Construction on Kitimat’s second major LNG facility, and first majority-Indigenous owned one on Earth, Cedar LNG, is now 70 percent done.
Welding work on the pipeline that will feed it wrapped up in June, and pressure tests have been underway since.
As for the floating terminal at the heart of the project, it’s about three-quarters finished.
It also now has a name, megúgu, meaning “Spirit of the Cedar Tree” in the xa’isla language.
In Haisla tradition, megúgu was a benevolent being who could change form and used his knowledge to help others.
He took on the form of a human to teach them how to turn a cedar tree into a canoe.
The name was chosen by Haisla members from a number of names put forward by Elders and the Haisla Language and Culture Department.
Delivery of the terminal from South Korea, where it’s being built, is expected by late-2028.
