On May 27, 2026 at a forum in Kitimat called “What Are the Health Harms of Flaring from LNG?” Kitimat resident and registered nurse Ankur Patel told the audience, “An experiment[is] being done in our community and in ways that we have never seen before. This industry is developed in a way that's […]
Shell says it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ARC Resources Ltd, a Calgary based energy company focused on the Montney shale basin in British Columbia and Alberta. The deal is worth $22 billion Canadian, ($13.6 billion US in cash and shares) and includes taking over ARC’s debts. Financial analysts report that offer […]
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 […]
Energy media organizations, mostly based in Houston, Texas, report that LNG Canada is working to increase production as the war with Iran strangles international energy shipping. The information is based on figures from the financial analysts including LSEG which provides of financial markets infrastructure and delivers financial data, analytics, news and index products to 44,000+ […]
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 […]
The energy media, including Reuters and Upstream Online are reporting that both Shell and Mitsubishi are looking to possibly sell off significant portions of their stake in LNG Canada. Petronas, another of the partners in LNG Canada, has already sold off 20 per cent of its stake in the project to a liquified natural gas […]
With today's announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Canadian federal government and the government of Alberta, dicussions which excluded British Columbia and projects a new bitumen pipeline across northwest British Columbia, I am reviving Northwest Coast Energy News on a limited basis. I do not intend to do daily coverage as I did […]
A welded and sculpted metal tree created by two Grade 12 students in memory of Canada's murdered and missing indigenous women and girls was unveiled in the lobby of the Kitimat Valley Institute on Friday, October 4, 2109, where it will be on permanent display. The tree was created by Trinity Harry, 17, Ojibwa Nation, […]
LNG Canada today short listed two companies, LNG BC Contractors, a partnership of TechnipFMC plc and KBR, Inc. and the partnership of JGC Corporation and Fluor Corporation on the short list to build the proposed LNG Canada facility in Kitimat. LNG Canada said their commercial negotiations to commence immediately LNG Canada news release: Vancouver, […]
LNG Canada says the Kitimat liquified natural gas project “has been delayed and not cancelled” with a Final Investment Decision possible in the next 18 to 24 months, Director of External Relations Susannah Pierce told a company sponsored community pizza party at Riverlodge on Tuesday October 18, 2016. She paid tribute to the support for […]