r/climateskeptics • u/Illustrious_Pepper46 • 1d ago

B.C. weakens net-zero emissions policy for new LNG terminals (Green Hypocrisy)

https://www.biv.com/news/bc-weakens-net-zero-emissions-policy-for-new-lng-terminals-10475477

The Green Hypocrisy. British Columbia Canada, is loosening its 2030 Net Zero requirements on LNG export terminals, that will ship millions/billions of tones of Carbon producing Natural Gas to Asia. They go onto explain, powering the LNG facilty with natural gas would produce carbon emissions (lolz). Hopefully Asia's CO2 will stay over there, not come to Canada.

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.

Dix went on to explain that means having an LNG terminal ready to be powered by grid electricity — unless not possible because there’s an inability to provide enough electricity.

Powering the Ksi Lisims LNG project with gas alone instead of electricity would produce another 1.8 million tonnes of emissions per year, said Hulse. That's equivalent to the carbon produced by more than 551,000 passenger vehicles in a year, according to Natural Resources Canada.

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u/Uncle00Buck 1d ago

We will see all kinds of "loosening" as competitive reality hits the guys who want to get reelected.

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u/Illustrious_Pepper46 1d ago

Talk is also cheap when getting elected. Let's see (and pray)

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u/No-Courage-7351 1d ago

I would love to see how the numbers were calculated. To liquify natural gas by refrigerating takes an enormous amount of electricity however a pair of gas turbines would do it. The gas is already available. Burning natural gas creates very little emissions compared to petrol cars. Someone is being creative