LNG Project Up for Discussion
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 @ 3:52 AM
Proposed outline of LNG project on Lelu Island – image courtesy Pacific Northwest LNG
Prince Rupert, B.C.- The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency is looking for input on the proposed Pacific Northwest LNG Project.
This project would see a natural gas liquefaction plant and terminal located on Lelu Island, south east of Ridley Island at Prince Rupert.
The plan proposes a site that can produce 18 million tonnes of LNG annually, and a loading terminal that would service 350 ships a year. The liquefied natural gas would be shipped to Asian markets.
The Environmental Assessment Agency c needs to get feedback first, before deciding if a federal environmental assessment is required for the project.
Written comments must be submitted by March 11, 2013 to:
Pacific Northwest LNG Project
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
410-701 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V7Y 1C6
Tel.: 604-666-2431
Fax: 604-666-6990
GNLPacificNorthwestLNG@ceaa-acee.gc.ca
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
410-701 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V7Y 1C6
Tel.: 604-666-2431
Fax: 604-666-6990
GNLPacificNorthwestLNG@ceaa-acee.gc.ca
Comments
what happenes if LNG spills into the ocean
Once the election is over I expect a lot of these **great** proposals will disappear.
As far as Natural Gas Exports go., BC is a day late and a dollar short. The only way we would be able to compete, is if BC Taxpayers foot the bill for all the infrastructure, which would cost us hundreds of millions, if not billions.
Not likely to happen. Even if we did get just one plant it would not be up and running until sometime after 2018, and even that date is debatable.
It would take a minimum of 20 new ships to service 350 trips per year.
So lets get down to some **nitty gritty** If BC is going to foot the bill for most of the infrastructure on this type of a project, then why don’t we get the contracts for building the ships???
If in fact you end up with 5 plants, you would be looking at approx. 100 new ships. Seems like a huge job creation program to me.
Oh; right. The ships will be built by the Countries that are importing the **cheap gas** so that they will get all the benefits, and we British Columbians, will get the opportunity to pay for it all.
These plants are not a good idea at all. Better to leave the gas in the ground for future generations, or for a better deal, than sell out in the short term in a thinly veiled attempt to get re-elected .
With the new concerns about uranium being released into the gas from the fracking process and the BC shale being high in uranium… we should be studying this before we go head first into a system that locks us into the fracking process thereby polluting our water ways with heavy metals from the fracking process. If we don’t have enough clean gas than maybe we should be saving that for future generations.
Gas, oil, and hydro reserves are essentially like a central bank that provides liquidity to an economy. We can retain the wealth it creates to ensure we have a productivity competitive advantage at home, or we can export it all so that multinational corporations can translate this into a competitive advantage for our trading partners. They say the buy off for us is the tax revenue it generates and some jobs… but what are the real costs, both environmentally and economically through inflation and loss of productivity advantage in the world markets?
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