Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government is set to announce investments in Canadian ports that could be used to ship Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) to other countries, including investments in Manitoba’s Port of Churchill.
“Our government is in the process of unleashing half a trillion dollars of investment in energy infrastructure, port infrastructure … the first of which we will be formally announcing in the next two weeks,” Carney told reporters while visiting Germany on Aug. 26.
The prime minister said there are near-term opportunities relating to exporting critical minerals and metals to European countries, as well as “medium-term opportunities” to export energy products like LNG and hydrogen. Carney said Ottawa will be “reinforcing and building on” a new port in the northern Manitoba town of Churchill, which would “open up enormous LNG, plus other opportunities, and other East Coast ports for those critical metals and minerals.”…