The Prince Rupert gas pipeline doesn’t pass today’s health standards – National Observer
November 22, 2024
On November 25, B.C.’s environmental assessment (EA) commission will rule on whether an environmental assessment certificate issued a decade ago for construction of the Prince Rupert Gas pipeline, should require a new, updated EA certificate before proceeding.
The project proposes construction of an 800-kilometre pipeline to transport gas from northeast B.C. to the Ksi Lisims LNG plant near the mouth of the Nass River on the province’s northwest coast.
Originally owned by TC Energy, this pipeline project never got off the ground and was purchased by the Nisga’a Nation and Texas-based Western LNG in March 2024. In the absence of demonstrating “substantive progress” in project development – something the new proponents are scrambling to do – the EA would automatically expire next month.
