Planned facility will have a capacity of 12 million metric tons a year, operating as soon as 2028

The Ksi Lisims LNG project in northwestern B.C., a $10-billion floating facility to export liquefied natural gas off its northwest coast, has been given an environmental green light.

Provincial Environment Minister Tamara Davidson and Energy Minister Adrian Dix announced Monday that the project, involving two floating LNG facilities off Pearse Island, had received an environmental assessment certificate.

Ksi Lisims LNG — backed by Blackstone Inc.-funded Western LNG, as well as Rockies LNG Partners and the Nisga’a Nation, an Indigenous group that owns the development land — is the first such major project to be approved under Prime Minister Mark Carney. The former central banker has taken a

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