Posted: Feb 20, 2021 9:00 AM PT | Last Updated: February 20
Coastal GasLink says the pipeline s trenchless water crossing on the Kitimat River was constructed by installing pipe directly under the waterway. (Submitted by Coastal GasLink)
A major B.C. pipeline will cross about 625 streams, creeks, rivers and lakes, many of them fish bearing, during construction of one of the largest private sector projects in Canadian history, according to the company building it.
The $6.6-billion pipeline is designed to carry natural gas, obtained by hydraulic fracturing also known as fracking in northeastern B.C., to a $40-billion LNG terminal on the province s North Coast for export to Asia.
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. SHARES Ginger Gosnell-Myers says she and other Nisga’a citizens are in the dark about what their leadership is doing. ‘We don’t always understand what’s happening until there’s a signing agreement about to be announced.’
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Expectations of an LNG export boom in British Columbia have faded as low prices and the provincial government’s greenhouse emission targets have created barriers for any new projects.