Province says no to nat gas exploration in Klappan region
Posted December 18, 2012 11:25 am.
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TERRACE (NEWS1130) – The BC government will not allow natural-gas exploration 200 kilometres north of Terrace in the Klappan region, where a four-year-old moratorium was about to expire.
Aboriginal groups, local governments and environmental activists opposed Shell’s plan to explore for gas in the Klappan, leading to the moratorium.
The area is nicknamed the “sacred headwaters” because the Skeena, Nass and Stikine rivers that flow thrrough it.
Shell is being compensated with $20 million in royalty credits from the provincial government, and will build a water recycling project.