LNG Canada Plant Exceeds Flaring Limits

0:00It's April 9th. Welcome in. This is Vancouver News today, where local news meets AI. Documents revealed that the LNG Canada plant on British Columbia's North Coast flared way more gas than its permit allows for October through January. University of Victoria Researcher Laura Mnett got these monthly emissions reports be a freedom of information requests to the BC Energy Regulator. In that four-month stretch, warm and wet flares beat limits by 45 times on average, cold and dry by 40 times, and storage plus loading by. Five times. The plants in Kitamette, pipes in natural gas, chills its illiquid form, and ships it across the Pacific to Asian markets. LNG Canada says they're in early operations, so extra flaring is normal right now, but it drops big time during steady running. Local researcher Mnett, who studies flaring worldwide, calls it surprising that they've topped permits consistently since at least last September. She's flagged 10 community alerts for flaring events since early March,

1:02including one Tuesday that ran three hours with noise and visible smoke up to. 15 meters high. This marks Canada's first LNG export facility, owned by Shell and Asian partners, with first shipments leaving last summer. They're eyeing a second phase to double capacity under FastTrack Federal Review. Mnett's work shows LNG startups worldwide flare heavily for about two years on average, so these numbers highlight why environmental assessments got to. Factor that in from the jump to keep things real.