(Photo via LNG. Illustration of LNG production and export facilities at The Grassy Point.
Many local environmental groups are happy that the minister of the environment has decided that the Proposed Placentia Bay Liquid Natural Gas Project An Environmental Impact Statement must be completed. The groups are disappointed, however, that the project, which they call “poorly conceived,” was not rejected outright based on environmental grounds.
The Decarbonize NL and Bay St. George Climate Network jointly released a media statement in support of the Grassy Point project. It stated that the project should be rejected and should at minimum undergo a robust evaluation by an arms-length board.
National Programs Director with the Sierra Club of Canada, Gretchen Fitzgerald, says the project, if approved, will make Newfoundland and Labrador’s climate targets “completely unattainable.”
The proposal for a liquified natural gas hub in the Jeanne d’Arc Basin includes a 600 km pipeline that would run from the offshore to Grassy Point in Placentia Bay.
