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Volume 61 No. 03
Is LNG not all that?
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
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Harvard study casts doubt Cameron Orr The prospects for liquefied natural gas (LNG) may be good, but not that good, according to a report from Harvard University’s Belfer Center. The report, called Falling Short: A Reality Check for Global LNG Exports and authored by associate professor Leonardo Maugeri, is, naturally, heavily focused on the United States’ LNG prospects, but Canada is included in his projections. And long story short, Maugeri is more
confident in Nova Scotia-based Goldboro LNG in adding to LNG exports by 2020 for Canada than he is with west coast-based projects. “It has already secured a long-term customer (German E.On) for 20 years, starting in 2019, but had not received an export license as of November 2014. This is also the only scheme whose selling price formula is not oil-linked,” he writes in the report. On the west coast, “To circumvent some of the problems affect-
ing British Columbia, Canadian natural gas developers could send their natural gas to the US west coast, where it could be liquefied and shipped to Asia. But the fate of Oregon’s LNG schemes seems very uncertain in this decade,” writes Maugeri in his paper. Maugeri’s paper, however, does seem to put U.S. potential for LNG exports at a notably higher level than other countries. Australia, he writes, has the worst business case globally. Continued on page 6
Museum pitches preservation plan The museum is pitching the District on a special project called the Kitimat Preservation Project. Citing risks to its existing collections due to storage constraints, the museum board is proposing a fiveyear plan, funded over and above the regular museum budget. The plan, if successfully adopted, would see new storage space provided, new office space, and a plan made for the old fire trucks held in storage at the fire hall. In the museum’s submission to council on this, they point to the current storage of their collections, one at the Service Centre and another at a locker facility on Forest Avenue, as non-ideal as they are not climate controlled, and any breach or damage at those facilities could lose artifacts forever. “If there’s any kind of fire or flood that stuff’s going to lost,” said Museum Board Chair Robin Rowland. He said that through his own research efforts he knows the value of
properly maintaining records. Without properly maintained collections, critical information could end up being lost to time. He’s seen it happen before in other facilities. In the museum’s submission they also say with the number of retirees in town growing, the pace of donations to the museum’s collection is rising fast. Operationally, the museum proposes making the assistant curator a full-time position, and creating a short-term education/exhibition coordinator position to reduce the assistant curator’s workload in cataloging and storing artifacts. This plan, the museum explains, is a “stop-gap” measure until proper museum storage facilities are available, or a new museum is built. They say cost recovery from the sale and licensing of photographs once their collection has been entirely digitized will help offset costs before the project. Continued on page 2
The Kitimat Ice Demons may have lost the first match of the weekend on January 10 against the Smithers Steelheads 4 to 8, but the team regrouped for a 8 to 7 win the following afternoon. More about their weekend on page 12. Cameron Orr
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