{"id":10277,"date":"2024-04-01T12:26:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T12:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=10277"},"modified":"2024-04-01T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T12:26:48","slug":"canada-not-interested-in-investing-in-lng-facilities-energy-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/10277\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada &#8216;not interested&#8217; in investing in LNG facilities, energy minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0Canada is not interested in subsidizing future liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, including electrification of projects currently in the works, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said in a television interview on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Countries including Greece, Germany and Japan have expressed interest in purchasing Canada&#8217;s LNG while the United States has paused expansion of American LNG exports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government is opposed to using government money to fund inefficient fossil fuel subsidies&#8230; We are not interested in investing in LNG facilities,&#8221; Wilkinson said on CTV. &#8220;That&#8217;s the role of the private sector. They need to assess the business case and make the investments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The minister said meeting a 2030 target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions will require that LNG production rely on clean electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&#8217;s federal government have set targets to cut emissions of the gases by 2030 and requires new LNG proposals to also be net-zero emissions in the same time frame.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau has emphasized the economic difficulties for new projects of exporting LNG to Europe from Canada&#8217;s Atlantic coast and the need to decarbonize the global energy supply to fight climate change.<br \/>\nU.S. President Joe Biden&#8217;s decision to pause expansion of American LNG exports has raised pressure from environmental groups on British Columbia and Canada&#8217;s governments to do the same, although following suit may be politically difficult.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2024-04-01T12:26:48+00:00\"> 1 April 2024<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada is not interested in subsidizing future liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, including electrification of projects currently in the works, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said in a television interview on Sunday.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,20,46,36,19,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-10277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-gas","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10277"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=10277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}