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Court sends Trans Mountain back for enviro approval Jeremy Hainsworth B.C.’s environmental approval of the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline must return to the provincial government for reconsideration as a result of changes in conditions that led to the approval certificate being granted, B.C.’s court of appeal ruled Sept. 17. And, said B.C Environment Minister George Heyman, Victoria will not use the two rulings to halt the pipeline despite campaign promises to “use every tool in our toolbox to stop the project from going ahead.” Rather, he said, the province will review the rulings to determine how to move forward. “We’re not able to stop the Pipe at a Trans Mountain Expansion Project stockpile site. | Trans Mountain Photo project, Heyman said. “That’s in federal jurisdiction. Only the billion pipeline in June after reviews the court decisions, the Federal Court of Appeal can stop purchasing it from Kinder Morgan government would do so with a this project.” in early 2018 for $4.5 billion. view to protecting B.C.’s coastline, Justice Mary Saunders, writing In January 2017, British the environment, jobs and tourism. the unanimous decision, said, “I Columbia’s Liberal government He conceded that while the would not quash the certificate issued a 37-condition provincial government still but would remit the matter to environmental assessment believes “this is a wrong-headed the ministers to permit them certificate for the project. The project and bad for British to reconsider the certificate’s government did so relying on a Columbia,” much of the situation conditions.” so-called equivalency agreement is out of B.C.’s control and in She said those conditions have with the NEB that could stand in federal hands. changed in the wake of the Federal for a provincial assessment in the “We’re going to take the time Court of Canada’s decision in interests of efficiency. to review the conditions within Tsleil-Waututh Nation v. Canada That approval had adopted our jurisdiction,” the minister quashing the federal approval of conditions recommended in the said, adding there is no legal the project by the National Energy NEB report on the project. requirement for a British Columbia Board (NEB) – which has since It is the conditions that the certificate for the project to move changed its name to the Canada court of appeal has remitted to the forward. Energy Regulator (CER) – and the Environmental Assessment Office A Trans Mountain statement federal cabinet. for review. said the company is continuing Ottawa re-approved the $7.4 Heyman said that, as it with project construction and
planning “is committed to building the expansion in a manner that minimizes impacts to the environment and respects the values and priorities of Canadians.” The court suggested Victoria review the amendments to the CER Reconsideration Report to determine whether they impact the provincial conditions that are placed on the project. The statement said the court affirmed B.C. is limited to making adjustments or additions to the provincial marine conditions and must do so within the limited scope of provincial authority over marine issues. continued on page 13
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This election, we need vision to move industry forward
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he leaves have changed to their beautiful fall colours while big box stores obnoxiously set out Christmas decorations before Halloween. The scent of pumpkin spice lattes fill the air and sandals with the floor heat on in your car is considered acceptable. It would be business as usual, but this year there is one major exception — the federal election. Dreaded by some and embraced by others, it’s a chance for change or to keep the status quo. Now in full swing, the streets are dotted with campaign signs and news feeds are chalked with political promises in an attempt to woo voters. This election is vitally important to the energy industry with the potential to signal more storm clouds in the future or a break in the weather.
To borrow a now famous phrase, it hasn’t exactly been “sunny ways” for our industry. It would be easy to hack on the current government for all the woes the industry currently finds itself in, but it would be unfairly stated. We have been a victim of our own success with the technological advancements that have been made in resource extraction to bring a lot of product to market in a very short period of time. Prices collapsed making it unprofitable for producers and we all know how that’s been going. Then add a dash of nowhere to ship product, a pinch of political waffling and it’s been a recipe for disaster. In this time of turmoil, we need a federal government that is in full support of our industry. This support
Chuck Fowler cannot be in platitudes but in actionable defence and advancement of our industry. The divestiture in Canadian energy in the last couple of years is staggering and we need to stop the bleeding. It’s not enough for our politicians to say, “I won’t do what they did.” We need forwardthinking political parties and leaders to keep our industry competitive on the global stage. It’s one
thing to say the world needs more Canadian energy; it’s another to have sound strategies to get it there. The obvious has been rightly stated over and over again: more pipelines, more market access. What needs to be more evident is a long-term vision from our government. The kind of vision we’ve seen historically that put a rail line coast to coast, because it served the interest of Canada as a whole. We need a government putting together clear and concise regulations and timelines that people understand and trust. Fair but firm rules of engagement for the producers to follow, taking into account the environment, people, and the economy. The key here is clarity and vision as a path forward. Should we
future-proof our economy, investing in renewables and other energy forms? Yes, of course, we should, while at the same time recognizing the fact that resource development has paid the rent in Canada for quite some time. We need to move forward unapologetically with the investment in our resource industries. This election season, I’m looking for more than a “But they did this,” or a “We won’t do that.” I’m looking for a clear vision for our industry. I can’t stop potentially tripping over Christmas trees when shopping for Halloween costumes at WalMart. I can, however, ask for our politicians to come to us with ideas to move our industry forward. Chuck Fowler lives and works in Fort St. John.
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medicine Hat shuttering more than 2,000 producing gas wells Alberta’s self-anointed “Gas City” is turning off the taps of more than 2,000 producing wells due to weak market conditions, the daily Oil Bulletin reports. After an extensive four-year process to find efficiencies and new opportunities in a depressed oil and gas market, the City of Medicine Hat has decided to accelerate abandonment and reclamation of uneconomic gas fields. “We’ll always be the Gas City. It’s an integral piece of our history, and the City’s oil and gas accomplishments will leave a lasting legacy for generations,” said Brad Maynes, commissioner of energy and utilities.
“Over the past 40 years, the City’s oil and gas assets provided over $600 million to the city coffers. We can’t overlook that success.” The decision to roll back activity was not taken lightly by city officials. “We have worked hard for years to make the division profitable again, but this is a market phenomenon happening across North America — this is the new normal,” Maynes said. Residential and business gas supply will not be affected by these decisions, and steps are being taken to ensure a continued flow of supply for decades to come, the city said. — Daily Oil Bulletin
Deborah Jaremko Enbridge has started the regulatory process for a new natural gas liquids extraction plant and associated pipeline in Northeast B.C. with a projected capital cost of $2.5 billion. The company filed an application for the Frontier Project with the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office in August. It would be B.C.’s second straddle plant; whereas there are eight in Alberta, noted GMP FirstEnergy analyst Ian Gillies. The plant will be located near Chetwynd, B.C. and is expected to have an initial capacity of 1.0-1.5 bcf/d, he wrote in a research note. The related 100,000-bbl/d NGL pipeline will begin at the Chetwynd plant and will stretch 130-170 km to Taylor, B.C., where the liquids would then go to third party fractionation
and rail loading facilities for further processing and transportation to market. “This is another example of infrastructure companies trying to provide solutions for natural gas liquids in the WCSB and improve takeaway capacity for dry gas,” Gillies said. “We expect the fractionation facility will be owned by a third party. Mosaic theory would suggest that Pembina Pipeline will be the provider as they have discussed building a fractionation facility in this region. Project design is currently in the conceptual stage, with FEED work expected to begin the third quarter, for an expected in-service date of winter 2024, Gillies said. The project is not yet secured, and Enbridge has not yet discussed it with the analyst community, he added. — JWN Energy
Returns rebound at September land sale B.C.’s monthly sale of Crown petroleum and natural gas rights saw an $8.3 million lift in September thanks to the sale of a drilling licence in the Halfway River area. Industry paid $8.97 million in bonus bids for the month, the most successful sale of the year so far for the province in terms of returns. The biggest grab was by Contiguous Resources, which paid $31,477 per hectare for the 264-hectare drilling licence near Halfway River. Synergy Land Services picked up the other drilling licence sold this month, paying $106,909 for 569 hectares in the Upper Halfway area.
Two leases were sold. Concourse Petroleum paid a bonus bid of $320,152 for two tracts covering 1,395 hectares in the Martin area. Elk Run Resources paid $234,910 for four tracts covering 1,135 hectares in the Kobes and Gundy Creek areas. Industry paid $8.97 million in bonus bids, or $2,668 per hectare. With rent and other fees, the province brought in $8.99 million for the month. The province has now taken in close to $12 million in bonus bids to date this year — far short of the nearly $61 million it saw through this time last year.
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Mining by Conuma Coal Resources contributes to the strength of the resource sector in northern B.C., though the forestry industry has been hit by mill closures and layoffs.
Boom and gloom in British Columbia’s north nelson bennett As of May this year, an estimated 4,385 workers were employed on the $8.8 billion Site C dam construction project near Fort St. John. Kitimat and Terrace are humming with activity, thanks to the $40 billion LNG CanadaCoastal GasLink pipeline project. Port expansion in Prince Rupert has created an additional 1,000 jobs since 2016. Employment is strong in the Dawson CreekTumbler Ridge-Chetwynd triangle, thanks in part to Conuma Coal Resources reopening a third mine – Willow Creek – last year. And in the Golden Triangle of northwest B.C., mining exploration spending was up by about $165 million in 2018, according to EY. Economic growth in B.C.’s north is reflected in housing starts and construction permits. Residential building permits in northern B.C. were up 30% in 2018 compared with the total in 2017, industrial permits were up 427% and institutional and government building permits were up 42%, according to the annual State of the North report. Overall, indicators show northern B.C.’s economy growing in 2018. But in small, forestrydependent communities like Mackenzie and Fort St. James, it’s a very different story. Both have been hit hard recently with sawmill closures and curtailments. “You go to Kitimat and Terrace right now, things are hopping,” said Joel McKay, CEO of the Northern Development Initiative Trust, which publishes the State of the North report. “In Prince Rupert, where you’ve got the Port of Prince Rupert – you know, hundreds of new jobs created in a couple of years with their expansion – lots of activity there. So no question about it, some of those major industrial projects are really helping to keep some communities afloat. “If you pop up north to Mackenzie, Fort St. James, Vanderhoof, Fraser Lake and then down Highway 97 into the Cariboo, that’s where you
start to see the impacts of the downturn in forestry. And that is a different story. “Those communities are concerned about the residents they’re going to lose, their future tax base in order to deliver services.” Whether it is fisheries, forestry, mining or oil and gas, resource industries are cyclical, so many northern communities will always be vulnerable to boom-and-bust cycles. But the recent downturn in forestry has been particularly severe. In Mackenzie, some 600 sawmill workers, loggers and truck drivers are suddenly out of work, thanks to the permanent closure of a Canfor Corp. sawmill and extended curtailment at a Conifex Timber Inc. mill. In Fort St. James, 170 sawmill workers were laid off when Conifex closed its sawmill there. Conifex hopes to sell the mill to Hampton Lumber. B.C.’s timber supply is in a long-term decline, thanks to the mountain pine beetle infestation and forest fires, which have taken more than 50% of the merchantable timber out of the annual allowable cut. High lumber prices in the U.S. forestalled the inevitable mill closures. But when prices started to fall, the sawmill closures and curtailments came quickly and have left communities like Mackenzie and Fort St. James reeling. “It comes as zero surprise to anybody who’s been watching forestry for a while that there was going to be a downturn and it was going to be big,” McKay said. “What happened this year was it all kind of came at once.” In mid-August, close to 1,000 people staged a rally in Mackenzie to call public attention to the sweeping job losses. They are pressuring the provincial government to do something, which in turn is pressuring the federal government to do something. Doug Donaldson, minister of forests, lands, natural resource operations and rural development, has written to the federal
government asking for federal aid for workers. In Mackenzie, about one-third of the laid-off workers are 55 years old or older, so the province is asking the federal government to provide early retirement incentives. “Some of those workers are seeking early retirement, but they have some years to go before their pensions kick in,” Donaldson said. “So that’s the bridging funding we’re seeking from the federal government.” The government is also asking Ottawa to lower eligibility requirements for employment insurance. With thousands of workers needed for multibillion-dollar projects like the Coastal GasLink pipeline, there may be opportunities for laid-off sawmill workers to get jobs elsewhere in northern B.C. The Coastal GasLink pipeline alone, which will run from Dawson Creek to Kitimat, is expected to employ 2,000 to 2,500 workers over a four-year period. “It’s absolutely true that between Site C, Trans Mountain, Coastal GasLink, LNG Canada and some of the other projects that might come along, those create employment opportunities for the workers who may be impacted by the closures or curtailments,” McKay said. “But the challenge is, not in 100% of cases are skill sets going to be transferable.” And while some laid-off loggers and sawmill workers may get jobs elsewhere, those jobs may require them to move, which exacerbates the drain on small communities like Mackenzie, which loses both industrial and residential taxpayers. Some northern communities – Quesnel, for example – have been anticipating the long-term decline in forestry and have been working to diversify their economies to insulate them from the swings that characterize resource sectors. Tourism is one area Quesnel has focused on. — Business in Vancouver
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Satellite methane measurements begin next year nelson bennett A Canadian company that uses satellites to detect methane leaks from space will begin measuring methane emissions in B.C.’s northeast gas fields in 2020, thanks in part to $3.3 million in federal funding. Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) will contribute $3.3 million towards a $9.8 million project. The rest of the financing will come from GHGSat, which last year raised US$10 million in series A financing. GHGSat will be working on a “tiered” approach that uses both satellites and aircraft mounted with sensors – developed by GHGSat – to pinpoint methane emissions in the Montney gas play in northeast B.C. “These funds will allow GHGSat to demonstrate to regulators that our technology can offer accurate and more frequent measurements, enabling industrial operators to identify and repair leaks faster, all for lower cost than conventional methods,” GHGSat CEO Stéphane Germain said in a news release. The methane produced in natural gas production can be a problem, from a greenhouse gas standpoint. Although natural gas produces 50% to 60% less CO2 than coal, when burned to produce power, methane leaks – often in the form of fugitive emissions – could conceivably cancel out any gains. The problem with methane is that it can be difficult to quantify. There are natural sources of methane, and determining just how much is coming from fossil fuel production can be a challenge. And until regulators have better baseline
Satellites can be used to detect large methane leaks from space.
data on methane emissions from the natural gas industry, it may be difficult to measure the success of government targets of reducing methane emissions by 45%. Better measurements and monitoring are therefore key to quantifying just how much methane may be produced by a given well, pipeline or natural gas processing plant. “GHGSat understands the need for globally standardized technology to quantify GHG
emissions from industrialized facilities,” said Zoe Kolbuc, vice-president, partnerships, for SDTC. “Their innovative satellites can reduce monitoring costs in the oil sands by over 50%. More frequent and accurate reporting better informs the industry on where and how to reduce GHG emissions.” — Business in Vancouver
Construction underway on gas-to-synthetic fuels plant Deborah Jaremko With a new $15 million financing in place, Calgary-based Rocky Mountain GTL says it has awarded a major construction contract for a facility near the city that will process flare gas, natural gas, and natural gas liquids into higher value, cleaner burning diesel and other premium liquid fuels. It will be the first commercial scale gas-to-synthetic fuels operation in Canada, Rocky Mountain GTL says. The facility will use technology licensed from Greyrock Energy. Rocky Mountain GTL has selected Midwest Construction Group as general contractor for the facility, located about 60 kilometres east of Calgary, near Carseland, Alberta. The enhanced GTL (EGTL) plant is designed to process up to approximately 5.0 MMscfe/d of natural gas and natural gas liquids into a nominal 500 bbls/d of paraffinic synthetic diesel and naphtha. It forms the basis for future EGTL plants
Rendering of the Carseland EGTL facility, which is now under construction.
that are scalable from 5.0MMscfe/d to 50.0 MMsfce/d of natural gas capacity, the company says. Field construction commenced May 2019. Rocky Mountain GTL CEO James Ross says the facility will eliminate price or pipeline accessibility issues for producers by providing optionality to produce natural gas and associated
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C. Premier John Horgan and Fisheries and Oceans Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announce $680 million in joint funding in August to electrify B.C.’s natural gas industry
Trans Mountain – Justin time for election nelson bennett In the coming weeks leading up to the October 21 federal election, there may be an opportunity for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to don a hard hat, pick up a shovel and turn sod on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Trans Mountain Corp. plans to resume work on the twinning project this fall. (It’s not clear whether last week’s decision by the Federal Court of Appeal to hear yet another challenge will further delay that resumption.) Despite its potential political windfall for Trudeau, Marvin Shaffer, an adjunct professor of public policy at Simon Fraser University, doesn’t think it will earn the prime minister many points in Alberta. “I don’t think he will get much credit, even if credit is deserved to some degree, just because of the hostility to the government there,” Shaffer said. The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and the $40 billion LNG Canada venture are two major energy projects in Western Canada that Trudeau can point to as accomplishments under the energy file. Otherwise, from the energy industry’s perspective, that file is a boneyard. In two years, under the Trudeau government’s watch, $100 billion worth of energy projects were killed, cancelled or stalled, according to a C.D. Howe Institute report released last year. During Trudeau’s tenure, global energy majors like Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips(NYSE:COP) and Statoil – now called Equinor(NYSE:EQNR) – divested roughly US$30 billion worth of Alberta oilsands assets, according to Bloomberg News. At a time when capital spending in oil and gas increased 38% in the U.S. (2017), spending in Canada’s oil and gas sector fell 56% over three years, according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. The Trudeau government’s approach to energy was an attempted balancing act – developing Canada’s resources while addressing
environmental concerns and climate change. In a bargain with Rachel Notley’s Alberta NDPgovernment in Alberta, the Trudeau government promised new pipelines in exchange for ambitious climate change policies. Trudeau killed the Northern Gateway pipeline project but approved the Trans Mountain and Line 3 pipeline expansions. Line 3’s expansion is still held up, but that is due mostly to regulatory delays in the U.S. Trudeau can at least point to the Trans Mountain expansion as a fulfilled election promise, although it came at substantial financial and political costs. The Trudeau government lost a key ally when Jason Kenney’sUnited Conservative Partyunseated the Notley government in the 2018 Alberta provincial election, undoing some of her government’s key climate change measures. The Trudeau government’s unwillingness or inability to exert federal authority over a recalcitrant BC NDPgovernment, which threatened to use every tool available to block the pipeline’s expansion, prompted Kinder Morgan Canada(TSX:KML) to announce that, like TC Energy(TSX:TRP), which cancelled the $12 billion Energy East pipeline project, it was pulling the plug. The Trudeau government stepped in and bought the Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5 billion and committed to financing its expansion. But the energy industry viewed the purchase as a tacit admission that the regulatory, legal and political climate in Canada is sclerotic and risky. As for other energy projects, Trudeau was on hand to take some credit in October 2018 when the partners behind the $40 billion LNG Canada project were in Vancouver to sign the project into reality. The Trudeau government agreed to waive 45% tariffs on fabricated steel imported from China and South Korea – something that could have added hundreds of millions of dollars to the project’s costs. More recently, it announced $275 million in funding for LNG Canada to help defray
costs of high-energy gas turbines. Trudeau also recently announced joint funding of $680 million worth of electrification projects to reduce the carbon profile of B.C.’s natural gas and LNG sector. Despite progress on LNG Canada and the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the Trudeau government can expect the Conservatives during the election campaign to accuse it of being no friend of Alberta or the oil and gas sector. And the prime minister will face charges from the federal NDPand the Green Party of Canadathat he is no friend of the environment, because “climate leaders don’t build pipelines.” Critics of Trudeau’s oil tanker moratorium for northern B.C. and revamp of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and National Energy Board(NEB) through Bill C-69 warn that the Trans Mountain pipeline may be the last one built in Canada. Even Notley, a Trudeau ally, criticized Bill C-69, which is a considerable rewriting of Canada’s environmental and regulatory review processes that has generated significant backlash from Alberta, industry and business associations. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheerhas vowed to scrap Bill C-69, as well as Bill C-48, which would ban oil tanker traffic on B.C.’s north coast, should the Conservatives form the next government. As for clean energy, the Liberal government in its last budget earmarked $1.4 billion over four years for various incentives. The NDP is pledging investments in renewable energy to achieve carbon-free electricity in Canada by 2030 – something that would require the phase-out of coal and natural gas power, which generate 19% of Canada’s power. The Green party likewise is promising to “remove all fossil fuel generation” from Canada’s grid by 2030. The Conservative party’s platform makes no such promises but is the only one that mentions nuclear power as a potential source of emissionsfree power generation.— Business in Vancouver
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Is Canada really handing $42 billion of work to China?
Rendering of the northwest side of the proposed LNG Canada liquefaction plant and export terminal in Kitimat.
nelson bennett The federal government is shipping $42 billion worth of steel work to China at the expense of Canadian workers and steelmakers, says a major industry association. The Canadian Institute of Steel Construction recently slammed the government of Justin Trudeau for waiving tariffs on foreign steel imports for the LNG Canada ($40 billion) and Woodfibre LNG ($1.4 billion to $1.8 billion) projects. The CEOs of Shell Canada and Petronas Canada – the two major partners in the LNG Canada project – say the claim that the remission of steel tariffs for liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects will result in $42 billion of offshoring is simply not true. While the LNG modules – also known as liquefaction trains – for the LNG Canada plant in Kitimat will be built in Asian steel yards, that only accounts for a portion of the $17 billion capital cost of the LNG plant in Kitimat, although LNG Canada won’t disclose just how much will be spent overseas. According to an analysis by Canadian engineer Reza Naghash, the liquefaction trains for an LNG plant account for 50% of total plant costs. “The majority of what the overall cost is will be spent in Canada,” said Susannah Pierce, director of corporate affairs for LNG Canada. The $40 billion price tag for LNG Canada includes the $6.2 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline, which will be built in Canada, mostly with Canadian steel. Billions more will be spent in B.C. over the next 40 years in the upstream development, as new natural gas wells, processing plants and gathering systems are built to meet the demand for gas over the life of the LNG plant. Already, about 2,500 people are employed
on the project, according to Shell Canada CEO Michael Crothers – in Kitimat, along the Coastal GasLink pipeline route and at the Calgary office of Fluor Corp., part of joint venture JGC Fluor, which has the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the project. “In Calgary there is a big office of Fluor – about 500 engineers working on the project,” Crothers said. Crothers said all the foundations, which include a lot of rebar, will be built using Canadian workers and suppliers. And most of the steel for the Coastal GasLink pipeline will be provided by Evraz steel plants in Canada, he said. Canadian LNG projects are not the only ones to have LNG modules built in Asia. Projects in Australia also had LNG trains built in Asia. Crothers and Mark Fitzgerald, CEO for Petronas Canada, said Canadian steel plants simply don’t have the capacity to build LNG modules on the scale required for a project like LNG Canada. “I don’t think there’s a yard big enough in Canada to build them,” said Fitzgerald. The LNG trains are the size of a 10-storey hotel, Crothers said. “We can’t be competitive as an LNG export nation unless we have access to the most effective assembly line for these massive modules. That kind of expertise to build modules of that scale doesn’t exist in Canada. But what we do have in Canada is the ability to put them all together.” Ed Whalen, CEO for the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction, said his association’s biggest beef with the Trudeau government’s remission of steel tariffs is that Canadian steel fabricators didn’t even have the chance to bid on the LNG Canada and Woodfibre LNG projects. “We don’t have a problem with offshoring to a country that is competing fairly with us,” Whalen said. “And if we’re not low enough to get the price, so be it.
“The problem with China, we’ve caught them at illegally dumping and subsidizing their fabricated steel into Canada, and as a result we won’t even have a chance to bid on these particular two [projects].” David Keane, president of Woodfibre LNG, said the Canadian steel industry has known for years that an LNG industry was being developed in Canada, but made none of the investments needed to build the capacity it would need to develop the massive assembly yards that would be needed. And maybe that’s because such an investment would not make sense for just one or two LNG projects. “You’re not going to build a multibillion-dollar module yard for just one or two LNG plants,” Keane said. It’s not just the LNG plant and pipeline that will employ Canadians during peak construction. LNG Canada has a 40-year export licence, which means it will need a lot of natural gas over the next four decades. “The planning horizon for Petronas for LNG Canada is 40-plus years, and delivering our share of natural gas to that facility over 40 years is going to require an investment of somewhere between $1 billion to $2 billion per year in the upstream, depending on the year,” Fitzgerald said. “That investment will flow to local communities, local business, the development of Indigenous business, the development of local skills.” Petronas is already starting to ramp up its natural gas production. It has two drilling rigs running in northeastern B.C. As for Shell Canada, it plans to start ramping up its natural gas production in late 2020. That will include an expansion to its Saturn natural gas plant, which will be fully electric. — Business in Vancouver
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Petronas to see ‘slow and steady’ activity increase Carter Haydu Petronas Energy Canada Ltd. plans a “slow and steady” increase in activity over the next three years to deliver natural gas to a variety of markets including global markets through LNG Canada, evidenced with recently-announced drilling programs. “The company has already begun work on a new eight-well pad and two new gas plants in the Town area late last year and expects to increase the number of rigs running from two currently to six in 2022,” a PETRONAS spokesperson told the Bulletin in an email response. “In the near-term, the number of wells drilled will continue to be based on a number of factors including natural gas prices and pipeline commitments.” A recent weekly report issued by the DOB’s Post Report highlights the company’s plan to drill between five and 10 horizontal gas wells
at Blueberry (D-94-A-13), as well as up to 12 horizontal gas wells at Town (J-94-B-16). The expected finish date for all these wells is March 31, 2020. Thus far in 2019, according to DOB data, PETRONAS has rig released seven development wells, six of which were for natural gas. One well was listed as standing. By comparison, in fullyear 2018 the company rig released five natural gas development wells. In 2017, PETRONAS did not rig release any wells. PETRONAS made a big push into the Canadian energy sector in 2012, acquiring Progress Energy Canada Ltd. for C$5.2 billion ($4.76 billion) in a deal that gave the Malaysia-based company access to properties in northeastern British Columbia. For 2016, PETRONAS rig released 19 wells, compared to 23 wells in 2015. Under the former Progress Energy moniker,
however, in 2016 the company rig released 28 development natural gas wells. In 2015, Progress rig released 152 wells, including 140 development gas wells, as well as two exploratory oil and 10 exploratory gas wells. That number was down from 205 total rig releases in 2014. “The company continues to explore ways to bring its substantial supply of natural gas, an important part of the planet’s transition to a low carbon economy, to multiple markets in order to meet growing global consumption and expectations,” the spokesperson said, noting that PETRONAS has a 25 per cent stake in LNG Canada. “Together with its joint venture partners, PETRONAS Canada owns approximately 900,000 gross acres of mineral rights with more than 60 trillion cubic feet of reserves and contingent resources in the North Montney.” — Daily Oil Bulletin
Buckinghorse road to be deactivated NorthRiver Midstream plans to deactivate the Buckinghorse Petroleum Development Road. The decision comes as the company abandons the Buckinghorse gas plant, which it acquired through a sale of Enbridge facilities and infrastructure in the region in 2018. Though the plant hasn’t been operational in 20 years, the road has still been maintained, Talese Shilleto, external affairs, told Fort St.
John city councillors in August. “We’re working to abandon that plant, which means it’s not deactivated, but it’s actually gone and can’t be reactivated,” Shiletto said. “We’re looking to deactivate the road.” The road leads to the nearby Redfern-Keily Provincial Park. NorthRiver is talking with a producer in the area to take over its permit for the first three kilometres of the road, Shiletto said, which
could maintain some access into the area. Shiletto acknowledged the road is popular with recreationists. Talks are also ongoing with BC Parks, the Oil and Gas Commission, and the ministry of forests, lands, and natural resources about the road deactivation and potential transfer, she said. Deactivation is planned to start in September. By deactivating the road, North River will be required to remove all bridges and culverts,
re-establish natural drainages, stabilize slopes, barricade the road, and post warning signs. “We will be maintaining the road until we go into deactivation of that road,” Shilleto said. Meanwhile, the company anticipates the sale of Enbridge’s federally-regulated plants and pipelines to formally close in October. That was initially expected in July, but was delayed due to a public comment period.
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More Canadians want Trans Mountain built More than 50% of Canadians want the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion to be completed — more than twice as many as those who would like to see it shut down, according to a new survey by Angus Reid. “One of the key debates over the Liberal government’s first term has been the TransMountain expansion pipeline. The project faces a fresh round of legal obstacles after the Federal Court of Appeal ruled it would hear six new challenges to it,” the research firm said on Friday. “With pipeline construction resumed, but one-third of landowners along the route having yet to consent to the project, the fate of the project is as murky as the
FROM THE FRONT PAGE “The court ruled that the Environmental Assessment Certificate is valid and remains in place,” Trans Mountain said. Two decisions come on appeal of lower court rulings in which the Squamish Nation and the City of Vancouver both applied by petition for an order setting aside the B.C. government’s decision to issue an environmental assessment certificate for the doubling of the pipeline to move petroleum products from Alberta to the B.C. coast. Justice Christopher Grauer dismissed the petition last year. The city said in a statement it is pleased the court has partially allowed its appeal. “As a result of today’s decision, the province is required to reconsider the conditions in the environmental assessment certificate based on the changes to the original report of the NEB,” the statement said. “The city remains of the view that the Trans Mountain Pipeline project would have significant environmental impacts, including the unacceptable risk of oil spills and increased greenhouse gas emissions related to the project at a time when the world needs to reduce emissions.” The Squamish First Nation said Victoria must heed the court decision and conduct a comprehensive environmental review of the project. “Premier Horgan and his
diluted bitumen proposed to flow through it.” Angus Reid said the difficulty in navigating the project politically becomes more evident when looking at age and gender splits, as well as political affiliation. “Considerable opposition emerges from those who lean toward the New Democrats (51%) and the Green Party (67%), both groups from which Trudeau and his party will be hoping to draw voters. For women under the age of 55, the project is a source of deep division, while men are largely supportive of its completion.”
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government need to set the bar higher and rethink their approach to the (Trans Mountain) project and truly respect indigenous rights by jointly reviewing with the Squamish Nation and other concerned First Nations whose territories would be directly impacted by the pipeline expansion. There’s a lot of talk of reconciliation at the provincial level, and this is a critical opportunity for the province to put its words into action,” said Khelsilem, a Squamish Nation councillor and spokesperson. Khelsilem said the project poses significant risks to the Nation’s unceded territory, the community’s reliance on healthy marine and aquatic environments and to the existence of the southern resident killer whale—a species of cultural importance to the Nation that is recognized to be in a critical state. Since Grauer’s decision, the Federal Court of Appeal released its judgment in Tsleil-Waututh. In Tsleil-Waututh, the federal court identified deficiencies in two areas of concern: one being the NEB assessment of the risks inherent to marine shipping and certain environmental effects of the expansion project, and the second being the adequacy of Canada’s consultation process with Indigenous groups in respect to its decision to approve the project. The court said marine shipping associated to the project is expected to increase nearly seven-fold from current levels.
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Pipe destined for Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion sits on rail cars on westbound tracks in downtown Kamloops in April 2018. | Dave Eagles Photo
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hen the Federal Court of Appeal recently issued its ruling that six legal challenges to the Trans Mountain pipeline project can proceed on an expedited basis, it included an important – and extremely disappointing – detail. The Court noted that the Liberals did not intervene in the request for an appeal process and “took no position for or against the leave motions brought by the Indigenous and First Nation applicants.” By failing to submit a defence against 11 of the 12 motions to overturn the Liberals’ approval of the project, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has refused
to stand up for the Trans Mountain pipeline in court. This refusal confirms our worst suspicions — that the Prime Minister never had any intention of seeing this pipeline built but has spent billions of taxpayer dollars trying to rag the puck on the issue until after the election. This also comes after he has spent four years chasing away investment and jobs in Canada’s energy sector, with bills like C-69 and C-48. Canada’s Conservatives are the only party that have fought for, and will continue to fight for, the Trans Mountain pipeline and our energy sector. Within a week of the
Bob Zimmer Federal Court of Appeal ruling in August 2018 that overturned the approval of the Trans Mountain Expansion, Conservatives put forward a plan to rescue the project and get it built. Unfortunately, Justin Trudeau ignored our recommendations and the Trans Mountain pipeline has continued to
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face repeated roadblocks including this latest court ruling. This isn’t the way it has to be. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has also outlined what a Conservative government will do to reverse the Liberals’ disastrous energy policies and get projects like the Trans Mountain Expansion built. The sixpoint plan will: Cancel the carbon tax; Repeal Bill C-69, the NoMore Pipelines Bill; End the ban on shipping traffic in British Columbia; Establish clear timelines and get Indigenous consultations right up front; Ban foreign-funded advocacy groups from disrupting our approvals
process; and Assert federal jurisdiction when necessary. Under Justin Trudeau, Canadian taxpayers are on the hook for a $7 billion pipeline without seeing an inch of this pipeline built. The Liberals didn’t even bother to defend their approval of the Trans Mountain expansion in court. Our energy workers deserve better than this. Andrew Scheer has a plan to support Canada’s oil and gas sector and help energy workers get ahead. Bob Zimmer is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies.
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