Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
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issued: 2024-06-05
issued: 1993-06-17
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note: Gas drilling to start ALDERGROVE - Drilling for natural gas will begin here next month, according to a June 10 release from the energy ministry. Minister Anne Edwards said, "Stringent conditions must be met by Conoco Canada Limited and its partners, Dynamic Oil Limited and Stateside Energy Limited, in their program to drill two natural gas exploration wells in the Langley area this summer." The two wells are the same two proposed for drilling in 1992, but plans were delayed when BC Gas withdrew from the partnership after the first exploratory well at Delta failed to produce significant volumes of natural gas. BC Gas was forbidden from passing along the exploration costs to its customers by the government and therefore was forced to abandon involvement in the other two wells. Final regulatory approvals were granted for the two wells on August 4, 1992 by the energy ministry, but drilling was postponed while a new partner was sought. The 1991 well in Delta's Mud Bay area faced litde, if any opposition from neighbors, but the lobby group, Friends of the Fraser Valley has continually opposed any exploration for gas in this part of the Fraser Valley. Curiously enough, large-scale exploration for gas on the other side of the border has encountered litde opposition, too. While a legislative order in council forbidding exploration for gas storage still stands, many residents believe that storage will be pursued by the government in the future should the wells not prove successful in finding gas. Conoco, Dynamic and Stateside Energy (an independent, Canadian oil and gas company based in Calgary) maintain that their interest in the Fraser Valley "is solely to find and produce natural gas." The companies point out that only the government can pursue the storage concept and sill others are forbidden to do so. Langley township councilor Muriel Arnason told The Star that news of the exploration work getting the provincial government's approval shows that the New Democrats "are doi…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Rudy Langmann, April 9, 2003.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0443876
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: [place of publication unknown] : [publisher not identified]
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text