Blog: Power challenge for LNG Canada Phase 2
LNG Canada’s look at the potential for expansion has taken a significant step. The company has begun discussions with potential contractors in China for building modules for proposed Phase 2 expansion of the Kitimat plant. China built 215 modules, of varying sizes, that have gone into LNG Canada Phase 1. The first major module, weighing…
NL Nation pushes for Atlantic LNG exports
Chief Mi’sel Joe of the Miawpukek First Nation has a vision for exports to Europe of LNG from Newfoundland and Labrador, even if Prime Minister Trudeau doesn’t. The PM declared a year ago that there has “never been a strong business case” for LNG exports from Canada’s East Coast to Europe; he proposed that, instead,…
Blog: Small nuclear power plants for Indigenous communities?
After a 30-year pause, Canada is getting back into nuclear power generation. And there’s a developing type of nuclear power generators — Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) — that could be of interest to some of the 200 or so Indigenous communities in Canada that still have to depend on diesel generators for their electricity. The…
Blog: B.C. LNG faces tough competition
A federal minister, speaking at the world LNG2023 conference about LNG exports, said that “Canada must keep pace because we cannot afford to fall behind.” But as Randy Boissonnault, Canada’s tourism minister and associate minister of finance, spoke in Vancouver, there came word of even more competition for Canada’s exports of LNG from the West…
Blog: ‘Canadian LNG is Indigenous’
We’re most happy to have posted this week, during the world LNG2023 conference in Vancouver, a special look at LNG: “Canadian LNG is Indigenous. Indigenous values are powering Canada’s low-carbon LNG opportunity.” A new page at https://indigenouslng.ca/ pointed out how Indigenous-supported LNG from Canada offers clear solutions for the world’s energy trilemma, how it means…