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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc
Wasn't Petronas going to build some giant LNG terminal in Prince Rupert or something?
I don't recall exactly what happened, only that I knew someone that was offered a job on their legal team and they walked when the project was shelved. That was over 10 years ago so I might not be remembering correctly.
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It was going to be a massive project. There were some legitimate environmental concerns regarding sea grass (which acts as a fish hatchery) and the impact of the tankers on the local marine wildlife. The other big factor was one indigenous family that was violently opposing the project, going so far as to put a temporary building on an inhabitable rock on the jobsite to claim as their ancestral home and occasionally attacking the marine geotech surveyors boats with grappling hooks. When the Canadian government continued to be wishy-washy about the project it seems like Petronas decided it wasn't worth the trouble.