The energy critic for the provincial Progressive Conservatives says the party isn’t surprised about Repsol’s decision to put the Canaport LNG export terminal project on hold indefinitely.
Southwest Miramichi-Bay du Vin MLA Jake Stewart says the Gallant government has lost every energy and mines project that was moving forward just two years ago.
“They failed so badly that multi-billion dollar projects are crashing all around them because of their very policies,” Stewart tells us. “Most of them overhanded carte-blanche policies where they are giving authority-making to ministers and giving lease extensions on shale gas. There’s no end to the damage the Liberal provincial government has done to New Brunswick’s future.”
Stewart calls the Repsol decision the latest in a long list of projects they felt as though they had on the table and Gallant Government has lost.
Provincial Energy and Mines Minister Donald Arseneault e-mailed us in response to our story on the Canaport decision and you can read what he has to say about that here.
Repsol owns Canaport LNG, an import facility, along with Irving Oil. In September of last year it had been announced that Repsol received approval from the National Energy Board for Canaport LNG to export liquified natural gas.
