September 12 2024
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I’m pleased to present our latest progress report from the LNG Canada site in Kitimat, British Columbia, in the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation.
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Construction activities are now more than 95% complete overall, and we remain on track to deliver first cargoes by the middle of 2025. I want to personally thank the 35,000-plus individual Canadians who have worked on the LNG Canada project to date. We would not be in this position today were it not for them.
Lately, we’ve welcomed hundreds more Canadians to the LNG Canada asset team–highly-skilled individuals who will safely operate this country’s first gas liquification and export facility.
Excitement here builds with every new milestone that’s reached.
Just weeks ago, we introduced natural gas to the facility for the first time, from the new Coastal GasLink pipeline. This was a major achievement for LNG Canada as we continue to progress our commissioning and safe start-up activities, and test and fine tune our equipment.
With gas in, we’re able to advance other start-up activities as planned, such as flaring.
Flaring is the combustion of natural gas with a visible flame. It’s designed to ensure that our facility operates safely and efficiently. It is carefully controlled and provincially regulated. Flaring will be intermittent and on-going during our safe start-up process. Once we enter operations, it will occur much less frequently.
We’ve also seen Canada’s most innovative fleet of zero and low emissions tugboats arrive at our marine berth. HaiSea Marine–a unique joint venture between Haisla Nation and Vancouver-based Seaspan–will operate the five tugboats—three of them fully electric. The new tug fleet will support the safe transit of LNG carriers in our shipping corridor.
This past summer, the Haisla-led Cedar LNG project reached a successful final investment decision. Cedar LNG will operate just around the corner from our facility, and will deliver significant, lasting benefits to the Haisla, other First Nations and local communities.
For our part, I’m proud to announce that the value of contracts and procurement to British Columbia based businesses awarded by LNG Canada and its contractors has just exceeded $5 billion. That includes more than $4.1 billion to local and Indigenous-owned businesses.
We see opportunities to deliver even more benefits with our proposed Phase 2 expansion. We continue to work towards conditions needed for our five joint venture participants to reach a Phase 2 final investment decision.
And of course, we remain committed to ensuring local communities and stakeholders are kept informed about all of our activities, be they on the ground or in the water. We want everyone to know what we’re doing, why we’re doing it, and when.
The LNG Canada team has conducted dozens of successful engagements with local community organizations, stakeholder groups and individuals. These efforts will continue as we move though our commissioning and startup process, and later during operations.
We’ve also created robust notification and feedback tools. These include an expanded Contact Us platform on our website and a new community feedback telephone line. The telephone number to call with questions or concerns is 1-833 632-5642.
We’re committed to responding to you as quickly as possible. Your feedback is important to us, so don’t hesitate to reach out. On behalf of all of us at LNG Canada, thanks for following our progress, and please stay in touch.
