Blog: Ottawa streamlining infrastructure approvals
As our blog this week, an update from law firm Norton Rose Fulbright on Bill C-39, the Building Canada Strong Act, and its goal of ‘One project, one review, one year.’ By Jay LeMoine: This bill amends several key pieces of legislation with the objective of broadening Canada’s access to global markets and supply chains to…
David Keane: Indigenous equity is reshaping Canada’s major projects
By David Keane, veteran LNG executive and special advisor to our Alliance Something significant is happening in Canada’s energy and resource sectors, and I believe it deserves considerably more attention than it has received. Indigenous Energy Monitor’s State of Indigenous Equity Ownership 2026 report that was released in April identified 546 Indigenous-owned energy and resource…
Blog: There’s more to natural gas than gas
Canada has been called “an absolute natural-gas powerhouse.” That from natural-resource advocate Canada Action, which adds that natural gas benefits Canadians in ways that include: Providing an affordable and reliable energy source for homes and businesses; Creating jobs nationwide, including more than 40,000 direct jobs in production, transmission, and distribution; Generating significant government revenues through…
Blog: LNG, net zero, and the power to get there
British Columbia’s original policy for new liquefied natural gas plants was clear: They must produce net-zero emissions by 2030. So, for one thing, there was to be no burning some of their incoming natural gas to generate the electricity needed to operate their LNG plant. Then reality struck home: There was simply no way that…
Blog: Big LNG decisions on the horizon
Investors short-hand it as FID: the Final Investment Decision, in which investors decide if a multi-billion-dollar mega-project gets a final green light and goes ahead. Now Canada and BC are awaiting vital FIDs on two LNG-for-export projects: One on the expansion of LNG Canada at Kitimat and one on the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG project…