The end of the Coastal GasLink pipeline is marked by the Kitimat Meter Station, a facility that will measure natural gas to be delivered to the LNG Canada plant, and at the end of 2020, construction of this facility will be mostly complete.

鈥淭he Wilde Lake Compressor station has been compared as the 鈥樷�� for Coastal GasLink. If that鈥檚 the case, then the Kitimat Meter Station takes the pulse,鈥� joked Matthew Shanks, project manager for the metering station.

While Wilde Lake facility construction is just beginning, Kitimat Meter Station construction is nearly complete.

鈥淲e began construction in June working with our prime contractor, Aecon. Over the past five months, we鈥檝e worked through a lot of wet weather, held a groundbreaking ceremony in August, and made significant construction progress. In fact, we鈥檝e now completed five of the , finishing with pipe installation,鈥� said Shanks.

The work was completed with no reportable safety incidents over 36,000 person-hours and an excess of 61,000 km, and in accordance with robust based on Dr. Bonnie Henry鈥檚 guidance.

鈥淎 big highlight was the final weld on the meter station piping performed near the end of November. With that complete, we will now take a pause on construction activities on the facility until we return for pressure testing the pipe, scheduled for the second quarter of 2021. In the meantime, we will construct the powerline infrastructure for the station,鈥� added Shanks.

Coastal GasLink is proud to be building more than just infrastructure. Our workers are committed to protecting the environment and supporting local communities as we progress the project.

Over the course of construction, significant effort was made to protect the environment, including relocating approximately 40,000 tadpoles locally for safe maturing.

Additionally, the team formed relationships with the District of Kitimat community, participating in volunteer activities such as a river clean-up. The team also raised money for the Kitimat Food Bank and the Tamitik Status of Women organization, which was matched by TC Energy as well as Aecon Group for a $12,400 donation, divided equally between the two groups.

This commitment is part of our extraordinary legacy in action. As M.J. Zimmerman, construction manager at the Kitimat Meter Station, put it, 鈥渢he legacy, the initiatives that Coastal GasLink is putting forward, it鈥檚 about doing things safe with quality, and being really proud of it when you鈥檙e done.鈥� He added that it鈥檚, 鈥渟omething you can talk about with your friends and colleagues, that we did it right.鈥�

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