B.C. government unveils new energy strategy to boost jobs, revenue

Premier Christy Clark delivers the keynote speech to Roundup 2012, the Annual Mineral Exploration Convention at the Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, January 25 2012. Photograph by: Gerry Kahrmann, PNG

 

B.C. Hydro will redraw its energy self-sufficiency policy as part of an ambitious government plan to create a new energy sector anchored on the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Asia.

As part of Premier Christy Clark’s jobs plan, the government has stated it wants to have three LNG plants up and running by 2020, the first of which is expected to be online in Kitimat by 2015.

At the unveiling of the government’s four-pronged natural gas strategy on Friday, Clark said the plants, if fully realized, will create up to 9,000 new construction jobs and 800 long-term jobs, and will pull in over a billion dollars of annual revenue.

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Editor's Note:  Watch out ..... sounds like a premier that we know.... SQUAWK!!  SQUAWK!!