The province’s Environmental Assessment Office on Thursday maintained its permit for the proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) project, a 900-kilometre link between northeastern B.C. gasfields and the proposed Ksi Lisims export facility, the site of which The Logic reported from in April as part of its election coverage. (The Logic) 

Talking point: This is a key milestone for the project, and one that’s long been in the works. The PRGT pipeline, a 50-50 partnership between the Nisga’a Nation and Houston-based Western LNG, would be the second major conduit giving Canadian gas producers access to Asian buyers. Calgary’s TC Energy completed the other, the Coastal GasLink pipeline, in 2023. The PRGT project was first approved in 2014, but was later shelved after Malaysian energy giant Petronas cancelled its associated liquefied natural gas export facility in Prince Rupert. The original permit required work to be substantially started by last November in order for it to remain valid. The regulator on Thursday determined that the new owners had met that threshold.