The B.C. government has approved the continued construction of a new pipeline project that could supply natural gas to a proposed floating liquefied natural gas export terminal off B.C.'s North Coast.

The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project is a joint venture between the Nisga'a Nation and Texas-based Western LNG.

The approximately 900-kilometre natural gas pipeline was originally proposed to run from Hudson's Hope in northeastern B.C. to Lelu Island, near Prince Rupert, though updated applications from the proponents would see the pipeline start in Chetwynd in order to avoid caribou habitat, as well as an alternative terminus point at Wil Milit on Pearse Island, about 82 kilometres north of the Port of Prince Rupert and closer to the proposed Ksi Lismns LNG export facility.

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