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The on-again, off-again LNG boom in British Columbia is continuing on its uncertain path.

As setbacks to the much-hyped energy windfall continue to arise — the threats to coastal eelgrass is the latest — and make the letters L-N-G seemingly stand for Likely No Go, the nascent liquefied natural gas industry got a boost from one of its key players.

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“We are looking to achieve a conditional final investment decision in the coming weeks,” Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin, chief executive of Malaysia’s state energy company Petronas, said Friday in Kuala Lumpur. “We will continue to have constructive engagements with the First Nation, and keep all avenues open as we move forward.”

The company said it must still resolve First Nation concerns — the most recent centres around habitat for salmon near the site of the proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG facility — before it will definitively proceed with its $36-billion overall development plan.