Canada groups continue legal challenge against permit for Petronas’ scrapped LNG project – Reuters Canada

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Canadian environmental and aboriginal groups said they will push ahead with a lawsuit seeking to scrap an environmental permit granted to Malaysia’s Petronas for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in British Columbia, despite the oil and gas firm’s announcement last month that it was scrapping the project.

A representative for the groups filing suit against the Canadian government told Reuters they wanted the permit granted by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency overturned so that the C$36 billion ($28 billion) plan for an LNG export facility on Lelu Island in northwest British Columbia can’t be resurrected in the future by Petronas or any other operator.

Petronas declined to comment on the lawsuit.

The Malaysian state energy firm said last month that it was pulling out of the project, a consortium in which it has a 62 percent stake, due to weak gas prices. It had received the environmental permit after a three-year wait but with 190 conditions that aimed to limit the environmental impact of the project.

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