It was a \u0027monumental mistake\u0027 to refuse the project a year ago and it is even more the case today with the geopolitical context, says Quebec Conservative…
Speaking in La Baie, Saguenay, on Wednesday, Quebec Conservative leader Éric Duhaime lambasted Legault for having quashed GNL Quebec’s Énergie Saguenay project and thus potentially having forfeited billions of dollars in revenue with European countries trying to find alternatives to Russia’s fossil fuel.Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
GNL Quebec promised to build a 780-kilometre natural gas pipeline from northern Ontario to the region north of Quebec City, and then build a transformation plant to liquefy it before loading it onto ships at the city’s port. The project was estimated to cost $14 billion when it was launched four years ago.
Legault said that Quebec was open to exporting green hydrogen, but natural gas is out of the question – a message that he said he shared with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz when he met with him in August.Article content Lévesque, like other players in the energy industry, have been growing increasingly frustrated by the Quebec government’s refusal to exploit the province’s reserves of natural gas which are concentrated in the southern part of the St. Lawrence Valley.Article content
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