Westcoast Connector Gas Pipeline to use shorter route

An application to amend the Environmental Assessment Certificate for the Westcoast Connector Gas Pipeline has been approved but the Provincial Environmental Agency, the government body announcing its decision last week with an information release on the EIPC data base.

The amendment noting of a change in the routing of the pipeline through the Northeast region of the province, with the pipeline now to start  north of MacKenzie, eliminating the routing to the north.

The West Coast Connector Gas Transmission project has been an on again, off again proposal for over a decade, originally designed to feed natural gas to the BG Group's Prince Rupert LNG project that had been proposed for Ridley Island.

That proposed development, was one of a number of high profile LNG projects that were put on the shelf over the last ten years, the BG proposal meeting its cancellation fate in 2016, the project taken off of Shell Canada's inventory list in early 2017. 

It's the latest evolution is now to deliver gas to the proposed KSI Lisims LNG project at Wil Milt as part of the Nisga'a Nation led plans for LNG Terminal development in the Nass Valley.

You can learn more on the history of the Enbridge led project here.

Should the prospects of LNG development for Prince Rupert show a revival, the Enbridge map shows how it would route into Ridley Island.

The amendment documentation with the province can be examined here.

The full Westcoast Connector Gas Pipeline file can be reviewed here.

More background on the WesCoast Connector plans can be reviewed from our archive page here.

For a wider overview of regional LNG themes  see our archive page.