He noted that the aluminum industry has been Kitimat’s biggest employer for seven decades. Until a few years ago, Mr. Marce had been living in Langley, B.C., working in plumbing. Kitimat’s ...

"I thought my asthma had improved so much living in Kitimat, but it seems — this is what I believe — that as soon as Rio Tinto started up their SO2, increased their emissions, my asthma ...

He noted that Kitimat might end up facing issues with vacant housing if buyers simply use property as an investment instead of living in them or renting them out. "There could be something in ...

In a pristine river valley at the head of the Douglas Channel in northern British Columbia, the small-but-thriving town of Kitimat rests quietly near the snow-tipped mountains, surrounded by ...

where living expenses will be paid by the consortium. Local real estate prices surged from 2012 to 2014 during the modernization project at the Rio Tinto aluminum smelter in Kitimat, but the ...

But Kitimat’s boom has something of a downside to it, too. House prices have risen, and locals are worried that the cost of living will rise with them. Local contractors are so busy working for ...

While camps have been built to accommodate workers, some of them have spilled out into the communities, particularly when they have been given hefty living-out allowances. In Kitimat, housing ...

As Kitimat buzzes with activity, local housing investment is needed. The LNG Canada workers have been living in a workcamp, but Burnett said the town’s housing stock is aging and upgrades are needed.

“The Kitimat LNG proposal was designed to develop a new source ... Woodside said it had 560 employees living in Karratha, up 100 since 2018. The company said the frontline operations workforce would ...

Find her on Bluesky @amandafollett.bsky.social. The northern community of Kitimat was founded on aluminum. Today, its smelter, the only major smelter outside Quebec in Canada, employs more than ...

As Kitimat buzzes with activity, local housing investment is needed. The LNG Canada workers have been living in a workcamp, but Burnett said the town’s housing stock is aging and upgrades are ...