Tilbury Island LNG Terminal
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Tilbury Island LNG Terminal is an operating LNG terminal in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. Expansions to the facility have been proposed.
Location
Project Details
Tilbury Island LNG Terminal
- Owner: FortisBC[1]
- Parent: Fortis Inc.[2]
- Location: Tilbury Island, Delta, British Columbia, Canada[1]
- Coordinates: 49.14251084, -123.03408252 (exact)
- Capacity: 120,000 cubic meters per day (0.03 mtpa)[1]
- Status: Operating
- Type: Export
- Start Year: 1971[1]
- Associated Infrastructure: Tilbury Marine Jetty LNG project
Phase 1a Expansion
- Location: Tilbury Island, Delta, British Columbia, Canada[1]
- Coordinates: 49.14251084, -123.03408252 (exact)
- Capacity: 0.25[3]
- Status: Operating[3]
- Type: Export[3]
- Start year: 2018[3]
- Associated infrastructure: Tilbury Marine Jetty LNG project
Phase 1b Expansion
- Location: Tilbury Island, Delta, British Columbia, Canada[1]
- Coordinates: 49.14251084, -123.03408252 (exact)
- Capacity: 0.65 mtpa[3]
- Status: Proposed[3]
- Type: Export[3]
- Associated infrastructure: Tilbury Marine Jetty LNG project
Phase 2 Expansion
- Location: Tilbury Island, Delta, British Columbia, Canada[1]
- Coordinates: 49.14251084, -123.03408252 (exact)
- Capacity: 2.5 mtpa[4]
- Status: Proposed[4]
- Type: Export[4]
- Start year: 2028[4]
- Associated infrastructure: Tilbury Marine Jetty LNG project
Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day
Background
Tilbury Island LNG Terminal is an export terminal in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. The facility has been operating since 1971 and has a liquefaction capacity of 120,000 cubic meters per day (0.03 mtpa).[1] The facility is owned by FortisBC, a subsidiary of Fortis Inc.[1][2]
Phase 1 and Phase 2 expansions to the facility have been proposed. Phase 1 is split into two components, the first of which (Phase 1a) came online in 2018 and added 0.25 mtpa to the facility's capacity. The second part of Phase 1 (Phase 1b) is set to come online in 2028 and would expand the facility's liquefaction capacity by 0.65 mtpa. Phase 2, set to come online in 2028, would expand the facility's liquefaction capacity by 2.5 mtpa.[3][4]
The facility would provide LNG to the proposed Tilbury Marine Jetty LNG project, which is co-owned by FortisBC and Seaspan[5]
Tilbury Marine Jetty LNG Project
The Tilbury Marine Jetty LNG Project is a marine jetty project in British Columbia, Canada that was first proposed in 2015.[6][5] The jetty would receive its LNG from the adjacent Tilbury Island LNG Terminal. The facility would have an export capacity of 3 mtpa, and is expected to cost CAN$150 million to build. [7]A subsidiary of US-based WesPac Midstream is undertaking the jetty project, which would allow LNG carriers to load LNG for transport to “regional and offshore markets” and to fuel marine vessels such as BC Ferries. The project backers aim to sell 3 million metric tons per year from the facility. FortisBC had inked an 800,000-metric-ton-per-year LNG export agreement with Hawaiian Electric, but the deal fell through in mid-2016, likely affecting the finances of the jetty project. As of early 2017 FortisBC stated that it was seeking other export partners.[8]
A provincial environmental review began in March of 2019.[9]
In 2021 the project was renamed the Tilbury Marine Jetty project and the project proponent Westpac Midstream-Vancouver LLC was replaced by the Tilbury Jetty Limited Partnership, a partnership between affiliates of FortisBC and Seaspan.[5]
As of September 2021, the project is undergoing an environmental assessment and is under review by the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office (BC EAO) as well as under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada.[5]
In January 2023, the Snuneymuxw First Nation and FortisBC signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of the project. The agreement "respects Snuneymuxw's rights in relation to the potential project impacts and represents a commitment to share benefits related to the Tilbury Projects, and states that "Snuneymuxw has committed to supporting Tilbury Projects and participating in regulatory processes..." The agreement does not indicate that Snuneymuxw will take a stake in the project.[10]
The project received approval from the Provincial and Canadian governments in March and July 2024, respectively.[11][12]
Opposition
In July 2022, the Vancouver Sun reported that Metro Vancouver's climate action committee recommended the regional board oppose the expansion project proposal under consideration by the B.C. Environmental Office “because of overall concerns related to upstream and downstream greenhouse-gas emissions and inconsistency with Metro Vancouver climate targets.”[13]
In January 2023, The Globe and Mail reported that the project had "emerged as a battleground over whether governments that have pledged to fight climate change should approve new projects to export liquefied natural gas," with environmental groups including Wilderness Committee and Stand.earth opposing it.[14]
Following the project's Provincial approval in March 2024, a climate campaigner for the Wilderness Committee called the approval a "'slap in the face'" to all those who have opposed the project over the past decade, and that it undermines the province's own climate commitments." The campaigner the concerns that traffic and noise from the facility will disturb salmon habitat and consequentially threaten endangered orca that depend on the fish.[11]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 "Liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities". www.fortisbc.com/est. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 FortisBC Annual Information Form For the Year Ended December 31, 2020 Dated March 12, 2021. FortisBC. March 12, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Tilbury Phase 1 LNG Expansion Project. FortisBC. Accessed May 2022.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Tilbury Phase 2 LNG Expansion project. FortisBC. Accessed May 2022.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Delta wants more answers on LNG jetty project". Delta Optimist. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ↑ WesPac Marine Terminal, News, accessed April 2017
- ↑ B.C. Begins Environmental Review for $150-Million LNG Terminal on Tilbury Island. The Energy Mix. March 27, 2019.
- ↑ "Mapping BC's LNG Proposals: Twenty projects stall as provincial government’s liquefied natural gas ‘gold rush’ busts," Sightline Institute, March 2017 (contains further footnotes in text)
- ↑ New LNG bunkering terminal floated – literally Hellenic Shipping News, March 26, 2019
- ↑ FortisBC Holdings Inc. "Snuneymuxw First Nation and FortisBC Holdings Inc. sign agreement for Tilbury LNG projects, strengthening long-standing relationship". www.newswire.ca. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 CBC. Provincial approval of new jetty for LNG exports a 'slap in the face,' says environmental group. March 28, 2024.
- ↑ Staff, LNG Prime (2024-07-05). "FortisBC: Tilbury LNG jetty gets OK from Canada". LNG Prime. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
- ↑ Vancouver Sun. Metro Vancouver called on to oppose Fortis B.C. LNG expansion. July 27, 2022.
- ↑ "Tilbury energy project emerges as battleground over planned LNG exports from Canada". The Globe and Mail. 2023-01-17. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
