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By Natasha Bulowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer Months after promising that respect for Indigenous rights is fundamental to his major projects agenda, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Ksi Lisims LNG project \u2014 which would require a new gas pipeline snaking through First Nations territory \u2014 will head to the Major Projects Office for possible fast-tracking. In Carney\u2019s telling, Ksi Lisims is one piece of a trio of interlocking major projects: a floating liquefaction plant off the northwest coast of British Columbia, the estimated 900-kilometre Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline to move gas from northern BC to the coast, and a new transmission line to power the export terminal with electricity. \u201cLNG is an essential fuel for the energy transition,\u201d he said. \u201cWe’re home to the… <\/p>\n

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By Natasha Bulowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer Months after promising that respect for Indigenous rights is fundamental to his major projects agenda, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Ksi Lisims LNG project \u2014 which would require a new gas pipeline snaking through First Nations territory \u2014 will head to the Major Projects Office for possible fast-tracking. In Carney\u2019s telling, Ksi Lisims is one piece of a trio of interlocking major projects: a floating liquefaction plant off the northwest coast of British Columbia, the estimated 900-kilometre Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline to move gas from northern BC to the coast, and a new transmission line to power the export terminal with electricity. \u201cLNG is an essential fuel for the energy transition,\u201d he said. \u201cWe’re home to the... <\/p>\n

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