Canada in talks with Europe about east coast energy exports -foreign minister (updated)
29/06/2022 17:00
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June 29 (Reuters) - Canada is in talks with its European
allies, including Spain and Germany, about exporting oil and gas
from its east coast to alleviate energy constraints and provide
an alternative to Europe's Russian energy imports, Foreign
Minister Melanie Joly said on Wednesday.
"It is important for Canada to be able to step up and to
help our European friends that are dealing with very difficult
energy realities," Joly told reporters.
"We need to do it in a way that we're also dealing with the
climate change issue. And this is exactly the conversations
we're having, particularly with the Germans and also with the
Spanish," she said.
Germany has been rushing to phase out Russian energy imports
after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine and is looking for
alternative supply routes and sources of energy.
Canada and Germany are in talks over options to export
liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe via a terminal on Canada's
east coast, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing a German
government official. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2YF1SY
Discussions between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took place at the summit
held by The Group of Seven economic powers leaders this week.
Canada, the world's sixth-largest natural gas producer, does
not currently have any east coast LNG facilities.
Canadian Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told
Reuters in May that Ottawa was looking at speeding up two
proposed east coast LNG export projects - Spanish company
Repsol's REP.MC LNG facility in New Brunswick and the Goldboro
LNG facility in Nova Scotia proposed by Pieridae Energy
PEA.TO . urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N2WY1YV
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil and Steve Scherer in Ottawa;
Editing by Hugh Lawson and Alistair Bell)
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