The federal Liberal cabinet has approved construction of an $11.4-billion terminal to export liquefied natural gas from northern British Columbia, subject to the project’s owners meeting an array of conditions designed to reduce the proposal’s environmental footprint.Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, who made the announcement late Tuesday in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond, outlined 190 conditions that Pacific NorthWest LNG must meet before building an export terminal on B.C.’s northern coast, including a cap on greenhouse gas emissions that would cut them nearly 20 per cent below what was first proposed.
Environmentalists have argued the project, and …
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