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.

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.

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 is supporting the long-term health of the community by working with the Squamish Hospital Foundation to invest in medical devices and infrastructure, like the pediatric Sim doll or the new CT scanner for the Squamish General Hospital while providing lasting benefits for residents of the Sea to Sky region.

Construction at the Woodfibre LNG site continues, focused on work to prepare the site for facility construction later this year, as well as preparatory work to welcome the floatel, which will house 652 non-local workers outside of the community of Squamish.

Through the Community Partnership Program, Woodfibre LNG was pleased to be able to support the Pemberton Fire Rescue with grant funding to acquire road rope rescue equipment crucial for low-angle situations.

The meeting is an opportunity to discuss marine updates and any potential issues that may arise during the construction of the Woodfibre LNG facility.

Woodfibre LNG president, Christine Kennedy, sets the record straight on Woodfibre LNG’s workforce accommodation strategy.