Category: Kitimat

Gas Flaring worldwide reaches record levels: just released World Bank report.

The annual World Bank Global Gas Flaring report for 2026 reveals that global gas flaring rose for the third consecutive year in 2025, reaching 167 billion cubic meters (bcm), the highest recorded level since 2019. The gas wastefully burned could have powered homes and industries, created jobs, reduced import bills, and extended electricity access and […]

Alberta repeats the old dumb pipeline route along the Skeena River

The northern bitumen pipeline wars could be about to begin all over again Documents obtained by CBC News   in the story Alberta considering 3 oil pipeline routes through northern B.C., the documents show show Alberta’s proposed pipeline routes through northern British Columbia. The pipelines would reach ports on the coast, including Prince Rupert and farther […]

BC, Ottawa agree to “enhanced investment co-operation” for LNG Canada Phase 2

A news release from Premier David Eby says that “the Government of Canada, the Government of British Columbia and LNG Canada reached agreement on enhanced investment co-operation and actions to collectively progress closure of final items to support a potential 2026 Final Investment Decision (FID) of LNG Canada's proposed Phase 2 expansion, a key national […]

LNG flare tip is cracked. Repairs slated for mid June

    A crack developed in LNG Canada’s  warm/wet flare tip on February 18, followed by another five days later, according to a Canadian Press report based on documents obtained by University of Victoria air quality researcher Laura Minet under a freedom of information request. Work to replace that component is set to begin in […]

Giant funds making billion dollar bids for stake in LNG Canada: reports

Three of the world’s biggest asset management funds are making multibillion dollar bids for a stake in LNG Canada, Reuters is reporting. The companies are Apollo Global Management, Blackstone  and ​KKR, Reuters said, quoting anonymous sources. Shell and the three companies would not comment to Reuters on the report. If the deal goes through it […]

Flare exceeded permit volume by an average of 40 times, documents show

LNG Canada flared an average of 40 times more gas than its permits allow for warm/wet and cold/dry flares (involved in the acid gas removal and liquefaction processes) during the last three months of 2025 and the first month of 2026, according to documents recently obtained by Canadian Physicians for Environment (CAPE) from the BC […]

Former Kitimat mayor Joanne Monaghan has died

The District of Kitimat announced March 26, 2026 that former mayor Joanne Monaghan has died. Photogallery In memory of Joanne Monaghan The news release from the District reads. he District of Kitimat is saddened to learn of the passing of former Kitimat Mayor Joanne Monaghan. Joanne joined Kitimat Council in 1980 as Alderman (a title […]

Jeffery Epstein’s bank tipped him and others about future LNG development in Kitimat, Justice Dept. files reveal

In 2011, J. P. Morgan Chase, Jeffery Epstein’s bank, tipped him and others about future LNG development in Kitimat,  US Justice Dept files reveal. The Justice Department’s wide ranging release of files on convicted sex predator Jeffrey Epstein has yielded a surprising footnote, the first hints of liquefied natural gas development in Kitimat. Epstein was […]

Danielle Smith rules out Kitimat for bitumen pipeline: CBC

CBC news reports from the Premier's conference that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters Thursday that she is not considering Kitimat, B.C., as a port for the proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as detailed in an agreement with Ottawa. Smith said she's weighing other options for the route, saying 'we're willing to go […]