{"id":877043,"date":"2026-08-30T13:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877043\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T13:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:04:11","slug":"federal-support-crucial-for-bay-du-nord-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877043\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Support Crucial for Bay du Nord, says Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/energy-and-mines-minister-lloyd-parrott.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Federal Support Crucial for Bay du Nord, says Minister\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Energy and Mines Minister Lloyd Parrott (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Energy Minister Lloyd Parrott says he cannot overstate how important it is for the local oil and gas industry to have a government in Ottawa that supports what it does. <\/p>\n<p>Parrott says he has a \u201cdirect line\u201d to federal energy minister Tim Hodgson. <\/p>\n<p>He says having a federal government which supports energy development bodes well for projects like Bay du Nord. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the whole idea that we are now becoming greener with this project, helps.  I cannot even express the order of magnitude \u2013 understanding how much it will help us.\u201d Parrott said.<\/p>\n<p>He says the province has several \u201csuper\u201d players involved in the offshore \u201cthat are extremely interested in developing gas, brownfield, and we also have our greenfield gas that we have access to.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>He says this also opens the door to CCS (carbon capture and storage.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Energy and Mines Minister Lloyd Parrott (VOCM News) Energy Minister Lloyd Parrott says he cannot overstate how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-877043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877043","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=877043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}