{"id":150043,"date":"2025-09-17T09:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150043\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:03:21","slug":"b-c-green-lights-controversial-lng-megaproject-on-north-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150043\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. green lights controversial LNG megaproject on North Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

The B.C. government has greenlit a controversial LNG<\/a> megaproject on the North Coast.<\/p>\n

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The $20 billion Ksi Lisims LNG project will be located about 100 km north of Prince Rupert and will be powered through the BC Hydro grid.<\/p>\n

It is also a partnership between the Nisga\u2019a First Nation, Texas-based Western LNG and Rockies LNG Limited.<\/p>\n

Both the provincial government and the federal government have signed off on the facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nisga\u2019a people are a remarkable and dramatic example of strength and resilience and fortitude and their work in government and in economic development is a testament to that,\u201d B.C. Premier David Eby said at a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project will create 800 jobs during construction, more than 200 jobs ongoing at the site, $17 billion in contribution to the Canadian economy over the lifetime of the project.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt will help young people build a future in the Northwest. It creates education, training, and other opportunities that wouldn\u2019t exist in the absence of this project. It helps keep Nisga\u2019a people on their land connected to their communities with employment and cultural opportunities that would not otherwise be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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However, four of six other First Nations asked to provide consent did not grant it, and numerous environmental groups are also opposed.<\/p>\n

In a statement on its website, Ecojustice, on behalf of the Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research, the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition, and the Wilderness Committee, said it participated in several public comment periods<\/a> ahead of the decision, \u201cpointing out serious flaws with the assessment of the Ksi Lisims LNG project, including a failure to adequately assess its climate impacts and the effects of powering the project with electricity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ecojustice lawyer, Imalka Nilmalgoda, said, \u201cThe Ksi Lisims LNG project, which will export 33 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year, is fundamentally at odds with B.C.\u2019s claims to be a climate leader. Environmental assessment laws exist to bring transparency and rigour to assessing the impacts of major projects, but we are not seeing that in the Ksi Lisims decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eby says he has \u201cgreat faith\u201d in the Nisga\u2019a and its president Eva Clayton to deliver support through an \u201copen spirit of engagement\u201d with the other First Nations, adding that the project was designed to minimize environmental impacts.<\/p>\n

\u201cBritish Columbians are not going to stand by and watch Donald Trump build a dirty LNG facility on the coast of Alaska when we have the opportunity to build a low-carbon LNG facility partnership with Indigenous people in a way that provides billions of dollars for Canadians and British Columbians,\u201d Eby said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to build this country and we\u2019re going to do it right and we want to make sure that it is Canadian products making it to market, supporting Canadians.\u201d<\/p>\n

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