News & Insights

The Mt. Chaki Canoe Club has preserved the cultural heritage of canoeing for over 24 years, helping youth connect with their roots through racing and tradition. With the support of the Woodfibre LNG Community Partnership Program, the club continues to foster values of discipline, teamwork, and respect for the land and water while offering a second family for its members. The Community Partnership Program funding has been essential in helping the club focus on training, race preparation, and youth development.

Construction continues on the Woodfibre LNG facility, including work on foundations for the LNG processing equipment and modules that are expected to begin arriving at site in 2025.

Woodfibre LNG’s Operator Training Program recently entered the Power Engineering Phase — in which candidates advance to learn the skills needed for long-term careers as Process Operators at the facility. The Operator Training Program is a two-year initiative offering Indigenous students, particularly Squamish Nation people, the chance to gain valuable, hands-on experience while preparing for careers as Process Operators.

Squamish and Sea-to-Sky region non-profit organizations are invited to apply for up to $5,000 of funding by October 11, 2024.

Woodfibre LNG has commenced concrete pouring for piperack foundations. The floatel is in place at the project site, currently providing accommodation for the construction workforce of approximately 350 people and expected to ramp up to full occupancy in the coming weeks.

Woodfibre LNG took its name from its immediate predecessor, the old Woodfibre pulp mill that operated on the site throughout most of the 20th century and eventually closed in 2006. But for centuries before the former Woodfibre pulp mill was built, the site was known by a different name: Swiy̓át, a village of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh […]

To help maximize training and employment opportunities with the Squamish Nation, Woodfibre LNG has partnered with the Nation to develop its Operator Training Program – a unique opportunity for Squamish Nation members interested in a career with Woodfibre LNG to meet program entry criteria – and receive career training without the financial and other barriers associated with many post-secondary programs.

Woodfibre LNG is pleased to announce that our floating work camp accommodation has berthed at the Project site in compliance with the Order issued on Monday, June 17th by the BC Environmental Assessment Office.

On Monday, June 17, 2024, Woodfibre LNG received a Compliance Order from the BC Environmental Assessment Office, requiring Woodfibre LNG to deploy the floatel to site and to use the vessel for non-local workforce accommodation in accordance with the amended Environmental Assessment Certificate.

Woodfibre LNG is delighted to announce donations totaling $150,000 to 50 local non-profits in Squamish and Squamish Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) as part of the company’s spring intake of the 2024 Community Partnership Program.

Toni Dumais, a member of the Woodfibre LNG Gender Safety Advisory Committee, discusses how initiatives like this one are paving the way for a more inclusive and equitable future.

Woodfibre LNG issues the following statement in clarification of questions and comments raised over the past several weeks by members of District of Squamish Council.