$10B Ksi Lisims LNG project in northwest B.C. receives environmental certificate – CBC

September 16, 2025

Province says project would employ hundreds of people just north of Prince Rupert, environmentalists dismayed

The Ksi Lisims LNG terminal project, about 80 kilometres north of Prince Rupert, B.C., has received a provincial environmental assessment certificate — a critical step for the megaproject despite concerns from environmentalists and hereditary chiefs in the area.

The Nisga’a Nation and Western LNG say the Ksi Lisims project would be a floating production facility capable of producing 12 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year. Its set to cost upwards of $10 billion, as of the last official estimate, with operations to begin in late 2028 or 2029.

In a statement late Monday afternoon, the province said the approval of the environmental assessment certificate came after a nearly four-year process by the Environmental Assessment Office (EAO).

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