Indigenous leaders excited for Cedar LNG project in Kitimat – Vancouver Is Awesome
Project proponents heading into the homestretch to create a floating liquid natural gas export facility to serve Asian markets and offer coal alternative
The need for more facilities to export liquid natural gas from Canada to Asian markets was never more apparent to Karen Ogen than when she went on a tour of China and saw cities shrouded in a permanent haze from coal smoke.
That served as a reminder to Ogen, CEO of the First Nations LNG Alliance, why the world needs the Cedar LNG project, a $3.2 billion electrified floating facility proposed for Haisla Nation land along the Douglas Channel near Kitimat.
“They burn a lot of coal in China and we need to get them off of coal to a cleaner energy, which is LNG,” said Ogen, who spoke Wednesday at the BC Natural Resources Forum.
“B.C. and Canada have an opportunity. We have natural resources that the rest of the world wants and needs and we have the solution, so B.C. needs to get on board. Right now LNG is being shipped to the States and they are turning around and selling it and no economic benefits are coming back to B.C .or Canada, and we need to change that.
