Once it’s burned, gas processed at the Kitimat facility will produce more emissions than all other activities within BC.
Once Kitimat’s LNG facility is expanded, gas liquefied at the site and shipped to other countries will produce more greenhouse gases than all other emissions produced by the province of B.C. each year.
In September, LNG Canada’s joint partners made their final investment decision to double the plant’s capacity.
“The polar vortex, the ring of winds that help bottle up the planet’s coldest supply of air, is weakening dramatically. Major weather models expect a significant breakdown in a week or so — the earliest collapse ever recorded.” (Weather Watch, Bloomberg, Nov. 2, 2026)
The new federal budget pledges $6 billion over 10 years for Canada’s spy agency.
Mark Carney’s Liberal government has promised to give Canada’s spy agency a massive funding increase of around 60 per cent in this year’s federal budget, which was tabled in Ottawa yesterday.
Details about how the money will be spent, however, remain murky.
In a scathing report tabled Thursday on behalf of the Auditor General of Canada, a federal climate watchdog says Ottawa effectively broke its promise to ban thermal coal exports more than a year ago — but never told anyone.
Pipeline proposed to transport 1 million barrels of oil per day from Alberta to B.C. coast
Several First Nations in B.C. are challenging the federal government in court and seeking to overturn its decision to designate the Pacific Link pipeline project as a project of national interest.
Claire Seabron says she thinks Ottawa might look to claim credit for emissions reductions caused by LNG Canada shipments to Asia countries, where it will displace more carbon-intensive coal as an energy source.
The federal government could use a section in the 2015 Paris Treaty to claim credit for emissions reductions caused by foreign nations replacing coal with natural gas shipments from Canada, according to a former chief of staff to the energy minister.
TORONTO — U.S. asset manager Blackstone and four Canadian institutional investors have signed a US$3.1-billion deal to acquire a non-controlling stake in the Mitsubishi Corp. subsidiary that holds an interest in LNG Canada, the country’s first liquefied natural gas export facility.
A 6.5-million-barrel oil storage terminal south of Vancouver is planned for land that could turn to liquid in an earthquake.
The 260-hectare site is the end point of the proposed Pacific Link pipeline, which would sprawl more than 1,200 kilometres from Bruderheim, Alta., through Jasper National Park, to Roberts Bank, in Delta, BC.
