Members of a coalition of environmental groups have requested federal officials step in and complete an environmental assessment for a proposed Guysborough Co. LNG project.
The group is made up of the Ecology Action Centre, Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action Coalition, New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance, Sierra Club Canada Foundation, the Council of Canadians, Environnement Vert Plus, Citizens’ Oil and Gas Council, and Greenpeace Canada.
Tynette Deveaux, the communication coordinator for the Sierra Club’s Atlantic chapter, tells The Hawk Pieridae Energy reps’ proposed liquefied natural gas export facility in Goldboro is going ahead based on a provincial environmental assessment and approval from 2014.
“Obviously, a lot has changed,” she says. “Technology has changed; our understanding of climate change has changed.”
Deveaux says officials decided a federal environmental review wasn’t warranted because an assessment for a different project had been done on the site in 2007.
She says there should be a new one.
“It makes no sense not to do a new assessment based on the current plan for this project, not what was projected back in 2007,” she says. “(It should be) based on new science and information.”
Deveaux says they’ve given federal officials 90 days to respond.
