What’s next for Pacific NorthWest LNG project?

Two UBC professors weighed in on the recently approved liquefied natural-gas mega-project in B.C.

CBC quoted George Hoberg, a professor of environmental and natural resource policy at UBC’s Institute for Global Issues.

“The Liberal government keeps making decisions that are adding new pulses of GHGs to Canada’s emissions,” he said. “It makes it harder to meet our 2030 climate targets.”

The story also appeared in Yahoo Finance.

MSN Canada published a Vancouver Sun story that also quoted Hoberg. The approval is “a major step backward for the Trudeau government’s commitment to meet its Paris climate target,” Hoberg said.

Kathryn Harrison, a professor of political science at UBC, spoke to CBC’s Early Edition (at 02:11:15) about the project.

“The Trudeau government has been presenting inconsistent messages for a long time,” she said. “This approval was quite telling that they’re going to lean on the side of more nice rhetoric but business as usual in other respects.”