The British Columbia Environmental Assessment Office (BC EAO) has given the thumbs up to Chevron Corp. and Woodside Energy’s Kitimat LNG cooling and export facility project near Kitimat. In a letter dated Sept. 8, Executive Director Peter Craven noted the project has been “substantially started.”
The project will consist of the development of natural gas resources in the Liard and Horn River Basins in Northeast B.C., transportation of that gas across northern B.C. via a third party pipeline and the Pacific Trail Pipeline to Kitimat on the west coast. A liquefaction facility at Bish Cove near Kitimat will cool the gas into a liquid for shipping to overseas markets.
Under the B.C. Environmental Assessment Act, a project must be “substantially started” at least three years, and not more than five years after an environmental certificate is issued.
Mike Carter – Alaska Highway News – September 10, 2015.
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