Quebec government has rejected the GNL Québec LNG project, in a victory for the tens of thousands of people who mobilized over the past three years. With this decision, the government is siding with the many scientists who have condemned the project, both because of the enormous GHG emissions it would have generated and because of the harmful effects on the St. Lawrence belugas.
“The Quebec government’s announcement of the rejection of the GNL Québec project demonstrates that there is no future for fossil fuel projects,” said the environmental groups. “With the death of the Energy East pipeline in 2017, the setback of Goldboro LNG earlier this month and the rejection of GNL Québec today, we can finally look forward to a future without new pipelines in la belle province.”
With Quebec rejecting a $14B LNG project, is the industry at a dead end in Canada?
Quebec’s environment minister recently cited environmental concerns as the reason to axe a proposed multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, but a glut of natural gas around the world is pushing some to ask if the industry is a dead end for Canada.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/07/23/news/is-lng-industry-dead-end-in-canada