Varcoe: Canadian gas producers see door to global markets as LNG facility makes federal major projects list

Natural gas producers in Western Canada watched closely as the Carney government added the Ksi Lisims LNG development in northern British Columbia to its major projects list on Thursday.

It sets the table for a fourth liquefied natural gas facility that could eventually export supercooled natural gas from Canada to the world.

For Birchcliff Energy CEO Chris Carlsen, it also ushers in a different kind of project — one that will eventually enable a dozen western Canadian gas producers to fetch a global price for their resource.

“It’s recognition of a made-in-Canada LNG project,” said Carlsen, whose company is one of 12 gas producers in Rockies LNG Partners, a consortium that is co-developing the venture with the Nisga’a Nation (which is leading the initiative) and U.S.-based Western LNG.