Energy companies are expected to spend billions of dollars building natural gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals in northern B.C. during the next decade.
For small and medium-sized resource sector and construction firms in the north, tapping into the development of LNG is both an opportunity and a serious challenge.
“There is nobody in Prince George that builds pipelines. There is nobody in northern B.C. that builds pipelines. But there are people who work to support the projects,” Dick Mynen, president of TDB Consultants, a resource management company, said. “We’re a resource-based company — this is what we do. (But) in some ways we’re too small. Petronas doesn’t call up TDB Consulting.”
The Prince George-based TDB has been working for 27 years supporting the forestry and resource sectors, and currently employs about 50 people.
Arthur Williams – Vancouver Sun – June 27, 2014.
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