By Cheryl Jahn

Coast GasLink camp

CoastalGasLink camp setting up near Vanderhoof

Jul 23, 2020 | 3:58 PM

Vanderhoof – What used to be a treed area adjacent to the Vanderhoof Airport is now a full-blow worker camp, or what Coastal GasLink likes to call a”lodge.”

“We have four pipeline contractors on Coastal GasLink,” says Kiel Giddens, with Coastal GasLink. “SA Energy is one of our pipeline contractors who are working in the Nechako region here and will be building about 180 kilometres of the pipeline project.”

From the outside, it looks like your average camp complete with ATCO trailers, but once inside, you feel as though you’re in a hotel, complete with all the services to accommodate workers who will be living there for as long as two years. Currently, the camp has just over 200 residents, but by the end of this summer, will house as many as 900 workers.

Coastal GasLink has a lease agreement with the District of Vanderhoof for the property.

“Forestry is where it is, but we want to build on to it,” says Gerry Thiessen, the Mayor of Vanderhoof. “And that’s why the Coastal GasLink camp here in Vanderhoof, that’s why mining and that’s why our continued manufacturing in town are all industries that will help us diversify.”

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All totalled, the pipeline is 670 kilometres in length and will carry natural gas from the Dawson Creek region to the TC facility in Kitimat.