Friday 29 Mar 2024
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KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 23): Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the Government needed to look at the "whole range of opportunities and challenges" when evaluating Petroliam Nasional Bhd's (Petronas) Pacific NorthWest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project there.

Bloomberg, in a report today, quoted Trudeau as saying the Canadian Government emphasised on cleaner and renewable energy sources. Petronas' planned Pacific NorthWest LNG project is at Lelu Island, British Columbia.

Trudeau said: "We continue to be engaged with a robust process that we've put in place and look forward to having more to say at the end of the process."

"Canada (is) looking to cleaner and more renewable sources of energy. In terms of emissions, coal is worse than oil, which is worse than LNG. We certainly need to make sure we are looking at the whole range of opportunities and challenges," Trudeau told reporters during a Cabinet retreat in Sudbury.

He said this ahead of the Pacific NorthWest LNG project's decision deadline this October.

Earlier, Petronas said it needed to "conduct a total review" of its LNG project in Canada once it received the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency's final report on the project.

News reports, quoting Petronas' statement, reported that the Pacific NorthWest LNG project needed "coherent support" from stakeholders to succeed.

 

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