Jason Klein, the CEO of the consortium building Canada’s first liquified natural gas (LNG) export project in British Columbia, said in an interview with Reuters that the second phase of the facility will initially use natural gas turbines. The decision is a departure from other potential options that included electrifying the facility in order to keep emissions low. (Reuters)

Talking point: LNG Canada, which is 40 per cent owned by international gas giant Shell, is currently building the first phase of the project, which will export supercooled gas to Asian markets like Japan once complete. The consortium is currently mulling a phase-two expansion amid high LNG demand, but that expansion would have to initially lean on natural gas power because “the transmission infrastructure just isn’t there” to use emissions-free power like hydro, Klein said. Japan’s Mitsubishi, Malaysia’s Petronas and China’s PetroChina are also stakeholders in the LNG Canada consortium.