Prince Rupert Gas Transmission rerouted after Indigenous consultations
The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) project has filed an amendment to the province’s Environmental Assessment Office to re-route the pipeline to avoid traditional caribou habitat.
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) project has filed an amendment to the province’s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) to re-route the pipeline to avoid traditional caribou habitat.
According to a press release on September 27th, the application concerns a 172-kilometre reroute and new initiation point located approximately 37 kilometres west of Chetwynd.
It has been filed after consultations with Treaty 8 Nations and will avoid sensitive wildlife areas. The new locations will be around corridors with already established natural gas pipelines and infrastructure.
“PRGT values and prioritizes feedback from Indigenous communities,” says the president of the Nisga’a Lisims Government, Eva Clayton. “Our commitment to open dialogue and mutual respect shaped the development of the proposed route,”
“[This re-route] ensures it reflects the concerns and insights of the Indigenous people who have stewarded their lands since time immemorial.”
According to the statement, just under half of the reroute will overlap with previously disturbed areas and cut the pipeline length by 60 kilometres.
To reach this motion to file, PRGT had extensive talks with several First Nations in the Peace region, including Blueberry River First Nation, Doig River First Nation, Halfway River First Nation, Saulteau First Nation, and West Moberly First Nation.
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The initial proposal was a 900-kilometre project running from Hudson’s Hope to Lelu Island near Prince Rupert. New ownership announced alterations in August.
Today’s announcement marks the second routing amendment under the ownership of the Nisga’a Lisims government, located near Prince Rupert, and U.S.-based Western LNG, who bought the project from TC Energy earlier this year.
An amendment application already submitted to the EAO concerning the project’s western end would add a delivery route at Pearce Island, where Ksi Lisims LNG’s project is located.
That project will produce 12 million tonnes of liquified natural gas per year.
If both applications are approved, the length of the entire PRGT project will be cut to 750 kilometres.
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