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July 11, 2025

Will LNG Canada Transform Global Fuels Markets?

The LNG Canada facility in British Columbia opened last month, becoming Canada’s first operational liquefied natural gas terminal. // File Photo: scottshoots via Adobe Stock.

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Anil Hira, professor of political science at Simon Fraser University: “LNG Canada, a project more than a decade in the making, exported its first liquefied natural gas from Prince Rupert at the end of June. The project is a consortium of Shell, Petronas (Malaysia), PetroChina, Mitsubishi South Korea’s Kogas; it is designed to feed Asian markets. This comes at a time of shifting policy in Canada towards public support of oil and gas, in light of the U.S. trade war unleashed by President Trump. Newly elected Prime Minister Carney pledged to develop east-west energy corridors in order to diversify the Canadian economy from its long-standing dependence on the United States. Indeed, 96 percent of Canadian oil exports go to the United States. Canada has long been a ‘staples economy’: one dominated by the export…”

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