The B.C. government has weakened a policy that required new liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in the province to produce net-zero emissions by 2030.
In a letter — quietly published to a government website and dated March 21 — Energy and Climate Solutions Minister Adrian Dix backpedalled on commitments made by his predecessor to require LNG terminals to operate in a way that produces no net greenhouse gas emissions.
The new government policy now requires proponents of LNG facilities to provide a “credible plan” for the project to be “net-zero ready” by the end of the decade, wrote Dix to Alex MacLennan, chief executive assessment officer of the province’s Environmental Assessment Office.
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