Last month, Pacific Energy Corp. approved more than C$600 million ($500m) in spending for the project in 2022 for pre-construction. Now, the main contractor has the green light to ready the project for full construction to start in 2023.
Woodfibre officially set up its office in Squamish in 2013. Several setbacks have pushed back a final investment decision and construction start date, requiring Woodfibre LNG to get extensions to its environmental certificate.
Woodfibre LNG will be the second LNG plant built in B.C., after the much larger LNG Canada project in Kitimat.
Once construction work begins in earnest, the project is expected to employ a peak workforce of 650 people.
In addition to work on the actual LNG plant in Squamish, FortisBC, which will supply the plant with natural gas, needs to build a new connector pipeline. The 47-kilometre Eagle Mountain-Woodfibre Gas Pipeline will run from Coquitlam to Squamish. FortisBC…
