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11.80: The Alberta-B.C. Natural Gas Discount is at its lowest level in more than two years.

Chart on Page 5.

$3:60: The AECO “C” spot price, the Alberta gas trading price, has nearly doubled in the past year,

to $4.13/Gj. Chart on Page 5.

$15.53: The Japan LNG Import Price continues to trend downward. Chart on Page 5.

21: The number of LNG export projects that have been proposed in Alberta and British

Columbia. Story on Page 5.

$325M: The cost of a gas plant to be built about 100 kilometres north of Fort St. John.

Story on Page 6.

500,000: The capacity in bbls/day of Pembina Pipeline Corporation’s previously announced

$2-billion Phase III pipeline expansion. Story on Page 10.

$250M: What Fort Hills Energy L.P. awarded Técni-cas Reunidas for the cogeneration plant at the Fort

Hills oilsands mining project. Story on Page 11.

2 years: The number of years in which it will take Royal Dutch Shell plc to decide whether to de-

velop an LNG export terminal on Canada’s West Coast. Story on Page 12.

1st: City council approved a company’s proposal to build a liquefied natural gas processing and

storage facility within the Dawson Creek city lim-its. It is the first in the province. Story on Page 14.

$82,500: What TransCanada’s Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project donated to UNBC so 24 stu-dents can take an occupational health and safety

officer course. Story on Page 18.

2: The number of 20,000-horsepower natural gas turbines at Shell’s Saturn 1 Gas Plant.

Photo essay on Page 20.

200 million: The volume of gas per day in cubic feet that Shell’s Saturn 1 Gas Plant will

produce per day. Photo essay on Page 20.

$850,000: The amount of money raised by the Oil Rig Rumble for Mobember in 2011.

Story on Page 26.

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LNG conference was a success

14 DAWSON CREEk HOME TO B.C.’S FIRST LNG PLANT

14 CITY HAS SOME CONCERNS ON ALR

15 Huge camp with Merrick pipeline

16 Trudeau slammed for LNG comments

18 PIPELINE COMPANY FUNDS EDUCATION

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26 ARE YOU GOING TO DO MOVEMBER THIS YEAR?

28 Oil & gas conference in FN cancelled

29 ITA TO RECRUIT B.C. LNG WORkERS

30 IS B.C.’S TOURISM INDUSTRY THREATENED?

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Another LNG export project has been publicly announced. The proponent, Orca LNG Ltd., filed a licence with the National Energy Board to export gas from a yet-to-be-determined site near Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

Orca LNG applied for a 25-year term, starting on the date of first export. Subject to the annual tol-erance, the quantity of natural gas that may be exported in any con-secutive 12-month period would be 1.17 tcf, which corresponds to roughly 24 million tonnes per an-num (mtpa).

The point of export would be at the outlet of the loading arm of a

proposed liquefaction terminal that is expected to be located in the Prince Rupert area.

Pending NEB export decisions

On Sept. 4, Orca LNG Ltd ap-plied to liquefy and export 24 MTPA of LNG from in the vicinity of Prince Rupert.

On Aug. 28, Cedar LNG Export Development, a liquefied natu-ral gas export development com-pany owned by the Haisla Nation, filed three applications to liquefy and export LNG from a point in the Northern Douglas Chan-nel, in the District of Kitimat, for 142 Bcf, 284 Bcf and 284 Bcf, respectively.

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Left, the Henry Hub Natural Gas Spot Price (dollars per Million Btu) traded at $4.10 in the first week of December and began August at $3.77. Source: U.S. Energy Information Agency

The Japan LNG Import Price continues to trend downward after reaching all-time highs last year. Source: World Bank

The AECO “C” spot price, the Alberta gas trading price, nearly doubled in the past year to $4.13/Gj but fell to $3.60 in August. Source: Natural Gas Exchange

Alberta gas price

The so-called Alberta-B.C. Natural Gas Dis-count (ABCD) is the dif-ference in price that a BTU of natural gas costs in Tokyo compared to Alberta. Sources: Natural Gas Exchange, Bloomberg

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$325M gas plant to be built north of fsj

“We are very pleased to enter into this strategic alli-

ance with AltaGas,” said Patrick Ward, president and

CEO of Painted Pony. “We have established a strong

Two gas companies have agreed to partner up to help deliver gas from the Fort St. John region.

As part of that agreement, they have agreed to work to-gether to build a plant worth an estimated $325 to $350 million about 100 kilometres north of Fort St. John.

The agreement is between AltaGas – which controls quite a bit of the energy infrastruc-ture in the Peace Region – and

Painted Pony, a natural gas exploration and production company.

“We are very pleased to enter into this strategic alliance with AltaGas,” said Patrick Ward, president and CEO of Painted Pony. “We have established a strong working relation-ship with their team and our companies are fully aligned with respect to the potential for Montney gas develop-ment and the timing required for achieving our mutual goals.

The companies expect the

“Townsend” plant to be built by the end of 2015. The plant is expected to process 198 mil-lion cubic feet per day worth of natural gas. The gas pro-duced will be “sweet” – mean-ing it does not contain the poisonous hydrogen sulfide, which some other natural gas extracted does contain.

AltaGas already runs the Blair Creek plant about 20 kilometres north of the Townsend facility. Painted Pony has been a frequent cus-tomer at the existing plant.

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working relationship with their team and our companies are fully aligned

with respect to the potential for Montney gas development and the

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when the plant will begin con-struction, how many people the companies expect to employ dur-ing construction, how many peo-ple are expected to be employed after construction, or if these workers will be housed in camps or elsewhere.

After the plant is completed, the companies said in a release that they could expand the Townsend facility so that it could recover additional natural gas liquids as well as process and potentially sell more of Painted Pony’s natu-ral gas reserves.

Ward said that Painted Pony al-

ready owns the property, and that it is already partially developed for industrial purposes. He add-ed that they wanted to build the plant because they have already had success in the Montney re-gion around Fort St. John.

During the first and second quarters of 2015, they’ve in-creased production over 50 per cent, Ward said – and they would like a plant to process the gas they’re taking to make it suitable for the market.

Questions directed to AltaGas were not answered by press time.

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The project consists of a new 24-inch diameter pipeline that will originate from a

tie-in point at Pembina’s existing pump station at Fox Creek and terminate at a tie-in

point at Pembina’s existing facility at Namao Junction.

The necessary applications for the Fox Creek to Namao Junction segment of Pembina Pipeline Cor-poration’s previously announced $2-billion Phase III pipeline ex-pansion have been filed with the Alberta Energy Regulator, says the company.

Pembina expects the segment to have an initial capacity of 320,000 bbls per day and an ultimate capac-

ity of more than 500,000 bbls per day with the addition of midpoint pump stations.

Subject to regulatory approval, the project is expected to be in ser-vice between late-2016 and mid-2017.

As part of the project, Pembina also has completed consultation related to, and applied to the AER for, an additional 16-inch diameter

pipeline from Fox Creek to Namao. However, a decision to construct the second pipeline is pending commercial support, said the com-pany, which expects to decide on it later this year.

In the meantime, Pembina has begun construction on its $150-mil-lion Simonette pipeline expansion, which is part of the Phase III expan-sion between Simonette and Fox

Creek. The pipeline, which should be in operation in the third quarter of 2014, initially is expected to de-liver 40,000 bbls per day of liquids to Pembina’s Fox Creek terminal.

“We are very excited to reach this milestone for the core component of our Phase III expansion,” Jason Wiun, Pembina’s vice-president, conventional pipelines, said in a news release. — Daily Oil Bulletin

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The Alberta Energy Regulator has lifted an or-der that Plains Midstream Canada was subject to, which required additional regulatory scrutiny un-til it had satisfied the regulator it could operate in compliance with AER requirements.

“We are confident that they are moving in the right direction,”Darin Barter, an AER spokesman, said Monday.

In response to repeated non-compliance by the wholly-owned subsidiary of Houston, Texas-based Plains All American Pipeline L.P., the newly-created regulator last year took the unprecedent-ed step of requiring Plains to obtain the approval of the AER’s chief executive for all applications (DOB, July 5, 2013).

Between Jan. 1, 2011 and July 4, 2013, the AER issued and identified 19 high-and-low-risk defi-ciencies and regulatory non-compliant events, including 14 high-risk and five low-risk in con-nection with Plains’ AER-licenced pipelines and facilities. A number of high-risk non-compliances were related to major crude oil pipeline spills on the Rainbow pipeline in April 2011 and on the Rangeland South pipeline in June 2012.

Monday’s decision to lift the “global refer” order followed the release of a full audit report of the company’s Alberta operations. The purpose of the audit was to determine the effectiveness of Plains’ various management, oversight and reporting programs.


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Fort Hills Energy L.P. has awarded Técnicas Reunidas, an international engineering compa-ny based in Madrid, Spain, a lump sum turnkey model contract worth approximately C$250 mil-lion for the cogeneration plant at the Fort Hills oilsands mining project.

Fort Hills, which has planned production of 180,000 bbls per day of bitumen, is a partnership between Suncor Energy Inc.(40.8 per cent), To-tal E&P Canada Ltd. (39.2 per cent) andTeck Re-sources Limited (20 per cent).

The contract includes the engineering, pro-curement, construction and pre-commissioning, up to mechanical completion, for the installation of two nominal 85 megawatt gas turbines, two steam production heat recovery steam generators and all the related auxiliary systems for its inter-connection with the utilities system of the Fort Hills oilsands mine.

The cogen project is expected to be completed in 31 months.

The project is the first EPC power project in North America for Técnicas Reunidas, which said that its oil and shale gas investments in the region represent a substantial opportunity for the TR up-stream, downstream and power business.

The cogen project also represents a new area that consolidates its presence in Canada, where it has been executing projects since 2012, said Téc-nicas Reunidas.


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Royal Dutch Shell plc expects to decide whether to develop an LNG export terminal on Canada’s West Coast in about two years, analysts heard on Friday.

“We are aiming for FID [a final investment decision] in about two years followed by four to five years of construction and first LNG short-ly after,” Marvin Odum, Shell’s up-stream director for the Americas, told the company’s investor day in New York.

He said Shell could establish a one-million-tonne-a-year LNG ex-port operation in the first phase of the proposed Kitimat project.

“This is an exciting opportunity,” he said.

Odum said the company’s strong resource position in dry gas in West-ern Canada will be targeted at LNG.

To improve its profitability, Shell has been focusing on projects it believes can deliver cash flow rela-tively quickly. It sold assets it felt would take too long to develop profitably.

“In liquids-rich plays, we have re-tained Western Canada and Perm-ian acreage for further appraisal and development,” Odum said, noting the company has cut spend-ing in resources plays this year by more than 20 per cent. “Some 30 per cent of this is aimed at dry gas, where production is likely to de-cline somewhat, ahead of growth

into Canada LNG later in the decade.”

He said 70 per cent of resource-play spending is going into apprais-al of liquids-rich plays that have growth potential.

“In Canada, we continue to de-risk our exploration LRS [liquids-rich shale] acreage in the Montney and Duvernay formations in both

Alberta and British Columbia,” he added. “We are very encouraged from the early exploration and ap-praisal well results.

“These projects could offer ad-ditional value uplift opportunities through integration with the chem-icals business at Scotford or our heavy oil Carmon Creek project.”

By “integration” of liquids-rich shales with “heavy oil,” Odum pre-sumably means using condensate from plays such as the Duvernay to dilute Carmon Creek bitumen for pipelining.

After decades of experimenting with various production methods, Shell last year sanctioned construc-tion of the 40,000-bbl-a-day first phase of its Carmon Creek project in the Peace River heavy oilsands. The project will use vertical steam drive wells.

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City councillors have put off voting on a con-stroversial call for referendum on a proposed LNG facility in the city.

Instead, they are considering holding a town hall meeting next month on Woodfibre LNG, a proposed LNG export facility that would operate from a former pulp mill site.

A vote on the referendum question would only take place after that town hall meeting and once they have more information from a district-ap-pointed committee.

The issue goes to council tonight.The referendum idea was first raised at coun-

cil on July 15, when Coun. Patricia Heintzman suggested a question be added to the local ballots when Squamish goes to the polls in November.

Heintzman said the referendum will help gauge public opinion and make the public discourse more open.

She said she was sceptical of the information provided by the proponent and that the com-munity has felt alienated from decision making. “It’s the most divisive issue that I have seen in the council in a long time,” she said.

But some of her fellow councillors have ques-tioned her motives and said she is exploiting the issue for political gain.

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Squamish defers vote on Woodfibre LNG

The Canada LNG Export Confernece was helpd in Calgary from Sept. 16-18, bringing together industry leaders, government officials and First Na-tions representatives.

Speakers included Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ack-erman, Dave Byng, Former Deputy Minister, Min-istry of Jobs; , Hon. Perrin Beatty, President & CEO, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and Shinya Miyazaki, Chairman, Diamond Gas Management.

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City council approved a company’s proposal to build a liquefied natural gas process-ing and storage facility within the Dawson Creek city limits.

Chief administrator Jim Chute said that AltaGas Ltd.’s proposed facility will be the first ever built in Dawson Creek. He added that it will likely be the first LNG plant built in British Columbia.

However, unlike the facili-ties expected to fuel a LNG “boom,” the gas produced is intended for local markets.

“Instead of being put in a

tanker and shipped overseas, [the gas] will be put in trucks and shipped north,” Chute said. “The provincial govern-ment isn’t having any luck getting LNG plants built on the west coast, but we’ll have one in Dawson.”

The B.C. government hopes to export LNG to Asia, where the price is three to four times higher than in North America.

The AltaGas facility, slated to be built on a five acre par-cel on 27th Street, will pro-cess sweet natural gas, and will not “flare” or burn off ex-cess fuel. It will not emit any odours, and is certified “dark sky friendly.”

AltaGas’s facility was one of

several Premier Christy Clark touted on her visit to the Peace earlier this summer. At a stop at Northern Lights College in Dawson Creek, the premier signed a letter of in-tent with the company’s CEO.

“LNG is a cleaner, cheaper energy source for northern communities,” the premier said in a release. “This letter of intent is another milestone for the development of B.C.’s LNG industry – not just for ex-port, but also here at home.”

The facility is expected to produce 500,000 gallons of LNG per day at its peak, and will cost around $25 million.

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City has some concerns on ALR

Jonny WakefieldStaff Writer

Reforms to the Agricultural Land Reserve that could allow industry to operate on farm-land without seeking exclusion would cut the city of Dawson Creek out of the oil and gas boom. That’s one of the messages the city will deliver to Victoria as part of its feedback on the provincial government’s proposed chang-es to the ALR.

In May, B.C.’s Liberal government passed legislation to divide the land reserve into two zones – one for the Vancouver Island, the Okanagan and the south coast, and another for the interior, Kootenays and North.

The land reserve was created in the 1970s by the province’s first NDP government, as a way of protecting farmland from suburban sprawl. However, critics – especially in the Northeast – often complain that the ALR was created with the Fraser Valley in mind, and is an unnecessary layer of red tape.

The government is consulting local govern-ments on the reforms. Municipalities have until Friday to give feedback.

Among other things, the government has asked municipalities whether they support “expanding the parameters for when non-agricultural related businesses are allowed to operate on ALR properties in Zone 2.”

According to a city report delivered to council Monday, the most common non-ag-ricultural use of farmland is for oil and gas drilling.

Relaxing the rules around local permit-ting of industrial development in rural areas would likely send oil and gas related compa-nies fleeing to rural area, where property tax-es are significantly lower and development standards more lax.

“The result ... could well be a flight of ser-vicing companies out of the [city] boundaries to locate their premises in the surrounding rural area,” the report noted. “Fort St. John has identified significant negative impacts from this trend.”

“Out of the oil and gas boom, you would get nothing,” chief administrator Jim Chute told council.

Ultimately, council decided they could only support the relaxed rules if new oil and gas servicing companies agreed to build within the city. Alternatively, they could agree to come within municipal boundaries.

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Dawson Creek businesses are won-ding how much will trickle down from a $1.9 billion natural gas pipeline slated to run less than 40 kilometres outside town.

On June 4, TransCanada Corp. an-nounced it had been contracted to build a 260-kilometre pipeline from just outside Dawson Creek to Sum-mit Lake in the interior. From there, the gas will flow to Kitimat on exist-ing infrastructure.

Dubbed the Merrick Mainline, the project will transport natural gas from plays in the Northeast operated by Chevron and Apache – co-owners of the Kitimat LNG project.

Since the pipeline was announced, however, Apache Energy pulled out of the Kitimat LNG project, citing pressure from shareholders.

Davis Sheremata, a spokesperson for TransCanada, said the pipeline’s fate is up in the air.

“It is very difficult to know what impacts this could have, and we will need to study that in greater detail,” he wrote in an email. “According to our agreement, if the agreements exe-

cuted by Chevron/Apache terminate, any costs incurred [by TransCanada] will be covered by Apache.”

Shelley Milne, owner of Action Health and Safety, said what lo-cal businesses can gain all depends on which company TransCanada appoints as its contractor for the project.

“Some of the companies actually have databases [of local suppliers] and insist the general contractor use the local databases to find local ser-vices they can engage,” she said.

Action Health and Safety provides medic services for oil and gas pro-ducers. Milne said that unlike gov-ernment contracts, managers on many private projects won’t open contracts up for general bids – rely-ing instead on word of mouth or rela-tionships with past contractors.

Then there’s the recurring wor-ry about work camps. The Daw-son Creek Chamber of Commerce recently heard at a meeting with TransCanada that the project would include a 650-person work camp near Groundbirch – or somewhere between Dawson Creek and Chet-wynd; the precise location is unclear.

“I know TransCanada is working to create some systems to engage more

local businesses, but of course our concern is 650 men living out near Groundbirch,” said Chamber Execu-tive Director Kathleen Connolly.

For now, she said, she’s encourag-ing local businesses not to overex-tend themselves to get contracts that may not materialize.

The Chamber passed a motion at the B.C. Chamber of Commerce general meeting recently asking gov-ernment to streamline the permit-ting process for work camps and to require camp operators to buy cer-tain goods and services from local companies.

Work camps can be approved by several different government agen-cies, depending on where and for what purpose they’re built. Many lo-cal officials have complained about the difficulty of knowing even how many camps are operating at any given time.

The TransCanada project is still in the early stage, and whether it’s built depends on Kitimat LNG’s decision to invest in the project.

Of the 19 new LNG projects slated for development in northeast B.C., none have made final investment decisions.

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Jonny WakefieldStaff Writer

Dawson Creek businesses wondering how much will trickle down from the $1.9 billion natural gas pipeline slated to run less than 40 kilometres outside town.

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Some Northeast B.C. politicians are saying even a temporary halt to frack-ing could have dire effects on the re-gion that one of the front-runners in the 2015 prime minister’s race may not have fully considered, based on recent comments.

At a stop in New Brunswick last week, Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau said more scientific study is required before Canada ex-pands natural gas exploration and drilling.

“In terms of fracking and shale gas, we need to make sure that we have all the information, that there is proper science done,” Trudeau said. “That’s why we need to make sure that we’re strong on both the science and the long-term vision ... before we move ahead with that.”

But comments from the man who many polls say could unseat Prime Minister Stephen Harper have politi-cians in B.C.’s gas country firing back.

Northern Rockies Regional Munici-pality Mayor Bill Streeper condemned Trudeau’s statements, saying the Lib-eral leader was ill-informed.

“He has no idea about the oil patch at all,” he said. “To say that we need to

study fracking more shows the igno-rance that comes out of the East and the West.”

Streeper was also pessimistic about the future of northern B.C. if the Fed-eral government were to order a stop on shale gas exploration for further study.

He also compared Trudeau’s re-cent statements to the National En-ergy Program introduced by his father, Pierre Trudeau. The program, while intended to promote energy indepen-dence, was reviled in Western Canada because it aimed to keep domestic oil prices below world prices.

“So like father, like son,” Streeper said.

Conservative Senator Richard Neufeld, who represents the North-east, said any slowdown of natural gas development “would devastate us,” saying natural gas production “is what makes Northeast B.C. tick.”

A study released in November more than doubled the amount of natural gas thought to be trapped in the Mont-ney formation that straddles B.C. and Alberta. It was the first assessment of its kind for the region and estimated that the field can support commer-cial gas drilling activity for 150 years or longer. The volume of marketable gas is now believed to be 12.7 trillion cubic metres, which is roughly the vol-ume of Lake Superior.

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thing, and continues to do the right thing when it comes to researching fracking,” said Neufeld, who added that B.C. leads Canada in unconvention-al natural gas production.

There are currently 19 gas projects in various stages of development in B.C., two of which would transport natural gas produced in British Co-lumbia and Alberta to Oregon, where it would be liquefied and shipped to markets in Asia. The other 17 would be based up and down B.C.’s Pacific coast.

The opening of just five LNG plants by 2021 would create more than 60,000 jobs at peak construction, estimated the Grant Thornton LNG Employ-ment Impact Review. The re-port also estimated that anoth-er 75,000 jobs will be created after the five LNG projects are fully operational.

That’s one of the reasons Dawson Creek Mayor Dale Bumstead said that he was op-posed to shutting or slowing down the fracking industry to study the issue.

“I absolutely want it done safely,” he said. “[But] I haven’t seen anything to the contrary, where it’s causing this kind of issue.”

Bumstead also praised the existing regulations of the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission, and said that slowing resource de-velopment would cut funds for healthcare and education.

“We have to stop saying no to everything,” he said. “We all want more in terms of our so-cial programs.”

Some studies appear to back up Trudeau’s point, like one commissioned by Environ-ment Canada and released earlier this year, which stated “data about [fracking’s] poten-tial environmental impacts are neither sufficient nor conclu-sive.”

“There is reason to believe that shale gas development poses a risk to water resources, but the extent of that risk and whether substantial damage has already occurred, cannot be assessed because of a lack of scientific data and understand-ing,” the report concludes.

When asked for comment, Fort St. John Mayor Lori Acker-man said in an emailed state-ment that she supported fur-ther research.

“Canada is a resource nation and our resources support the development of our knowl-edge economy,” she wrote.

“We know that investment in research and development can make resource industries safer, more efficient, effective and leave a lighter footprint. I believe that R&D is where we should be putting the focus.”

But Prince George-Peace River MP Bob Zimmer said that Trudeau “needs to understand the science of hydraulic frack-ing and the LNG and also oil and gas industry as a whole and understand that it is safe.”

“There has been no issue of water contamination in B.C.’s history, not to mention across the continent,” he added. “There have been stories and innuendo, but they’ve been found baseless.”

Zimmer said that a morato-rium would be “catastrophic” for northern B.C.

“Even a slowdown wouldn’t be a good thing for British Columbians or Canadians. It wouldn’t be good for anybody,” he said. “I just wish he would do more research before he makes comments like that.”

Trudeau’s office did not re-turn phone calls seeking com-ment.

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TransCanada’s Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project do-nated $82,500 to UNBC so that the $7,000 course would be free for a single cohort of students. The project aims to construct a natural gas pipeline from a point

north of Hudson’s Hope to a pro-posed liquefied natural gas facil-ity on Lelu Island close to Prince Rupert.

“We’re very pleased with this donation from TransCanada to UNBC to help fund student spac-es in the occupational health and safety officer course that’s offered through continuing studies here at UNBC,” said Mark Dale, the university’s interim president.

“As we know, the natural resource sector is growing and there is in-creasing need to have qualified occupational health and safety officers. This program will help meet that need.”

“It’s important to build a strong, skilled workforce in North-ern B.C. and we can’t empha-size enough how important this is to TransCanada,” said Dale O’Dwyer, a safety manager with

TransCanada. “Should even a few of the LNG projects go [ahead] and the related natural pipeline approved, the demands on the labour force [would be] signifi-cant.”

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“We believe that the programs that create a safe work environ-ment are just as important as the construction,” O’Dwyer said. “As such, the occupational health and safety officer training will form an integral part of the future labour force.”

The course has been slightly modified to meet the needs of the pipeline company. The final day of the course has subjects specific to pipelines, but the rest of it is general enough to fit the needs of ten major industries, said Lisa Haslett, manager of continuing studies at UNBC.

The 24 students have not been selected yet.

“People need to apply to be part of the program and then out of the applications that come in, we’ll select [24] people based on eligibility,” she said, adding the university would be sending out application packages.

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and either have a Grade 12 educa-tion or complete an assessment.

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pay for the course was Sherry Ear-les, who choose to take it in March after she became unemployed. She said the course brought in speakers and gave her access to a network of resources and connec-tions. One of the highlights for her was the hands-on experience.

“We also went out and did some

site tours,” she said. “We did some inspections in different facilities and to me, that was very impor-tant.”

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inside saturn 1One year ago this month, Shell unveiled its new Saturn 1 Plant to company executives during a

commissioning tour at the new facility. The state-of-the-art plant has groundbreaking techniques in energy supply, water use and emissions reduction. “50 years from now, this Groundbirch facility will still be producing gas, supplying it to North America and Asia.”

The state-of-the-art facility possesses groundbreaking tech-niques in energy supply, water use and emissions reduction, as Shell looks to be a leader in effec-tive, mass-fuel extraction for sup-ply to B.C.’s coast.

“Forty years from now, 50 years from now, this Groundbirch fa-cility will still be producing gas, supplying it to North America and

Asia,” said Shell Canada’s onshore vice-president, Dave Todd, at the Saturn 1 opening one year ago.

“It’s taking the best of what we’ve got from this site and tweak-ing the bits we think we can do a little smarter for the next plant. It’s all about learning.”

Saturn 1’s inventive on-site proj-ects include its own electric plant, powered by two 20,000-horse-

power natural gas turbines, as well as a self-integrated recycled water system and two vapour re-covery units that allow for 100 per cent emissions control during the end-stage refrigeration process.

Furthermore, the plant’s ful-ly automated system requires the work of only four Shell operators.

At full capacity, it will produce

200 million cubic feet of gas per day — equivalent to roughly 6 per cent of the current natural gas production in British Columbia.

Shell plans to add two more Saturn plants in the next 10 years with the same capacity, meaning that when done, roughly a fifth of the province’s gas will come from these fields, based on 2013 data.

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“Forty years from now, 50 years from now, this Groundbirch facility will still be producing gas, supplying it to North America and Asia,” said

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From left: rayel Cooper, rej tetraul, Patty richards and Peter Dichrow walk the grounds of Shell’s Saturn 1 Gas Plant. the state-of-the-art facility possesses groundbreaking techniques in energy supply, water use and emissions reduction.

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Saturn 1’s inventive on-site projects include its own electric plant, powered by two 20,000-horsepower natural gas turbines.

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The slated completion date for the Merrick Mainline is 2020, al-though the pipeline is still await-ing approval from the National Energy Board.

“We’re telling our members that if these projects happen, and all this work comes out of it, to make sure they have access to capital so they can grow their business,” said Connolly. “But I’m not sure it’s the smartest thing to do right now until we know which of these LNG plants are actually going to see investment.”

Some businesses hire employ-ees specifically for the time-con-suming process of bidding on contracts. Major companies tend to have their own databases of businesses that provide certain services. In addition. BC Hydro and all levels of government have separate bidding systems.

A spokesperson for TransCanada said the company does have a policy to buy certain goods local-ly, but did not elaborate. Accord-ing to a fact sheet on the Merrick project, pipeline work creates “de-mand for local goods and services including food and accommoda-

tion, hardware, industrial parts, automotive parts and servicing, fuel and more.”

But according to Milne, some contractors won’t issue requests for bids on certain services – in-cluding water hauling, garbage removal health and safety.

“I would love to put work into bidding,” she said. “But unfortu-nately, we never get approached for that type of job.

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In July the Canadian unit of Fort Worth, Texas-based Quicksilver Resources applied to the National Energy Board to export up to 20 million tons per annum (mtpa) of LNG. The project is named Dis-covery LNG and would be based near the Campbell River on Van-couver Island.

In July, Woodside Energy Hold-ings, a unit of Australia’s Wood-side Petroleum, applied to the NEB for a license to export 20 mil-lion tonnes of super-chilled gas per year for 25 years from a pro-posed terminal on the Northwest-ern coast.

Last January Woodside pur-chased rights from the B.C. gov-ernment to build an export facil-ity at Grassy Point.

On July 8, 2014, Steelhead LNG applied for five licenses to export LNG from Vancouver Island for 25 years.

On June 20, 2014, WesPac Mid-stream Vancouver LLC applied to export up to 400 million cubic feet of liquefied gas a day from a lique-faction plant to be built in Delta, B.C.

On March 5, 2014, Canada Stew-art Energy Group Ltd. applied for

a permit to export 30 MMt of nat-ural gas per month for a period of 25 years from a liquefaction ter-minal to be located near Stewart.

On Dec. 18, 2013 Kitsault Energy

Ltd. applied for a permit to export up to 20 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year, for 25 years.

Export approvals

On May 1, 2014, Oregon LNG Marketing Company received permission from the NEB to ex-port 473 Bcf of natural gas to the U.S., where it will be liquefied and shipped to Asia. The export point is the vicinity of Kingsgate B.C.

On May 1, 2014, Aurora Lique-fied Natural Gas Ltd. received per-mission from the NEB to export 2.3 million tonnes of LNG per year for a 25-year term from a terminal near Prince Rupert, B.C.

On April. 16, 2014 Triton LNG Limited Partnership received per-mission from the NEB to export 2.3 million tonnes of LNG per year for a 25-year term from a floating processing plant.

On Feb. 20, 2014 Jordan Cove LNG L.P. was granted approval by the NEB to export 9 million tonnes of gas per year to the U.S. for 25 years, where it will be lique-fied and shipped to Asia.

On Dec. 16, 2013, Prince Rupert

LNG Exports Limited was granted a license to export 21.6 million tonnes of per year for a term of 25 years.

On Dec. 16, 2013, Pacific North-

West LNG received permission from the NEB to export 19.68 mil-lion tonnes of LNG per year. Pa-cific NorthWest LNG has emerged the frontrunner, potentially mak-ing an FID by year-end.

On Dec. 16, 2013, WCC LNG was granted a license to export 30 mil-lion tonnes of LNG per year for a term of 25 years.

On Dec. 16, 2013, Woodfibre

LNG Export Pte. Ltd. earned a li-cense to export 2.1 million tonnes of LNG per year for 25 years.

On Oct. 13, 2011, KM LNG was

granted a 20-year permit by the NEB to export an annual volume of 10 million tonnes of LNG. It was the first LNG export license issued by the NEB since the deregulation of the natural gas market in 1985.

On Feb. 2, 2012, BC LNG Export Co-operative LLC received a 20-year license from the NEB to ex-port 1.8 million tonnes of LNG per year.

On Feb. 4, 2013, LNG Canada

was awarded a 25-year permit from the NEB to export 24 million tonnes of LNG per year at a termi-nal that will be built near Kitimat.

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communityAre you going to do Movember this year?

The month of November means a chill in the air and the start of another long winter. It also means the begin-ning of Movember, a facial hair chal-lenge to raise money for men’s health that is fast becoming a tradition, par-ticularly in the oil and gas industry.

They even have a name for it: the Oil Rig Rumble, and it’s only getting bigger. 2011 saw 972 participants raise $850,000. In 2012, 1,391 people participated, raising $1.29 million.

Then last year saw the biggest num-bers yet, with 2,500 participants rais-ing over $1.5 million for Movember Canada.It isn’t just for men, either. “Mobros” are joined by “Mosisters” as they’re dubbed, who aid in fund-raising. That money supports three men’s health issues: prostrate cancer through research and programs, tes-

ticular cancer through research, and men’s mental health, which organiz-ers say is one area that’s particularly lacking.

“We’re trying to fund some grass-roots and some new innovative ap-proaches to dealing with what are becoming increasingly difficult in the men’s mental health space,” said Jeff Lohnes, business engagement man-ager for Movember Canada.

Lohnes credits the playful nature of the movement that has helped it catch on, particularly in the oil and gas sector. “I think the good type of people that are in that industry that don’t mind making fun of themselves a little bit for a month and having a laugh are the type of people who pick it up and are looking to do it,” he said.

Last year, the top earner for Mo-vember worldwide was a partici-pant from the Oil Rig Rumble out of Calgary.

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“I think part of the reason it’s done so well in that community is … it’s a male-dominated industry in terms of numbers of staff, so there’s that ap-petite for a cause that does support a lot of the individuals who are in the industry,” said Lohnes.

Another high earner, Neil Evans, was born and raised in Fort St. John. He’s been participating for four years, and has raised over $25,000 for the Movember cause.

“You look at the transient popula-tion and the oil workers up in this area, and there’s a lot of guys hang-ing around,” said Evans. “I hate to use the term ‘redneck,’ hopefully that’s not too discriminatory, but we have a very large redneck population, and they get right into it, growing moustaches.”

He said he’s also seen an uptake in the number of larger oil and gas com-panies that embrace the movement.

As for his own moustache, he de-scribed the thing as “absolutely hor-rible” and “patchy.” That just encour-ages him to raise more money. “My motto behind the whole thing is ‘I may not be able to grow a moustache,

but I make up for it in fundraising,’” he said.

He agreed that a sense of humour is important for participants. “It’s hi-larious to see guys who never wear a moustache, to see what comes out on their face. It’s rather entertaining,” he said.

As a manager at the Fort St. John Hospital, he understands the stakes only too well. and much of it is help-ing to battle the stigma that plagues discussion surrounding men’s health.

“[It’s great] to have something male-oriented that raises awareness about health, especially stuff that we don’t like to talk about, i.e. prostate cancer, testicular cancer, or mental health in men,” he said. “I fell in love with the whole idea of Movember, I really took it by the horns and pro-moted the hell out of it.”

Originally started in Australia, the Movember movement was imported to Canada in 2007. Last year, 176,000 Canadian mobros and mosisters raised just over $29-million, more money for the cause than in any oth-er participant country.

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The decision was made at a spe-cial meeting held on Tuesday.

“The conference has been can-celled due to…limited resources and low participation from key industrial and government stake-holders,” the Northern Rockies website states. “The conference was in competition with other re-lated events such as the Northeast B.C. Natural Gas Summit occurring in Vancouver.”

They wrote that it would be bet-

ter to cancel an event than “host an event that does not meet the needs of the local community.”

The event has been going on for over a decade, rotating between Fort Nelson, Fort St. John, and Dawson Creek. Northern Rockies Mayor Bill Streeper said that they had asked every provincial min-ister, ministry, and premier to at-tend, and the only response they received was a ‘no’ from Christy Clark’s office.

Streeper said it was “very disap-pointing.” He also blamed it on the slowdown of gas drilling in Fort Nelson, which he blamed in part on the long-delayed LNG taxation plans of the provincial govern-ment. [email protected]

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ITA creates new trade for LNG industry

B.C.’s Industry Training Authority (ITA) an-nounced the introduction of Construction Craft Worker (CCW) as B.C.’s 48th Red Seal trade. This move was in direct response to the LNG indus-try’s demand for skilled workers in the north of B.C., specifically construction trades helpers and labourers.

“Our organisation is very excited about hav-ing the CCW Red Seal occupation in B.C. This programme validates the work that our mem-bers have been doing for over 85 years,” said Dean Homewood, Training Plan Administra-tor, Construction & Specialized Workers’ Union (CSWU) Local 1611. “This occupation will unite the CCW programme across Canada and allow for the transferability of trained workers across Canada. The programme is needed because the labourer is the top manpower position required on the LNG project and/or the pipeline project.”

Recent LNG data indicates that the construc-tion of five LNG plants in B.C. between 2015 - 2024 would create a total industry investment of $175 billion, and up to 100 000 jobs: 58,700 di-rect and indirect construction jobs, 23,800 per-manent direct and indirect jobs for operations, and thousands more of induced jobs as a result of households having more income.

“The recent B.C.’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint po-sitions ITA to play a critical role in helping to meet the booming LNG industry’s workforce challenges,” said Gary Herman, CEO, ITA. “We heard there was an immediate need to amplify and raise the standard of excellence for the Con-struction Craft Worker trade here in B.C., and we responded. It’s a small but crucial step to help ensure we have the right people, in the right place, at the right time.”

Construction trade helpers and labourers are in high demand for LNG occupations, with an estimated demand for 11,800 construction trade helpers and labourers by 2018.

Construction craft workers work primarily outdoors; their tasks include site preparation and cleanup, setting up and removing access equipment, and working on concrete, masonry, steel, wood and precast erecting projects.

They handle materials and equipment, and

perform demolition, excavation and compac-tion activities.

“We are very pleased to support the launch of the new Construction Craft Worker pro-gramme,” said Randy Callaghan, Field Person-nel Advisor, PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc.

“This new programme will formally recognise the high level of skills required to perform work included in the trade. As a designated Red Seal trade, the formal technical training will increase the skills and abilities of the tradesperson while increasing both the productivity and quality of the work performed for the employer.”

“Creating the Construction Craft Worker Red Seal certification is another important example of our Blueprint in action,” said Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour. “Labour market data has identified a critical need for this trade in the LNG industry and other sectors of our growing economy, and through the ITA we are responding decisively to the demand.”

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Opponents of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry would have us believe that our apprecia-tion for pristine oceans and clean air is at risk if LNG tankers join the marine traffic already travel-ling our coastline.

These activists who engage in their own brand of political spin are not being held accountable for what they say, and have suc-cessfully rammed through deci-sions without proper debate.

Two municipal councils recent-ly passed resolutions opposing the Woodfibre LNG proposal be-fore even hearing from the pro-ponent. Not to mention, these resolutions seek to limit shipping in Howe Sound, when not unlike Burrard Inlet, shipping is hap-pening, and has been happening safely for decades.

Local MP John Weston is right when he said elected officials should wait until they know all the concerns, how significant they are, and what can be done to mitigate them before voting to

support or oppose a proposal.The Woodfibre LNG project has

a lot of positives: the site is zoned for industrial use, has a deep-water port and access to the BC Hydro grid. The District of Squa-mish estimates they’ll receive $2 million plus in taxes, annually, which is a significant amount in a community facing double digit increases to property taxes since the pulp mill closed in 2006.

Anti-industry activists waging a war against Woodfibre LNG’s proposed LNG processing and ex-port facility outside Squamish are

taking their fight to mayors and councillors.

The wealth that B.C. takes for granted — that funds our schools, hospitals and social programs — is directly correlated to industry like LNG. The resource industry is a major contributor to our prov-ince’s prosperity, so let’s get be-hind LNG in B.C.

— John Winter is President and CEO, BC Chamber of Commerce. The opinions expressed are his own and not necessarily those of PNN.

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Students in three programs at Northern Lights College have benefitted from a special $7,500 award provided by the Spectra Energy Foundation to support trades programs.

The funds supported students in the following programs:

· Wind Turbine Maintenance Technician: exam fees not in-cluded in regular program tu-ition were covered for seven students.

· Electrician: Skills Canada com-petitors Robbie McMullin and Hayden Stebing received funds to

help cover travel expenses to the national championships in To-ronto.

· Industrial Instrumentation Mechanic: A Level 3 Apprentice-ship student’s accommodation was covered while attending at the British Columbia Institute of Technology to complete a compo-nent of the Level 3 program.

“We are very appreciative of the generosity shown by the Spectra Energy Foundation in providing this funding that assisted 10 NLC students in resolving financial questions that could have poten-

tially had a negative impact on the students,” said Rene Trem-blay, Dean of Trades and Appren-ticeship.

“At Spectra Energy, it’s critically important for us to invest in the communities where we live and work,” said Gary Weilinger, Vice President External Affairs. “Sup-porting education and workforce development is a high prior-ity and ensures future success for these students.”

Student awards are adminis-tered by the NLC Foundation.

— Article provided by NLC.

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