North Shore LNG Terminal

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North Shore LNG Terminal is a proposed LNG project in Canada, which includes a collection of five regasification terminals.

Location

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Project Details

• Owner: Northeast Midstream LP, North Shore LNG Project
• Location: Marathon, Terrace Bay, Schreiber, Manitouwadge, and Wawa, all in Ontario, Canada
• Coordinates: Marathon: 48.717011,-86.388657; Terrace Bay: 48.784304,-87.096503; Schreiber: 48.809983,-87.266636; Manitouwadge: 49.126128,-85.828821; Wawa: 47.992732,-84.771015 (all approximate)
• Capacity:
• Status: Proposed
• Type: Import
• Trains: 5
• Start Year:

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Background

The North Shore LNG Project is a collaboration of five municipalities in Northwestern Ontario, Marathon, Terrace Bay, Schreiber, Manitouwadge, and Wawa. The proposed project involves transporting LNG by truck from Nipigon to local regasification facilities in each of the five North Shore municipalities. The North Shore LNG Project has partnered with Northeast Midstream LP to develop its regional natural gas delivery system. The goal is to design, construct, own, and operate local gas delivery systems in each of the municipalities, including the distribution mains, service pipes and meters as well as LNG storage tanks and associated vaporization systems.

In January of 2019, it was reported that the North Shore provincial government was providing $27 million toward the construction of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Nipigon.

In April 2022, Lakeshore Natural Gas, the local distribution company for the five Ontario municipalities, signed a letter of intent with Centarus Ltd for a long-term supply agreement of compressed natural gas. Compressed natural gas would be delivered from a Centarus plant in Red Rock, Ontario. Because Lakeshore is seeking to procure compressed natural gas, rather than LNG, the LNG project is presumed shelved.

As of February 2023, SN News Watch reported that Marathon and Terrace Bay had begun community consultations for the project, which is again considered to be proposed.