The door to B.C.’s liquefied natural gas export sector is about to open. Here’s what you need to know

By Matt Simmons  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter As Teresa Waddington proudly proclaimed LNG Canada is on track to wrap up construction in Kitimat, B.C., this year, the  room full of hundreds of attendees at the BC Natural Resources Forum  erupted in cheers. “We are 90 per cent complete, bringing  Canada’s first LNG export facility to life,” she said in mid-January, at  the annual gathering of industry bigwigs and hopefuls, First Nations  leaders, provincial and federal politicians and civil servants who had travelled from around the province to Prince George for the event. Waddington, a senior executive with the  consortium of companies building the gas liquefaction and export plant,  lauded the role of liquefied natural gas,  a fossil fuel commonly known as LNG, in building B.C.’s economy,  supporting First Nations and…

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