UNISCO wins Canadian smelter contract

Oman Daily Observer … has won a contract to supply 386 superstructures (approximately 6000 metric tonnes of steel) for the modernisation of Kitimat Aluminium Smelter in Kitimat, Canada. The client is Rio Tinto Alcan Primary Metal British Columbia Operations, Canada Click for more

Transport Canada has ‘no regulatory concerns’ with plans for Northern Gateway …

Yahoo! News Canada (blog) Transport Canada gave thumbs-up to a key component of the plan. The federal department told the Joint Review Panel examining the project that it had "no regulatory concerns" with Enbridge’s plans to bring the giant tankers to Kitimat on the northern BC … Click for more

Enbridge pipeline bad for the economy

Winnipeg Free Press The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline will deliver an inflationary oil price "shock" to Canadians of US$2 to $3 per barrel "every year for 30 years," a BC economist predicts. Robyn Allan, former president of the Insurance Corp. of BC and senior … Click for more

Enbridge offered First Nations cash to study pipeline

Canada First Perspective An aboriginal organization leading the fight to prevent oil tankers on the British Columbia coast once took money from Enbridge Inc., the company hoping to build the pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast port of Kitimat. Click for more

Aboriginal leaders stand firm against Northern Gateway pipeline

CBC.ca Stars lend power to fight The public hearings continue in Kitamaat Village Wednesday before moving on to Terrace, BC, Thursday afternoon. MAP Canada’s crude oil pipeline Charting TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline Members from Douglas Channel … Click for more

A tale of two pipelines: the Northern Gateway and the Keystone XL

GlobalNews.ca As the fate of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project is decided at lengthy public hearings in Kitimat, BC, Globalnews.ca compares Enbridge’s plans with TransCanada’s Keystone XL proposal. ENBRIDGE: The Enbridge Northern Gateway oil pipeline is a proposed … Click for more

Public hearings on Enbridge’s Northern pipeline to begin Jan. 10

Vancouver Sun Enbridge’s Northern Gateway bid is to build two pipelines from Bruderheim, 60 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, along a 1172-kilometre route to Kitimat on the BC coast. One would be a 36-inch pipe, which would deliver to Kitimat for export up to 525000 … Click for more

Asian fuel demands spur plans for natural gas terminals on west coast

Vancouver Sun The Hague, Netherlands-based Shell and partners China National Petroleum Corp., Korea Gas Corp. and Mitsubishi are planning to start shipping LNG from Kitimat, British Columbia, as early as 2016. The companies aim to export between 700 million to 1.2 …

BC’s Kitimat LNG terminal wins export licence

Globe and Mail “The board also recognizes that long-term oil-indexed sales contracts could provide for higher netbacks to Canadian producers.” With “the size of Canada’s natural gas resource, proximity to markets in Asia and Canada’s stable political and regulatory … Click for more

Canada Approves Plan For British Columbia LNG Shipments To Asia

Fox Business (APA), Encana Inc. (ECA) and EOG Resources Inc. (EOG), received the license from Canada’s National Energy Board to export from a deepwater port in Kitimat, BC The license is a step forward for the project, initially estimated to cost C$5.6 billion, … Click for more

northernbcbiz on Twitter

    © 2012 Northern BC Business. All Rights Reserved. Log in - Designed by Gabfire Themes