North America

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Groups such as the LNG Alliance, contend that the proposed $10 increase to British Columbia's carbon tax, which would become effective in 2018, will negatively affect the trade of LNG, CBC News reported. Consumers and business currently pay a carbon tax of $30 per ton and some feel that if that number becomes higher, it may impede LNG investment in the province. Work crews have begun clearing land at the proposed site of LNG Canada in Kitimat, British Columbia, in an effort to get a jumpstart on the project should Shell and its partners on the 24 mtpy project decide to make an FID, which is scheduled to be made in 2016, according to the Times Colonist. Despite the physical progress being made, the Dawson Creek Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Kathleen Connolly expressed that the original enthusiasm for the project has waned and suspects it may be 20 years or more before the project is realized.