Coastal GasLink pipeline project 98 per cent complete
Posted September 29, 2023 9:53 am.
TC Energy Corp. says its Coastal GasLink pipeline project is 98 per cent complete.
Coastal GasLink is a 670-kilometre pipeline spanning northern British Columbia that will carry natural gas across the province to the LNG Canada processing and export facility in Kitimat, B.C.
TC Energy says the pipeline will be mechanically complete before the end of the year.
Earlier this year, the company raised the estimated project price tag for Coastal GasLink to $14.5 billion, up significantly from a previous estimate of $11.2 billion and more than double the initial cost estimate of $6.2 billion.
Related Article: Coastal GasLink fined for ‘repeated non-compliance’
Over the course of the project, the pipeline’s construction has also attracted opposition and protests from environmentalists and Indigenous leaders.
It comes as CGL was fined a total $346,000 for what it is calling “non-compliance with requirements of its environmental assessment certificate.”
Two penalties were issued last week by the Environmental Assessment Office (EAO), with $340,000 in fines the result of “deficiencies with erosion and sediment control measures.”
Those deficiencies, the province says, were identified by compliance and enforcement officers who surveyed the pipeline construction route in April and May of 2022.
The province says an additional $6,000 in fines was issued for “false and misleading information” related to maintenance inspection records in October of that year.
“These latest financial penalties reflect the EAO’s continued escalation of enforcement due to repeated non-compliance with EAO requirements,” the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy said in a pervious statement.
