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The company behind a liquefied natural gas project near Squamish, B.C., has withdrawn its application for a temporary use permit from the local government to allow the anchoring of a converted cruise ship to house workers in Howe Sound. A water taxi driver approaches a renovated cruise ship known as a "floatel" that Woodfibre LNG plans to use to house 600 construction workers at a liquefied natural gas export facility being built near Squamish, during a media tour in Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, May 9, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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LNG company plans to use ‘floatel’ near Squamish, B.C., without local permit

Woodfibre LNG, the company behind a project near Squamish, B.C., has withdrawn its application for a local permit to house workers in a...

Side-by-side handout images, shown in infrared, taken by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellite show the Quesnel River as it meets the Fraser River in Quesnel, B.C., in May 2023, left, compared with May 2024.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, European Union, Canadian Space Agency *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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