Calgary-based WestPac LNG said a fortnight ago that it wants to build the terminal and a 600 megawatt gas-fired power plant at the northern tip of Texada Island in between Vancouver Island and the mainland.
The announcement came just weeks after the government was still assessing how much crude was spilled after an accident.
A construction crew's backhoe had inadvertently broke a pipeline connecting a refinery to a refuelling facility in Burnaby.
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