Thirteen years after B.C. politicians first started talking about it, actual liquefied natural gas was produced this week off the province’s north coast.
Once the cornerstone of former BC Liberal premier Christy Clark’s political agenda, the actual operation of LNG Canada in Kitimat officially began June 22 under BC NDP Premier David Eby.
“The potential of LNG is once in a generation,” Clark said in 2012.
She went on to infamously overplay the promise, suggesting the first of five facilities would be online by 2015 and the industry would go on to generate $1 trillion in GDP revenue to eventually eliminate the provincial debt. It didn’t happen.
The rationale,
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