What is a straddle plant?  Why do we want to build one at TETH?

Since the 1960s natural gas in northeast BC has been shipped by pipeline to greater Vancouver where it heats homes and powers the economy.

Natural gas includes impurities in the form of liquids — ethane, propane, butane, and others — known as natural gas liquids or “NGLs”.  Straddle plants extract these valuable liquids from the gas flow through a plant that taps into — or straddles — the gas pipeline.  The gas that emerges from this process and continues on to residential furnaces is cleaner and burns more efficiently – this means that less carbon is emitted.

The proposed straddle plant at TETH would extract these NGLs from the natural gas in the main gas pipeline as it passes through MLIB’s Reserve lands. These NGLs would then be shipped to customers in Japan, Korea, and other Asian nations through an export terminal being built in Prince Rupert.

Not only is the TETH’s proposed straddle plant a significant economic opportunity but the carbon reduction would reduce BC’s carbon footprint by an amount equal to taking 220,000 cars off the road every year.