Feds Never Considered Cumulative Climate Impacts Of Pacific Northwest LNG, Court Docs Reveal

Pacific Northwest LNG approval

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) never considered the cumulative greenhouse gas emissions of the Pacific NorthWest LNG export terminal, according to documents revealed in a federal court this week.

The documents were submitted to a federal court in Vancouver during a hearing to determine whether the information should be considered as part of a forthcoming judicial review of the federal government’s decision to approve the LNG project.  

SkeenaWild Conservation Trust filed for the judicial review of the project’s approval and received 17,000 pages of federal documents under disclosure — the release of information required by law during (Read more…) proceedings. SkeenaWild hired two experts to give expert testimony on those documents.