Fund will be used to finance construction of major projects of national interest

  • ValueSubtracted@startrek.website
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    6 hours ago

    These are the projects that have been officially acknowledged so far, per the CBC:

    The Sisson Mine, for critical minerals, in New Brunswick.

    The Crawford Nickel project in Ontario.

    The Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia.

    An Iqaluit hydro project.

    The Nouveau Monde Graphite Phase 2 project in Quebec.

    The Northwest Critical Conservation Corridor in northwest B.C. and Yukon., which could include critical minerals and clean power transmission developments in the area.

    The North Coast Transmission Line in northwest B.C.

    Certainly all industrial infrastructure, but not necessarily for fossil fuels.

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      The Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia.

      That one is, but there are also issues of geopolitics and strategic economics involved. I think the key rebuttal is whether it is “narrowly defined as fossil fuel infrastructure” which we can clearly see it is not, nor should it be. I don’t think it can realistically exclude fossil fuel infrastructure given how much of it underpins our economy and position in the world at this particular moment in history, but I will certainly be happy to see a lot these non-fossil-fuel infrastructure projects get built.