Close to 200 people packed the Margaret Patrick Memorial on Monday to listen to representatives from the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission.
Sean Turner, Chief Operating Officer for Gladstein, Neandross & associates is a consultant for clean transportation and energy, demonstrated what liquid gas is.
Chief Wilf Adam spoke to the Lake Babine Nation membership before the liquid natural gas (LNG) demonstration started.
Sean Turner explained that LNG is stored as a cryogenic liquid – at temperate around minus 150 degrees but once warmed up, becomes a gas as he showed this by filling a balloon. Turner then poured the LNG into a pan of water and showed how the gas only froze the water as it completely dissipated. Once the ice melted he then drank the water in the pan to show the crowd that it was harmless. Liquid natural gas is odourless, non toxic, non corrosive and will not contaminate the water, ground or air.
The approximately 900-kilometre pipeline is expected to deliver natural gas from a point near the District of Hudson’s Hope to the proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG facility within the District of Port Edward on Lelu Island. Of all the LNG produced in the world 70 per cent of it is purchased by Asian markets.
