Canada commits public money to LNG infrastructure as Asian demand turns

Before more public money flows into LNG export terminals, LNG-fuelled vessels, or the bunkering infrastructure linking them, the committee, the federal institutions extending credit and guarantees, and the council itself should account for who, in the actual buying countries, will still be there to take the gas a decade from now.
Federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson, pictured Feb. 10, 2026.

When the first LNG tanker departed Kitimat, B.C., for Asia on June 30, 2025, it carried the assumption that has shaped a decade of Canadian public investment: that Asian buyers...

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