity for LNG plants is an issue. Also filing is the proposed Pacific Northwest LNG project set
for Lelu Island near Prince Rupert. This is a partnership of Malaysian government corporation Petronas and Progress Energy. A pipeline route has yet to be determined. Other LNG projects include: • The BC LNG Co-Op, proposed by the Tatham family of Texas and the Haisla for Kitimat • Kitimat LNG, a partnership of Chevron Canada and Apache Corp. for Bish Cove, on Haisla Nation reserve property • British Gas Group, with port facilities at Ridley Island, Prince Rupert and a pipeline operated by Spectra Energy.
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