The District of Kitimat Council Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, endorsed a campaign by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers asking for tax breaks of Liquified Natural Gas liquefaction facilities in the 2013 federal budget. A report to the Kitimat council said that on November 23, the mayors of Kitimat and Prince Rupert, sites for proposed […]
Both the province of British Columbia and the Haisla Nation have filed strong objections with the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel about the panel's plans to bypass Kitimat for the questioning and final argument phases of its examination of the controversial pipeline project. At present, the Joint Review Panel plans to hold questioning hearings in […]
The Conservative government is taking aim at environmental reviews of major resource projects and will impose time limits on those reviews from 12 to 24 months. In a briefing in the Ottawa budget lockup, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said, “The new timelines will apply to the Northern Gateway Pipeline.” Currently, major resource projects can take […]