Liberal resource leadership boils down to LN ‘Gee, I don’t know’

Liberal ministers playing to the fossil fuel industry’s contrived confusion seems less of a lack of consistency, and more of an outright dangerous misunderstanding.

In July, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, left, said he wants to export LNG because ‘it’s what the world needs,’ and two weeks later, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said ending LNG subsidies is ‘a common-sense bottom line.’ The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SVEN BIGGS

September 23, 2024

The Liberal Party leadership needs to get in a room together, invite some scientists and economists, and figure out where they stand on liquefied natural gas, or LNG, because at the moment it’s confusing for everyone.

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