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TERRACE - Everyone enjoys a quiet moment now and then and that was certainly the case in the barn area of the Thornhill Community Grounds during the Skeena Valley Fall Fair. A good crowd Saturday, Sept. 7 was followed by more people Sunday, Sept. 8. Promised rain on Sept. 8 didn’t materialize, making the events more enjoyable.
Gas boss confident of LNG’s potential By Josh Massey
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TERRACE - Natural gas minister Rich Coleman says he’s approaching the promise of liquefied natural gas (LNG) development in BC with the same optimism that saw him through to a BC Liberal win when others had written off the party during the May provincial election. “I really do think there’s at least three or four, maybe five [LNG plants] that are really dead serious and they are looking at this long term,” Coleman said after making a speech Sept. 5 to nearly 90 people at a Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce luncheon. “There’s three others that if they can find the land base they
want they will come through.” Three LNG proposals have surfaced in Kitimat and two in Prince Rupert. Two of the Kitimat ones have received environmental approval but no project has revealed any signed up customers. But it may not be until the middle of next year and even early in 2015 before northwest businesses hear if energy companies make final investment decisions to proceed with approved projects, said Coleman. “Our message must be that we support that industry,” Coleman told the luncheon attendees at the Bavarian Inn, calling it a “generational opportunity.” “I’ve never seen a better leader to have on a file like this,” he added of premier Christy Clark,
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