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Liquefied natural gas (LNG)

Liquified Natural Gas, or LNG, is a carbon-intensive fossil fuel. Companies and governments are falsely suggesting that LNG is a bridge fuel towards a low-carbon future, but that could not be further from the truth. Producing LNG requires extracting natural gas — usually using fracking — cooling the gas to extreme temperatures, shipping the LNG across the ocean, and then burning it for electricity production. Every step of this process is very energy intensive, and LNG companies greenwash the process by promising to use unproven carbon capture and storage technology to bring emissions to net-zero.

LNG has no place in our just transition to a sustainable and equitable future. We want to see public spending directed towards projects and social infrastructure that will move us towards that brighter future immediately, not later.

Christy Clark, LNG, NAFTA and Market Fundamentalism

Christy Clark, LNG, NAFTA and Market Fundamentalism

    Christy Clark’s fracking and liquified natural gas (LNG) dreams are being faced with a strong dose of reality ...
Barlow says no to Pacific NorthWest LNG project as Trudeau faces crucial late September decision

Barlow says no to Pacific NorthWest LNG project as Trudeau faces crucial late September decision

Photo: Council of Canadians organizer Brigette DePape at the Lax U'u'la Camp where land defenders are in place to protect ...
Trudeau to discuss TPP & LNG in Japan

Trudeau to discuss TPP & LNG in Japan

Trudeau and Abe at their first meeting at the time of the APEC summit in Manila, November 2015. Photo by ...
Terrace chapter opposes LNG developments in northern British Columbia

Terrace chapter opposes LNG developments in northern British Columbia

The Council of Canadians Terrace chapter. The Council of Canadians Terrace chapter opposes Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) developments in northern ...
World Gas Intelligence ranks the top 5 LNG projects most likely to proceed in Canada

World Gas Intelligence ranks the top 5 LNG projects most likely to proceed in Canada

The Council of Canadians at a protest against the Woodfibre LNG terminal. The trade publication World Gas Intelligence has ...
Trudeau government approves Woodfibre LNG export terminal

Trudeau government approves Woodfibre LNG export terminal

The Council of Canadians was at this protest against Woodfibre LNG last year. The Trudeau government has approved the ...
McKenna delays decision on Pacific NorthWest LNG project

McKenna delays decision on Pacific NorthWest LNG project

Photo: Lax U'u'la (Lelu Island) Federal environment minister Catherine McKenna was to decide whether or not to grant approval ...
10,000 comments submitted on Pacific NorthWest LNG project, federal decision could come on March 22

10,000 comments submitted on Pacific NorthWest LNG project, federal decision could come on March 22

When Petronas threatened to walk away from the Pacific NorthWest LNG project this week, the Council of Canadians ...