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PIPELINES Pacific Trail Pipeline - 487 km from Summit Lake to Kitimat; Environmental Certificate issued 2008; to be linked to Kitimat LNG export terminal; no final investment decision made by owners Apache Corp. and Chevron Canada.

WHAT IS LNG? Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas cooled to -160 C, when it becomes a liquid approximately 600 times denser than natural gas at room temperature.

Canada has massive natural gas reserves -much of it concentrated in B.C.

Over the past decade, northwest B.C. suffered a series of economic blows that saw thousands of jobs and residents leave the area. But the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry has the potential to transform northwest B.C.

Energy companies are expected to spend billions of dollars building natural gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals in northern B.C. during the next decade.

Prince George's criminal lawyers will be taking a pass on a month-long campaign aimed at pressuring the provincial government to boost funding for legal aid but could be joining followup actions.

A Prince George man who was arrested three times on drug trafficking charges over a four-month span was sentenced Thursday to a further six months in jail.

A Prince George man has been sentenced to a further 18 months in jail for attempting to sell stolen firearms through accomplices while he was in custody at the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre.

Results of an investigation by the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP into the shooting death of Canadian military veteran Greg Matters should be ready by late summer, a spokesman said Friday.

If it's better to teach a person to fish than to give them one, it's best to start early.