Blog: After 12 years, a huge step for Cedar LNG
The Cedar LNG project, now a partnership between the Haisla Nation and Pembina Pipeline Corporation, has been moving along for 12 years, including obtaining a natural-gas export licence, government approvals, and engineering and environmental design. Now it’s taken a truly significant step, selecting Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) of South Korea and Black & Veatch of…
Blog: To reduce emissions, the world needs more LNG
In a Christmas-week change of pace for our blog, here’s a look by Alberta’s Canadian Energy Centre at world demand for LNG: An additional $400 billion investment in liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects around the world is needed over the next decade to ensure energy security and achieve emissions reductions, according to a world report by Wood…
Blog: Key Asian markets seen for B.C. LNG
Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are good potential markets for B.C. liquefied natural gas — and for blue hydrogen and ammonia derived from our natural gas. This assessment is in a new report from the First Nations Climate Initiative (FNCI), whose members are the Haisla, Nisga’a, Metlakatla and Halfway River Nations. Both the Haisla and…
Blog: How ‘Article 6’ could help our LNG exports
Our blog, 29 November 2023 Article 6 of the international Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 spoke of “voluntary cooperation . . . to promote sustainable development and environmental integrity.” And at least in theory, Article 6 could be used to establish an international co-operative system of credits from emissions-reduction projects, and allow for international trade…
Blog: Time for a real plan on emissions
The federal government’s climate target for 2030 is a reduction of 40-45% of emissions nationally, compared to 2005 levels. And Ottawa is “committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.” Judging by the latest news, those targets are indeed merely hazy “targets.” As Parliament’s independent Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development reports: “The federal government…