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FRIDAY, February 6, 2015
Volume 9 Issue 31
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TERRACE - Carolyn DeFreitas (left) plays a literacy game with Amber Beck at the Community Family Literary Day event held at Suwilaawks on Jan. 31. DeFreitas was at the Terrace Public Library station which focused on a word-matching exercise.
KITIMAT - The Douglas Channel Energy project, a floating LNG plant for Kitimat, which fizzled over the last couple of years, has been reborn under the ownership of a consortium which includes Pacific Northern Gas parent company AltaGas. Now the consortium — which is officially called AltaGas Idemitsu Joint Venture Limited Partnership (AIJVLP) — says they have full ownership of the Douglas Channel LNG project and are aiming for a final investment decision on its project by the fourth quarter this year, with a forecasted operational date of sometime in 2018. The project is barge-based, where natural gas will be processed on the water, and delivered on the PNG line, which notably will directly benefit individual consumers as it will lower the delivery cost for gas to homes. The land needed for this proposal, District Lot 99, is along the west side of the channel, and the partners have already secured the site with a long-term lease with the Haisla. AltaGas’s Director of Financing and Communications Jess Nieukerk said this project’s direct benefit to the community, or in fact all customers of Pacific Northern Gas, is that by using up the volume capacity on the line, natural gas prices should drop due to a reduced delivery charge. He said developing the project would require constructing an 8km line of pipe from the existing line which would employ up to 50 people. He said it’s too early to know what the long-term, operational employment numbers would be. This project would export a project 550,000 tonnes a year of LNG, making it substantially smaller than other projects being considered. Meanwhile the company is also seeking a new export licence, which the previous iteration of this project had but has since expired. Nieukerk said they can either apply for a new one or could petition to have the original permit amended to include the new partners. This project could also potentially tie in to another AltaGas proposed project called Triton LNG, which would be built with the same model. The project had been eyeing locations in Kitimat and Prince Rupert but with Douglas Channel LNG potentially moving forward the site would allow for the simultaneous development of Triton, which would have a higher export volume as well. The Japanese company Indemitsu, which is a partner with AltaGas in the Douglas Channel LNG consortium, is also a partner with AltaGas in the Aurora LNG project. Filling the need for gas with this project would require twinning the existing Pacific Northern Gas pipeline.
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