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B.C.'s Cedar LNG project gets federal green light

Federal Environment minister approves Haisla First Nation's Cedar LNG project
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Haisla Chief Crystal Smith, at podium, at Tuesday's press conference where provincial approval of Cedar LNG project was announced

One day after the B.C. government gave the Haisla First Nation's $3 billion Cedar LNG project the green light to proceed, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has followed suit with a federal stamp of approval.

The Cedar LNG project in Kitimat was reviewed under a substitution process, in which the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) was the lead government agency conducting an environmental review.

Substitution is used to avoid duplication of processes when a project is required to go through both a federal and provincial environmental review.

On Tuesday, the provincial ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy approved the project, and today Guilbeault also approved the project, with a finding that the project "is not likely to result in adverse direct or incidental effects as defined under section 2 of the Impact Assessment Act."

The federal approval comes with 250 conditions for the life of the project.

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