Aerial view of the LNG Canada site in Kitimat, B.C. with gas flare visible on June 26, 2025 Courtesy of LNG Canada

A town ‘built by industry’ adjusts to life as the liquefied natural gas capital of Canada

For the past few months, the buzz in the small coastal community of Kitimat, B.C., has been all about the flares.

LNG Canada , the newly completed gas liquefaction and export plant, began firing up its smokestack last fall, lighting the skies with a flame that got as tall as 90 metres at one point. That’s roughly the equivalent of four 18-wheeler trucks, stacked end-to-end on top of each other. It could be seen from more than 50 kilometres away, The Narwhal reports.

“When they first started the flaring, myself, my boy, and even my cats were affected by it,” Dustin Gaucher, a Hais

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