Woodfibre LNG says the regulatory framework it operates limits the use of hotels in Squamish to five nights. Sean Bardow, a media relations representative for WLNG, said none of the company’s construction workforce is staying in hotels in Squamish.
He said the company does utilize Squamish hotels for occasional visits from its Houston-based engineering management team and some overnight stays by members of the Vancouver office team when involved in back-to-back days of cultural and gender safety training on-site. This is done following a regulatory framework.
“The regulatory framework limits the use of hotels in Squamish to a maximum of five nights, not regularly recurring, and any hotel use is pre-authorized by the company,” Bardow said.
He didn’t clarify, however, if the five nights were allowed in a month, six months or a year. He referred to the Community Services and Infrastructure Management plan approved by the Province, “Use of hotels in Squamish is not permitted, other than for short-term use, not regularly recurring stays of no more than five nights. This applies to Woodfibre LNG and all contractors, subcontractors and suppliers on the project and can be varied only by a written exception from Woodfibre LNG President of names designate.”
In November last year, the company announced that it had selected Bridgemans Services Group to provide on-site accommodation for WLNG workers on a floated, a former massive cruise ship MV Isabelle that will house 600 workers.
“The MV Isabelle is currently harboured outside Nanaimo, awaiting a Temporary Use Permit (TUP) for using the floatel from the District of Squamish. The District holds its first meeting on the TUP on March 26, and we look forward to a timely decision to enable the floatel and its capacity to accommodate 650 workers at the Project site,” Bardow said.
“By housing our non-local construction workforce on the floatel, things like housing, traffic and local services and infrastructure are unaffected in Squamish.”
