(From Natural Gas World at the World Gas Conference) Nearly four years ago, five of the world’s most well-known players on the global natural gas stage sanctioned Canada’s first world-scale LNG export project – the 14mn mt/yr first phase of LNG Canada. Backed by names like global major Shell, Malaysia’s PETRONAS, PetroChina, Korea Gas and …
The federal government, which in February vetoed the planned Energie Saguenay LNG export project in Quebec, has suddenly decided that LNG exports in the Maritime provinces could be acceptable. Thus we have federal officials talking with two potential LNG exporters. Ottawa is looking at Spanish company Repsol’s LNG import facility in New Brunswick, for one, …
BC Hydro made a holier-than-thou post on Twitter on May 4: “‘Natural’ doesn’t mean clean. #FarewellFossilFuels.” It carried the following illustration: Other tweets from Hydro around that time promoted the merits of electric vehicles and home heat pumps. All well and good (the greener the better, of course) but the snide slap at natural gas …
Kitselas Nation supports LNG Leaders of the Kitselas First Nation went on camera to support the LNG Canada project, and talk about the benefits to their people. One was elected chief councillor Glenn Bennett: “I’m very pleased that we have a number of our members actually working on the project. We see people that are …
We often have to remind non-Indigenous people that Indigenous Peoples do not automatically speak with one voice. Some favour natural-resource development; some do not. Some are for oil and gas pipelines, and some are against. But First Nations people do agree on this: They care for the natural environment. They have done so for countless …
