Are you sitting down? Quebec open to rekindled GNL Québec gas facility project amid U.S. tariff threats. Didn’t the premier just say no, again, to Energy East? As posted yesterday, Brad Wall noticed that.
I happen to know the CEO who leased a huge amount of acreage in Quebec for natural gas development many years ago. He figures they have enough gas to provide about a third of their own needs. But the Quebec government banned fracking, and that was the end of that. I think they still might be in court over it.
Jim Warren: Environmental policy makers around the world require greater adult supervision: Canada and Sri Lanka provide examples.
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Cut all transfer payments.
As long as Quebec gets 14 billion dollars in transfer payments, due to the province’s have not status, no energy project will be approved by that province.
Is anyone crazy and/or stupid enough to invest in Quebec?
the liberal party has been investing in Quebec for decades, currently about 14 billion a year in transfer payments
I take your point, and agree with it wholly, but please, don’t so cruelly abuse the word ‘investment’.
I wonder if this change of heart by Quebec about pipelines has to do with realization that the western financial support (on which they are so dependent) could come to an end? Jordan Petersons commentary in the preceding post, outlines a very potential possibility wrt Alberta (and hopefully Sask. with it) seceding from Canada and joining the US. Even it is just a simple secession and creation of an independent country, it would elevate the prosperity of the two provinces and a great expense to those left behind.
The beef Quebec has isn’t a pipeline
It’s a pipeline that bypasses Quebec.
You can have a pipeline
But only if it goes to Quebec and they get to sell the finished product out of the Port of Montreal.
Not sure if it’s possible to have a pipeline bypassing Quebec, unless it’s rooted through the U.S, and the whole point is to create a market with customers other than the U.S.
Churchill on Hudson Bay. I think it’s closer to Europe and we need arctic icebreakers anyway.
Win win
The Cracked Canoe wouldn’t be any different to deal with than the Poseurs in PQ.
I was just going to suggest the same thing. Quebec may be tapping into Alberta’s frustration with Quebec, and realize that they’re gravy train of transfer payments could evaporate if Alberta beats them to the punch and gets the hell out of this hell-hole country before they do.
Alternatively
Someone in a government office seeing through the cognitive dissonance that if it’s now urgent to get our resources to other markets it means there is a business case.
Now they are in a quandary because they have to tell their boss.
We’ve reached a point where the worst kept secret is about to become openly discussed in places where it previously would have garnered scorn and ridicule.
That western separation isn’t just a pipe dream but preferable
To be fair, our provincial leader said no unless… there was sufficient public support to revisit the project. A lot of people missed that last part that was political weasel speak but significant.
Just like in the west, the environmentalists do a lot of work to convince us in Québec of evil ressource development projects that will destroy the planet. However with Trump’s tariff’s poking people are starting to come around to thinking of how short sighted we have been to focus on just the USA as our only trading partner. Hopefully with the shutdown of USAID a lot of that money that was thrown around to protest projects like the pipelines and LNGs will suddenly find themselves with a lack of funding and facing a renewed need from people wanting to diversify our trade to avoid being in the same position we were in when Tariffs were thrown around.
This is an encouraging article imo. https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/environnement/2025-02-05/projet-gnl-quebec/le-gouvernement-caquiste-rappelle-son-prejuge-favorable.php
Key quote: “« Et ça passe par trois choses : exploiter notre gaz naturel au Québec, construire des oléoducs sur le territoire du Québec et relancer le projet GNL-Québec », a-t-il énoncé.” Translation: “To go forward it will need three things: exploiting our natural gas in Quebec, constructing piplines in Québec territory and a relaunch of the LNG Québec project”
Quebec has plenty of natural gas. The gas bills we got from Gaz Métropolitain — ‘Gaz-Met’ as we affectionately referred to it in Anglo-land — is proof that Quebec is a major supplier of the product.
There is absolutely no reason for Quebec to refuse a pipeline from Alberta. To do so would be hypocritical.
Get it done now!
Strike while the iron is hot.
But I’m concerned that the private capital has “learned its lesson” and will not risk the applications.
Therefore the first move has to be removing the legislative barriers. Both federal and provincial.
I heard that too. What I interpreted it as was: “We are still opposed to pipelines but would be open to receiving giant government grants to build something that provides us with the ability to shovel wheelbarrow loads of Alberta transfer payment money off the back of a truck to our friends.”
Grifters gonna grift.
If #OrangeMan is smart, and I think that is readily apparent now, he will wave his tariff stick at Quebec and Ottawa a few more times. All these cozy deals are destroying Canada, and the USA benefits greatly if this country functions properly.
Corruption costs money.