Nicholas Fulford
39:04 - 39:53
“within within the usual sort of constraints around confidentiality, that the BC government were able to see pretty well every detail of the economics of the project before they made those concessions”
- Speaker
- Nicholas Fulford
- Timestamp
- 39:04 – 39:53
- Transcript
- SFIN-20260527-1330
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- May 27, 2026
From the transcript
They would have had EPC contractors lined up to build everything. As I say, they had almost all the agreements in place with the First Nations uh, and entities that, that they were crossing with the pipeline. So really, and then to answer your question about visibility, so British Columbia legislature, or certainly parts of it, um, they participated in a, in a kind of economic modeling exercise with Shell. So within within the usual sort of constraints around confidentiality, that the BC government were able to see pretty well every detail of the economics of the project before they made those concessions.
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