Canadian Chamber of Commerce report released today urges the federal government to finally get serious about building the infrastructure necessary to fast-track the extraction and export of #LNG
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The challenges, the report acknowledges, are myriad.
First and foremost is Canadaβs glaring lack of the necessary infrastructure β pipelines and export terminals, particularly on the east coast β to get its gas to international markets.
First and foremost is Canadaβs glaring lack of the necessary infrastructure β pipelines and export terminals, particularly on the east coast β to get its gas to international markets.
Since 2008, no fewer than 18 new LNG export terminals have been proposed, Miller writes, including 13 in B.C., three in Nova Scotia and two in Quebec. Only the LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, B.C., is anywhere near completion.
βHad Canada supported the construction of even a fraction of these terminals, it would have been at the centre of support for growing Asian and European markets that are in desperate need of LNG, and would be actively contributing to the displacement of coal.β
βThis opportunity to supply Germany has now passed Canada by,β Miller writes. βQatar, not Canada, will now get the economic and employment benefits of producing and shipping gas to Germany.β
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