Prime Minister Mark Carney was in Terrace, B.C., on Thursday and announced that two major projects in the province are being forwarded to the Major Projects Office for consideration.

The first, the Ksi Lisims LNG project , is a proposed 12-million-tonne-per-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) initiative on Pearse Island, close to the Alaska border.

It is located on treaty land owned in fee simple by the Nisga’a Nation. The Nisga’a Nation backs the project but it is opposed by other First Nations in the region.

It is a partnership between the Nisga’a First Nation, Texas-based Western LNG and Rockies LNG Limited.

Both the provincial and federal governments have signed off on the facility.

“The Nisga’a people are a remarkable and dramatic example of strength and resilience and fortitude

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