Senior federal officials promoted a proposed liquefied natural gas facility in Quebec as having the potential to
export large volumes of\u00a0natural gas to Europe.<\/p>\n
The comments from public servants appear in a federal briefing document, obtained by The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n
Marinvest Energy Canada, a subsidiary of a Norwegian energy company, has proposed the project.<\/p>\n
The company has lobbied high-level government officials in a series of meetings\u00a0this year. The federal government has said little about the project, which is still in its very early stages. It would include a new natural gas pipeline and LNG export facility near Baie-Comeau, Que.<\/p>\n
But the internal documents show public servants were keen to hear the company’s views on the federal regulatory process in a meeting last spring.<\/p>\n
That meeting came as the Liberal government was preparing to table legislation to fast-track major projects.<\/p>\n
A briefing note says the project could position Canada to export “substantial volumes” of natural gas to Europe.<\/p>\n
Marinvest describes its meetings with government officials as preliminary, and says it hasn’t yet submitted a project for review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior federal officials promoted a proposed liquefied natural gas facility in Quebec as having the potential toexport large…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-185401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}