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TERRACE - Adam Yawrenko performs the Sisyphean task of clearing snow outside his home on Graham Ave. during the mega storm earlier this week. After this photo was taken around 12 p.m. on Dec. 6 the snow kept blasting all day.
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No oil in LNG pipelines, says gov’t By Josh Massey THE NORTHERN CONNECTOR
TERRACE - Those critical of the planned LNG industry have one less argument in their toolbox. Or so it would seem now that the BC government has introduced a new regulation to prevent LNG pipelines from being converted for oil transport, a concern expressed by several groups since 2013. A release from the Ministry of Natural Gas Development says the new regulation will ease worries “expressed during environmental assessments and by First Nations about the long-term pipeline use.” Diluted bitumen is consid-
ered more hazardous in the case of a spill than gas which disperses into the air and some feared that acceptance of gas pipelines could be parlayed into a thumbs up to bitumen pipelines down the road. Attached to the Oil and Gas Activities Act, the new regulation “prohibits the BC Oil and Gas Commission from permitting any conversion of a natural gas pipeline supplying an LNG facility,” says the government release. But concerned groups say this new regulation falls short. A more permanent measure would be to actually legislate the new rule within the Oil and Gas Activities Act, says Greg Knox of SkeenaWild Conservation Trust.
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Knox points to a May 2014 letter from Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman saying the government was examining this option. Addressed to the Office of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation, Coleman wrote that “we are working on potential preferred legal mechanism, including through legislation, to prohibit potential pipeline conversions.” Knox said First Nations and organizations such as his see the new regulation as backing down from stronger, longer term measures hinted at in the letter. He said government should make the regulation law if it wants to fully ease the concerns of those worried about oil coming through the
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lines in the long term. “It was easy for the government to put in this regulation, therefore it is easy to undo,” said Knox. “There are several natural gas pipelines in North America that have been converted to oil pipelines in the past so it is feasible and done sometimes,” said Knox. “We were concerned that if companies couldn’t get natural gas flowing through their lines that they might be looking to put bitumen and oil through.” The regulation applies to all six of the major pipelines proposed for transporting natural gas from shale deposits in the northeast to planned export facilities on the coast.