The elected council of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation have signed an agreement with British Columbia for the proposed Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline project, a news release from the province says. The news release says: The Wet'suwet'en First Nation will receive approximately $2.8 million from the Province at three different stages in the CGL project: $464,000 upon […]
Chevron is sticking with the Kitimat LNG project but won't make a Final Investment Decision until it has signed sales and purchase agreements for between 60 and 70 per cent of the natural gas, Chevron’s vice-chairman and executive vice-president of upstream operations, George Kirkland told investment analysts in a conference call Friday. Kirkland said that […]
A second floating liquified natural gas terminal may be planned for Kitimat, Northwest Coast Energy News has learned. According to multiple sources in Kitimat, Altagas, the parent company of Pacific Northern Gas plans the terminal at the old log sort site on Douglas Channel, where the barge carrying the liquifaction equipment would likely be moored […]
TransCanada plans a rugged over-mountain route for its proposed Coastal Gaslink pipeline to the Shell Canada liquified natural gas project in Kitimat, BC, company officials said Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, in two presentations, one to District of Kitimat Council and a second at a community town hall briefing. The pipeline would initially carry 1.7 […]
Enbridge is striking back against the First Nations and intervenors who oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline and marine terminal projects by filing questions that those groups must answer as part of the Joint Review Process. On May 11, 2012, Enbridge filed questions with 24 organizations, and from the questions, it appears that Enbridge isn't just […]
Shell Canada and its Asian partners have chosen TransCanada Corporation to design, build, own and operate the proposed natural gas pipline to Kitimat, now called the Coastal GasLink project. The estimated $4-billion pipeline will transport natural gas from the Montney gas-producing region near Dawson Creek, in northeastern British Columbia to the proposed natural gas export […]
A couple from Vancouver, who refused to give their names, unfurl an anti-Pacific Trails Pipeline banner at the British Columbia legislature in Victoria, Sunday, April 15, 2012. The man said he against all pipelines and that he was supporting the Wet'suwet'en First Nation. About 1,000 people marched through downtown Victoria to oppose the Enbridge Northern […]
The Joint Review Panel has ruled that it doesn't have to include possible plans by Enbridge to add a natural gas pipeline to to the Northern Gateway project in its consideration of the bitumen pipeline. Since the JRP has no evidence at the moment to suggest that Enbridge has such a project “in sufficient planning […]
Another pipeline debate is about to open in the northwest. This time for changes to the Pacific Trails (natural gas) Pipeline, that will run from Summit Lake, just outside Prince George, to Kitimat. Public information meetings will be held in Terrace, Houston, Burns Lake and Vanderhoof in the next couple of weeks. The PTP runs […]
Just who is interfering with the fairness of the Northern Gateway Joint Review panel hearings? Almost every day since the hearings began in Kitamaat Village, intervenors have raised questions about the fairness of the hearings, especially after Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver began attacking what they called “foreign radicals,” the […]