Blog: Year-end updates on LNG in BC
Cedar LNG set for construction to start From the Haisla Nation’s Cedar LNG project (pictures above): Construction has focussed on site preparation and clearing work to prepare for a full construction season in 2025. “In addition to site-clearing work, important environmental management measures have been implemented on site, including sediment and erosion control measures.” Cedar…
Blog: Where will BC and LNG find new power?
As LNG Canada’s partners look at potential Phase Two expansion, doubling their LNG output, they’d hope to use electrical power for their processes. And switching Phase One to electricity from BC Hydro (rather than burning some of the natural gas to generate power) is on many a wish-list. Meanwhile, Woodfibre LNG plans for its compressors…
News: BC Hydro OKs wind projects with Indigenous partners
Nine of 21 clean-energy projects submitted to BC Hydro in its last ‘call for power’ have been accepted, and all have First Nations partners. Eight of the nine will have 51% equity ownership. And Hydro adds: “This represents $2.5 billion to $3 billion of ownership by First Nations in new renewable-energy projects in the province.”…
Blog: LNG demand is strong, and BC’s is cleaner
Opponents of liquefied natural gas (LNG) development lost no time in urging the new British Columbia government to squash the LNG industry. The latest pitch avoided the old environmental eco-message: “If we want a liveable planet for ourselves, future generations and countless other species, we cannot build any more fossil fuel projects anywhere. Not one.”…
Blog: Emissions cap? ‘I’m pissed.’ And Alberta’s premier is not alone. . . .
Ottawa bills its planned emissions cap on oil and gas as “limiting pollution, driving innovation, and creating jobs.” That’s not at all what critics see. They forecast instead “lower production, lower exports, fewer jobs, lower GDP, and less revenues to governments to fund critical infrastructure and social programs on which Canadians rely.” That was from Lisa…