A resource finding its routes – Resource Works

How B.C. built one of the world’s great energy systems, and why it still isn’t finished

There are two places that define British Columbia’s natural gas future, and they could hardly be more different from each other.

The first is a stretch of northeast B.C. that most people in this province couldn’t place on a map without help. It sits beneath the Peace River country, straddling the Alberta border, and for most of recorded history it was simply farmland, boreal forest, and cold. The Montney formation doesn’t announce itself. There are no visible signs of what lies beneath. You drive through it, if you ever do, without any particular sense that you are passing over one of the largest natural gas resources in North America.

The second is Kitimat, a town on the Douglas Channel that most British Columbians know only as the endpoint of arguments. For years — decades, really — Kitimat existed in public conversation almost entirely as a destination: the place where the pipelines were trying to go, the location of the terminal, the spot on the map that opponents circled in red. A coastal story, a shipping story, a tankers-on-the-water story.

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