This month’s announcement that the five LNG Canada partners will invest nearly $40 billion to build a liquefied natural gas plant and pipeline has been welcomed with celebrations across northern B.C.
Rightfully so – it's the single largest private investment in Canadian history.
It's even bigger news in the area in and around Fort St. John, where they put the N.G. in LNG. Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman joined Rick Cluff via Skype to tell us what kind of impact this project will have on her community.
Rick Cluff is an award-winning journalist who hosted the popular CBC Radio Vancouver morning program “The Early Edition” from 1997 until his retirement in April of 2018.
He has conducted more than 50,000 interviews and asked more than half a million questions, of prime ministers, premiers, presidents and some of the world’s biggest sports and entertainment personalities.
