Fortune Creek Gas Plant Gets Approval
Thursday, October 10, 2013 @ 3:53 AM
Fort Nelson, B.C. – The Province has given a conditional Environmental Assessment Certificate
to the Fortune Creek Gas Plant that is to be built about 110 kms north of Fort Nelson in the
Horn River Basin.
There are 52 conditions that must be met if the certificate is to remain valid. Some of the key conditions are:
* Design the project to be carbon-capture ready, by capturing and indefinitely storing emissions underground;
* Use gas turbine generators with heat recovery to produce electricity for use at the project site;
* Minimize the burning of salvageable timber to lower GHG emissions; and
* Develop and implement a Caribou Mitigation and Monitoring Plan and a Wildlife Protection and Monitoring Plan
with involvement from First Nations and Aboriginal groups.
The proponents, Quicksilver Resources, plans to prepare the raw natural gas for transport to market at the Fortune Creek Gas Plant.
The project will be developed in phases, with the first phase having the ability to process 4.25 million standard cubic metres of gas per day.
When further phases have been developed the plant will be able to produce up to 16.9 million cubic meters of gas per day.
Comments
Phase 1, $175 million. Quite amazing just how much money is out there investing in our oil and gas industry north of the Pine Pass
I think its a bit more than 175 million. I don’t think it would be 1.75 billion. But I would say it will be all of 1/2 billion to get it started.
Yes, Quietly it is the natural gas industry that is fueling our economy in the north.
Carbon capture a huge wast of money for what what end result? It is a tecknology that is undeveloped and adds a huge expense for no end result.
What happens if all that so called captured plant fertilizer finds it way to the surface in a populated area and displaces the oxygen?
C02 + climate change = pseudo science.
Quiet all right. maybe the mayor should ‘twin cities’ with Kota Kinabalu in Indonesia (head office for Petronas). $5 Billion spent to buy the gas lands up north, $5 Billion for a pipeline and $11 Billion for the LNG plant…Talk about a financial shot in the arm for central and northern BC. The spinoffs, even in PG will be incredible.
“Quietly it is the natural gas industry that is fueling our economy in the north. “
No kidding. Too bad that most people in PG have no idea about natural gas, oil, or pipelines… except what the media spoon feeds them.
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