Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney announced in Vancouver on Tuesday that LNG Canada is moving forward with the Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C.
“Today’s $33 billion investment in LNG Canada 2 will make LNG Canada the second-largest facility of its kind in the world. It will create thousands of new jobs,” Carney said.
“It will connect low-cost, low-carbon Canadian energy to global markets, providing the secure supply our partners in Asia and Europe need.”
The expansion comes as global energy markets have been in turmoil amid the war in the Middle East and the closures of the Strait of Hormuz over recent months, sending prices soaring.
Carney added that this is a “great” day for Canada.
“The scale of this investment shows it,” he said.
“The partnership proves it. The speed confirms it. Canada is working. Canada is building big again”
Carney said that this project represents Canada coming together on a bigger scale.
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“It’s above and beyond this project,” he added.
“It’s the way it’s come together. It’s the way it’s being built. It’s the teamwork that’s here that teaches a lesson for all Canadians.”
BC NDP leader David Eby called the announcement a “big deal.”
“I want to recognize a few people who are very key to getting us here today,” Eby added.
“But I also want to take a moment to reflect on what it means to have the partners that we have committing to Phase 2 of this project in British Columbia and in Canada.
“We have very high standards, unapologetically. Workers have to be treated right. Indigenous partners need to be at the table. We need to ensure that when we build a project like this, that it has world-leading environmental standards and there has to be a fair return to Canadians and to British Columbians.”
Eby said he visited Kitimat and spoke to those working in Phase 1 and they wanted to know when Phase 2 would become a reality.
“This project means 4,000 in just the Phase 2 project, 4,000 high-paid jobs,” he added.
“It doesn’t talk about all the ancillary jobs that come with that. It means $28 billion over the life of the project in revenue for governments to pay for the services that people depend on.”
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Former B.C. premier Christy Clark said she was thrilled by Tuesday’s announcement.
“I am so delighted,” she said.
“We started talking about LNG in 2011. Everybody made fun of us, and me in particular. And I think John Horgan and David Eby both said that I was like some kind of crazy dreamer just making stuff up. And I’m glad they both turned out to be so wrong.
“This is so good for workers and for our economy.”
Clark added that if B.C. had embraced LNG years ago, the province would not be in the position that Carney is now trying to fix.
“He says we don’t have diversified markets, we don’t have partners in Asia, we’re not selling enough of our natural resources,” she said.
“That was the whole point of LNG. Create jobs at home and diversify our market so that we’re no longer so dependent on the United States. If we’d been allowed to just, you know, by other levels of government, federal government in particular, but then subsequently the NDP governments of Horgan and Eby, we’d been allowed to go ahead, we would be way ahead of the game right now, much better protected from the aggressive moves from the American government against us on tariffs.”
BC Green Party Leader Emily Lowan was not excited, however, about the Phase 2 announcement.
“LNG Canada is an entirely foreign-owned project,” she said in a statement.
“It is owned by Shell, one of the most profitable companies in history, several foreign state-owned oil companies, and U.S. private equity. LNG Canada’s owners also own the fracking operations in the Peace (region) that feed the project.
“The profits from LNG development flow directly to shareholders and governments abroad, while the costs stay here. ”
Lowan referred to the announcement as a “nation-draining” project.
With a file from The Canadian Press.
USA and immigrants going to get all the profits.. stay tune Canadian Hybrids
Not unless we get 50% profits
Another fantasy by Carney just like his trade deal with Trump he promised by end of July 2025.
Carney gaslighting all stakeholders. Nothing will be done
Carney takes credit for something not even complete. We won’t allow it and would rather live in the forest
Until you get it past the Indians, it’ll be a pipeline dream
MORE F/ G B/S FROM CORRUPT CARNEY !!! MAJORITY OF PEOPLE BLINDED BY SATAN
Ben your mom does way more heavy lifting than Carney ever did.
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To Malcom’s point Japan signed a deal with USA for LNG after Carney and Trudeau turned them away in 2023.
Thank you Mr. Harper for getting this project started. It took 10 years for the Liberals to approve Phase 2. Carney came out for the photo-op though. The US has built 9 LNG terminals in the time it took Canada just to approve Phase 2 of this project. That’s approval not construction.
Before liberals jump up and down let’s look at the owners of LNG Canada
Shell
Petronas
Mitsubishi
Petro china
And
Korean gas
Even pipeline to plant is only owned 35% by Tc energy rest of American hedge funds!
Great jobs Carney!
@Ben. The heavy lifting for LNG Canada Phase 2
was completed way before Carney became PM.
Carney is so huge and feels so good up my tight rectum.
eby the hypocrite trying to take credit. He opposed LNG and would do what ever he could to halt it. Now that eby the hypocrite has destroyed BC he has to change his tune to try and dig BC out of the mess he’s created.
A lot of true Liberals want Carney gone because he is so pro-petroleum.
@ben, the conqueror always takes what they want, since beginning of time, every square inch of the planet, far into the future, and probably encompass a chunk of the universe at some point (possibly)
Ben,
Carney did jack except hold up this entire industry for years while he was advising Trudeau. He has always been anti resource sector, and pro carbon taxes.
When my ancestors came from Europe to steal the land of the indigenous, they gave the indigenous the absolute bottom of the barrel land and took the best land for themselves. My ancestors got rich, while the indigenous were left poor with poor farmland. Wish that people would be mindful of our history, or at the very least, read about it.
Carney’s team did most of the heavy lifting to get this approved. I thought the conservatives would be pleased with this announcenent. They aren’t. Maybe they are angry at the poll showing the Liberals at 50%. Poilievre’s nattering negativity has earned him a leadership approval rating in the basement.
So what exactly are the native ‘partners’ bringing to the table. It seems all they do is sponge off of the other businesses and Canada.
Used car salesman.
A 57 year record was broken in 2024 when over 106,000 Canadians officially emigrated and left our country. That was before tariffs, and thanks to the Lost Lberal Decade.
In 2025 over 120,000 left.
Carney blocked Canadian Oil and Gas from 2015 – 2024. He wrote and entire book called “Values” about the so called climate crises and green revolution. Now he does a complete 180 flip flop and will do total summersaults for the industry.
On your marks, get set, false start.
@annoying pp, you’re typical lib scumbag, every lib politician blows their load in your mouth day in, day out
The NDP opposed it for years.
@annoying pp, eat your mom’s, aunts, grandma, Grandpa, uncles, dad’s anus out you POS
Interesting how the Liberals are now embracing the Canadian Oil and Gas Industry after kicking the industry in the teeth for a decade and telling everyone that we needed to pay consumer carbon taxes and phase out fossil fuel use as there was a “climate emergency “. So now no more emergency?
More stolen ideas by Carney. PP requested LNG Production to be increased in 2023. Carney sneered at that time and said climate change was an existential threat to the world. Carney now flip flops on the subject.
@Z I can’t believe you licked your daddy’s nut sack with that mouth.
Are you PP’S personal trainer, sorry I mean fluffer, anyway I’m assuming that z stands for Zero in relation to your IQ, or dating status or purpose on earth.
Be gone little one
Carney doesn’t want to ship the LNG to the east coast for loading and then on to Europe as it will make his Quebec base angry. Instead he will sail it around the world instead.
Annoying pp, keep scking carnhole like it’s your last meal before lethal injection
Why do you have christy’s comments here???
Still plenty of big talk from Carney while Canadians are losing their jobs. We still haven’t had the provincial barriers taken down yet so good can travel freely across Canada. Everything he promises is in the future with no timeframe
A project neither Carney or Trudeau wanted back in 2023. Now LNG is fashionable for Carney to get behind. Both Trudeau and Carney stated there was no “business case” or market to export Canadian LNG.
Read his book “Values” to understand what his end game is.
A lot of Carney Derangment Syndrome from the cons in the global comments.
Please get help, you failed just like your party.
Another win for Liberal Canada. Suck it Cons
Announcements after announcements, after announcements…. but no follow through.
Enjoy your self inflicted klepto-socialist socio-economic cesspit, Elbows Up-a-teers.
Ben is a liar. He can never acknowledge that the LPC dragged their feet on our resource sector, and that they delayed our last election solely to save themselves. We had no one negotiating with Trump during that period, and to make it worse the LPC wanted to make him an enemy to use that fear to gain more votes
Carney advised Trudeau to turn away Germany and Japan from our LNG, even though those countries were desperate for it due to geopolitical concerns with Russia and Ukraine.
So what has changed now for Carney to do a 180? Why is no one calling him out for how anti-resource he was just 3 years ago?
Shiny trinkets aren’t going to do it.
Great more virtue signaling but in reality when was a federal Canadian government actually working towards lowering our cost of living? I don’t care if it is a Liberal or Conservative lead government I just want to hear some positive news that Canadians cost of living will be going down and not higher!
Great announcement and it will help Eby in his re-election bid but what will this do to help Canadians that are struggling to keep up to the costs of living?
Somehow the Canadian taxpayer will lose on this deal as that happens to any project that the Government is involved with! The debt will continue to get higher and higher with no balanced budget anytime soon.
Who are the investors, when will the work be completed, is this just more pie in the sky from Carney. Canadians need jobs now.
West Coast to supply Europe? How about a pipeline to the East coast to supply Europe or is there no business case for that?
They need to build a camp there and offer fly in fly out jobs. The cost of housing in Kitamat is sky high.
@John Swanson. Respectfully, the project did not have all the regulatory approvals before Carney became PM. It had some regulatory approvals but Carney expedited the vast majority of said approvals.
This project had regulatory approval before Carney was PM. For him to try to take credit is quite disingenuous to say the least. He had nothing to do with the final FID.
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@Ben
Hes going to ask us to sacrifice more for his personal gain.. again.
Its a wonder your even able to type this out with your head so far up carneys ass
We need some good news, and Carney is delivering it.