McNab Creek - Location of the proposed LNG Storage Facility

"It should be noted that the McNab Valley is an active logging area. An access road and a log sorting facility already exist in the area in support of existing forestry-related activity.

A major powerline follows the shoreline.

The adjacent waterway is part of what is reputed to be the largest booming ground in the world.

Locations adjacent to the proposed facility have been recently cut and the area will continue to be logged in the future. Industrial logging activity could occur almost anywhere in the entire valley.

The airshed containing the McNab Creek valley is heavily influenced from emissions from other industrial users in the area.

As a result,
the McNab Creek valley cannot be considered to be pristine or undisturbed. "

Doug Thorneycroft
Project Manager
Westcoast Gas Services Inc.
EAO website - February 1998

Twelve kilometres from Port Mellon, on The Sunshine Coast, in a valley surrounded by mountains is McNab Creek.

The above image of an LNG Storage Facility in Memphis is supplied by Westcoast Gas Services Inc. and is the image WGSI has used to show local organizations an example of an LNG Facility.

The author has requested measurements of the above tank (that has been cut off in the picture), the out buildings and the total area included in this image. That way a comparison with the proposed LNG Facility may be possible.

Westcoast Gas' response to the author's request for measurements, received 26 April 1999, follows:

"We're trying to get the information. Our tank will be about 75% larger in diameter than the one in the picture. The rest of the facility is similar in scale to what we are proposing. As soon as I have more specific information I will get it to you."

Doug Thorneycroft, Project Manager
Westcoast Gas Services Inc.
21 April 1999

The proposed LNG Facility in Howe Sound would be located on 60 acres of the McNab Creek area.

Visibility Issue: The proposed LNG Storage Tank would measure 52 x 74 metres or 173 x 247 feet.

With an average tree measuring 150 - 200 feet high, will the tank be visible?

"Please note that more than one half of the tank will be hidden by trees and it will be painted green to make it blend in with the background."

Doug Thorneycroft, Project Manager
Westcoast Gas Services Inc.
EAO website - February 1998