B.C. power line and Ksi Lisims LNG added to federal government’s major-projects list.

TERRACE, B.C., CANADA — Two more projects under planning in British Columbia have been given nation-building status in a move by the federal government to amp up Canada’s economy.

Standing with the backdrop of the Skeena Substation in Terrace, B.C., Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Ksi Lisims LNG and the North Coast Transmission Line will be considered for federal government fast-tracking as major projects.

Carney says Ksi Lisims, a floating export facility involving a natural gas pipeline across the north, will be one of the world’s cleanest operations, with emissions 94 per cent below global average, all while adding $4 billion a year to the nation’s GDP.

He says the North Coast Transmission Line, a 450-kilometre power line between Prince George and Terrace, will power Ksi Lisims and other “transformative” industrial projects, and it has the potential to create another $10 billion in new economic activity.

Two B.C. First Nations have already gone to court in opposition to the Ksi Lisims project, but Carney says the federal government is putting “huge financing” on the table for Indigenous equity ownership of the projects to help ensure they are fair.

B.C. already has two projects on the federal government’s major-projects list announced earlier this year, including LNG Canada Phase 2 in Kitimat and the expansion of the Red Chris copper mine.

None of the projects being considered by the Major Projects Office have yet received a national-interest designation that would confer special treatment in permitting and approvals.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 13, 2025.

Nono Shen, The Canadian Press