An oil tanker that transports the first loads of Liquefied Natural Gas in Canada throughout the Pacific to Asian markets has moved away from the LNG Canada position in Kitimat, BC, online shipping tracker tracker shows.
Gaslog Glasgow was loaded with LNG produced in BC, a project spokesman said on Monday.
The mayor of Kitimat, Phil Germuth, said it has been a long trip, approximately a decade, see the startup of a project that, according to him, will bring a long -term economic impulse to the region.
“Lng Canada put an extreme amount of effort and resources to ensure that even years before [their final investment decision]That the negative impacts in the community would be as little as possible, “Germuth said in an interview.
“And so we are very grateful for that. For a city with less than 9,000 people to have more than 7,000 people turning inside and outside a project directly in their community, they did an outstanding job when protecting the community during that.”
The main political correspondent, Rosemary Barton, speaks with the mayor of Kitimat, Phil Germut, about the new LNG plant that is expected to begin to produce soon and the industrial history of the region.
The pilots on the coast of British Columbia said that two of its members approached the oil company near Triple Island in the remote Costa del Norte de BC and sailed the ship on a 15 -hour trip and almost 300 kilometers to Kitimat.
“The arrival of Gaslog Glasgow to the LNG terminal Canada in Kitimat is a historical moment, and BC coast drivers are proud to have supported this milestone,” Captain Steve Kennedy said in a written statement.
The pilots rotated shifts to ensure that the service was alert throughout the trip. They were escorted by a tugboat specially designed by Haisea Marine, a majority of the company owned by the Nation Haisla.
“This successful operation reflects more than 10 years of preparation and collaboration with the government, industry and the first coastal nations to ensure that ship operations are safe and to help minimize impacts on the environment and coastal communities along the route,” Kennedy said.
GNG Canada is a joint business between Shell and Malaysia Petronas, Petrochina, Mitsubishi Corp. of Japan and Kogas of South Korea. Its first phase is expected to produce 14 million tons of gas per year, and a second phase under consideration would be a double exit.
The Federal Government has billed as the largest investment of the private sector in Canadian history: $ 40 billion between the operation of the port, the gas fields of the BC northeast that supplies it and the pipe in the middle.
GNL Canada is now operational and a handful of other LNG projects are under construction or development.
Liquefied natural gas, or LNG, is the gas that has cooled at temperatures of –162 C in a liquid state, which allows to be transported abroad in specialized tank trucks.
The gas produced in western Canada could be sold at a much higher price in Asia than if it remained without a coast, and defenders say that ensuring new buyers would reduce Canada’s dependence in the United States.
Until now, Canada’s only export market for its gas has been the United States, through the pipe. The commercial relationship between the two countries has been shaken by the rates and reflections in the evolution of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, about the annexation of Canada.
Other LNG LNG GNL projects include Cedar LNG, a joint company between Pembina Ppeline and La Nación Haisla and the LNG Woodfibre project near Squamish. A final investment decision in the facilities of KSI Lisims has not yet been made near the border with Alaska, an association between the Nisga’a nation, Rockies Lng and Western LNG.
LNG has been promoted as a “bridge” or “transition” fuel to supplant coal as a source of energy in emerging economies.
But Nichole Dusyk, senior policy advisor to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said that continuous investment in fossil fuels puts the economy, taxpayers and the climatic commitments of Canada at risk.
“As the change to low -cost renewable energies accelerates, any additional investment in LNG means duplicating a volatile industry that already shows signs of market opportunities for excess supply and reduction, even in Asia.”
