liquefied natural gas

BC can do better than Liquefied Natural Gas

Premier Christy Clark has summoned MLAs for a special summer session to pass through Bill-30, which will in effect approve a deal with Pacific Northwest LNG, a consortium led by Malaysian-owned firm Petronas, to extract and process Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in BC before shipping it to Asia. The environmental repercussions of this project shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. While LNG has been peddled as a less carbon-emitting alternative to Canada’s notoriously dirty oil sands, these projects are projected to account for 8.5 per cent of BC’s annual carbon emissions. The most galling part of this project, however,…

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