Nisga’a get on board with LNG industry – BiV

Major milestones reached on gas pipelines needed for LNG industry, including agreement with major First Nations stakeholder

Dec. 2, 2014

B.C.’s fledgling liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry marked significant milestones last week with the environmental approval of two new gas pipelines and an agreement with the Nisga’a Lisims Government that will allow TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) to build a new $5 billion gas pipeline through Nisga’a land.

TransCanada plans to build a 900-kilometre pipeline from Hudson’s Hope in northeast B.C. to Lelu Island near Prince Rupert for Petronas, the Malaysian state-owned petrochemical company behind the Pacific NorthWest LNG project.

That pipeline project as well as the Westcoast Connector pipeline, to be built by Spectra Energy (NYSE:SE ), have received B.C. environmental assessment certificates. Petronas’ Lelu Island LNG plant also received a certificate.