2026 NEBC:
“In the summer of 2023, 25 lung biopsies were performed in [heavily frac’d] Dawson Creek, 23 of them came back positive for cancer.”
2016: In Montreal, PQ
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@unraveledlissa.bsky.social:
This all makes me sick. Elbows up my ass.
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
I think you wanted a comma after “up”.
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Baie-Comeau is on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. The Norwegian company Marinvest Energy AS is talking to the federal government about building the country’s third-largest LNG export facility there. Photo: Pernelle Voyage / Alamy
Could this secretive, foreign-owned LNG export project be Quebec’s first?
The federal government is talking to a Norwegian company about a large LNG export facility in Baie-Comeau, Que. Residents and advocates say they’re being left in the dark
By Sarah Cox
March 9, 2026, The Narwhal
As the war in the Middle East escalates and oil and gas prices surge, a secretive liquefied natural gas (LNG) project proposed for Quebec is steadily advancing.
The LNG project would ship liquefied gas from the deepwater port of Baie-Comeau, a small city on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, to global markets.
The project would require a new pipeline — through a small portion of northern Ontario and a swath of Quebec — to send mostly fracked gas from Western Canada to Baie-Comeau, in the province’s Côte-Nord region.
But you won’t find any information about this major resource project on the website of Marinvest Energy AS, the Norwegian company behind it.
Nor will you find any information about the Baie-Comeau LNG project on any federal government website, even though access to information documents reveal Prime Minister Mark Carney’s
Harper, rape Canadians for their rich criminal pals, CON Liberal government has established a multi-departmental “deal team” to facilitate the project.
“There’s been no public announcement, no project description and nothing has been made public,” Louis Couillard, Greenpeace Canada’s climate campaigner, told The Narwhal. “I’m just puzzled at how a project can move along like this without an official proposal.”
In an emailed statement, Marinvest Energy AS confirmed it is in discussions with First Nations as it develops the project and said it will not be giving an interview “at this stage.” In an emailed response to questions, the Quebec government said it never publicly discusses talks it may “have, or not have” with project promoters.
That leaves Montreal-based Couillard and others in the dark, except for information gleaned from access to information requests that are heavily redacted.
One thing they do reveal is Marinvest has a non-disclosure agreement with the government of Canada “such that this project is not to be discussed with officials outside the government.”
So, what else do we know about the Baie-Comeau LNG project?
And can it go ahead even though another Quebec LNG export proposal was soundly rejected by the provincial and federal governments only a few years ago? At issue then were risks posed to Indigenous communities, beluga whales and attempts to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
Read on.
First of all, what exactly is the Baie-Comeau LNG proposal?
Here’s what we know.
The project has four components: a gas pipeline, an undisclosed “renewable energy supply,” port infrastructure and gas liquefaction and storage.
That information comes from Invest in Canada, the federal agency that promotes direct investments by foreign companies. It is included in 137 pages of documents Greenpeace obtained through federal access to information legislation and shared with The Narwhal.
The pipeline and renewable energy supply “would be developed in partnership with First Nations,” according to the documents, which say the project is in the “pre-planning stage.”
The documents also say Marinvest “claims it is making progress on project development” and the company may reach out to Canada’s new Major Projects Office with a project description in early 2026.
In an emailed response to questions, a spokesperson for Canada’s Major Projects Office said the project has not “been referred” to the office and “nor has the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada received an initial project description, which would start the impact assessment process.”ya, sure, which I bet Carney will waive, anti environment, anti climate, rich serving Epstein Class shit that he is The spokesperson said to contact Marinvest Energy for details about the project.Alberta does that all the time, send concerned citizens back and forth to get nowhere.
How big is the Baie-Comeau LNG project?
In a word, big. Really big. “It’s a huge project in terms of the volume [of] exports that they want to do,” Couillard said.
Neither the company nor the Quebec or federal governments have released information about the volume of LNG the company plans to export. But a company representative earlier told Le Devoir the project would export about ten million tonnes of LNG per year.Fucking madness. That will require mass frac’ing, which means mass permanent water loss in a time of drying continents and horrific multi-year long droughts and vicious heat domes, releasing masses more methane into our already overly polluted atmosphere. The purpose of frac’ing is to force methane to release from tight formations, much of the released methane is not captured
That compares to about three million tonnes in annual exports from the Cedar LNG project in B.C., about two million tonnes annually from B.C.’s Woodfibre LNG project and about 12 million tonnes annually from the recently approved Ksi Lisims LNG export project, also in B.C.
It would make Baie-Comeau Canada’s third largest LNG export project, after Ksi Lisims and LNG Canada, the country’s first, in Kitimat, B.C.
The access to information documents lift the veil — a wee bit— on the federal government’s level of commitment to the project.
“Given the scale and significance of this energy infrastructure project, we’d like to establish a monthly coordination call to keep federal partners informed of the latest developments,” Anne-Sophie Proutiere, senior federal partnerships advisor for Invest in Canada, wrote to her colleagues last May, according to the documents.
“These ‘deal team’ calls will also serve as a forum for departments to provide guidance and support to facilitate the investment,” Proutiere wrote.
Proutiere’s email was sent to colleagues in a variety of departments, including Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada. The subject line was “monthly coordination call — Marinvest Energy project”.
Another email said the calls would “coordinate federal FDI [foreign direct investment] efforts to support this investment in Canada.”
What’s the big deal about secrecy?
The documents also reveal the non-disclosure agreement Marinvest has with Canada. Duff Conacher, cofounder of Democracy Watch, a non-profit organization promoting government accountability and corporate responsibility, warns against fast-tracking major resource project decisions like the Baie-Comeau LNG project and failing to consult with the public and stakeholders before final decisions are made.
Fast-tracking “usually leads to waste, and harm and corruption and boondoggles that actually don’t further the public interest,” Conacher said in an interview.There is nothing about frac’ing or LNG that is in the public interest. It’s all harmful, polluting and only serves the rich
“It’s just impossible for people sitting behind closed doors in Ottawa in the government to make good decisions about anything, because they need to connect to the reality of the impact of the decisions and action,” he said. “And the only way to do that is to consult with the public in a meaningful way before making the decision.”Carney is Mr. Secret though, like his boss Harper. They know the only way to make terrible projects like this one happen, is to do so with Gag Orders and Big Frequent Secrets. Douche fuckers
Conacher said fast-tracking decisions about major resource projects usually slows them down “because once the public learns about it, the pushback is greater than if people had been consulted in the first place.” That pushback can lead to court cases and other challenges, he pointed out. Carney et al need to get their arrogant lying elbows up pants sued hard.
Legal experts say a botched rollout could trash years of hard-won trust between Indigenous leadership and the Crown — and spark litigation
The Carney government has demonstrated a lack of commitment to transparency in many areas of government actions, he said.Harper Harper Harper!
Couillard said he’s worried people who would be impacted by the Baie-Comeau LNG project and the project’s pipeline won’t have the information “necessary to understand what’s being fast-tracked in their backyards.”
Phew, that’s a lot. So who’s behind the Baie-Comeau LNG project?
Greg Cano, who is connected to B.C.’s contentious Coastal GasLink pipeline, is the chief operating officer for Marinvest Energy Canada, a subsidiary of Marinvest Energy AS.
According to Cano’s LinkedIn profile, he’s a mechanical engineer who is an executive sponsor and former chief operations officer for Pacific Atlantic Pipeline Construction Ltd, a subsidiary of Italy’s Bonatti Group.
That name might sound familiar — the pipeline construction company was a primary contractor for the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which ships gas from northeast B.C. to the LNG Canada export terminal in Kitimat. Pacific Atlantic Pipeline Construction made the news in 2022 when Coastal GasLink terminated the company’s contract, alleging poor performance.Pffffft! Coastal Gaslink is the company with shit performance and law violations! Refer below!
You might be scratching your head by now, thinking Cano’s name also sounds vaguely familiar. Based in Calgary, he’s the former longtime director of project planning and execution for TransCanada, a major North America pipeline company now called TC Energy. TC Energy co-owns and operates the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
And gas for the Baie-Comeau LNG project would be shipped to the new pipeline through TC Energy’s network, according to Couillard.
If you live on Vancouver Island, there’s all the more reason to recognize Cano’s name. He was the former project lead for the Steelhead LNG, an export project proposed for Vancouver Island that was halted in 2019.
The Narwhal reached out to Cano by email but did not hear back.
Marinvest Energy AS declined an interview request. “In a spirit of respect and transparency, our priority is to continue discussions with First Nations communities in order to further develop the project’s concepts,” Justin Meloche, the company’s media relations director, said in an emailed statement.
“Additional information will be made public once the project has reached a more advanced stage and when concrete elements can be shared responsibly,” Aka when it’s too late for the outraged, soon to be poisoned, communities nearby and the public to do anythingMeloche added.
Marinvest Energy registered to lobby the federal government in May 2025.Why? Because they know Epstein Class Harper Carney would do everything in his power for them while doing nothing for the frac ‘n LNG harmed, preventing the public from knowing about the massive harms soon to occur and how many $billions in gifts to the rich LNG Fuckers?The company said it would engage with the Prime Minister’s Office, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Finance Canada, Natural Resources Canada and the Canada Infrastructure Bank.But not the public which pays for it all! Fuckers, absolutely rude crude fuckers
The stated goal was to determine “the applicable conditions for implementing a transformative and beneficial energy project for the future of the rich and only the rich, while severely poisoning and harming Quebecers and residents in the sacrifice zones of the frac fields of NEBC and or Alberta, and all Canadians stolen from by Carney and his lies and big money gifts to the polluters and Nazi Queen Danielle Smith, who’ll be demanding her own special expensive perks Quebec and Canada.”
Since then, five lobbyists from National Public Relations have filed reports saying they lobbied federal departments, agencies and the Prime Minister’s Office.I bet they are demanding, and Carney too eager to comply, $billions from us idiot Canadians and no safety or water or environmental protections for workers or the harmed living nearby in Quebec and in frac fields, and more deregulations for health-harming and water-destroying frac’ing and leaking pipelines!
The access to information documents note Marinvest is also in discussion with Alberta and Quebec representatives.why the fuck with Alberta? They want the dangerously polluting toxic climate and water destroying gas at lower or no royalties to get it cheaper?
“They’ve been lobbying [for] their project behind the closed door for over a year,” Couillard pointed out. “But for the public, there’s absolutely no info except what we find through .”
“We’re in the dark right now in regards to the regulatory stages that this project is in.” I bet we’re at the zero regulations stage – that’s what Carney’s horrific dirty betrayal MOU with Traitor wanna be America Danielle Smith provides frac’ers, pipeliners, and bitumen rapists.
Would the Baie-Comeau LNG project export fracked gas?
Yes. The vast majority — 80 to 90 per cent — of natural gas from Western Canada is extracted through hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking. The access to information documents state the gas for the project would come from Western Canada.The LNG fuckers need to calculate how many billions of gallons of water in severely drought stricken Alberta and NEBC will be permanently removed from the hydro geological cycle for this insane greedy ass project!
Steven Haig, a policy advisor for the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s energy program, pointed out fracking is a “particularly emissions-intensive method for producing natural gas.
Frac’ing in Alberta. Hold your breath and that of your kids, all day and night long!
We are told companies never frac in the night so as to not disturb us. Liars, all of them.
“And also, by nature of the process … there are significant risks of methane leaks, which add to the emissions associated with the production,” Haig said in an interview. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere, contributing to global warming and climate change. It can also cause respiratory and cardiovascular issues.
What about Indigenous communities near the LNG terminal and along the pipeline route?
Couillard isn’t convinced a majority of Indigenous communities will support the Baie-Comeau LNG project even after consultations.
“Quebec has a problem,” he said. “It’s all unceded. There’s no treaties here. So technically, all these communities need to give their free, prior and informed consent for the project to go ahead.” The Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador formally — and vocally — opposed TransCanada’s bid to build the Energy East bitumen pipeline, which was cancelled in 2017.
Tragically and disgustingly, Carney is Harper’s much more evil twin and appears to hate us and the environment more than Harper does. Carney’s using extreme Nazi racist Danielle Smith in Frac’d to Hell Alberta and his traitorous MOE with her, to kill UNDRIP. I expect Herr Carney will kill Indigenous rights across Canada, to rape and frac us all without protest or any legal interference. Smith is creating her own violent ICE with a private racist misogynistic pro polluter police force, to make sure frac’ers, mostly American, can freely frac and poison us, and permanently destroy water to their pleasure, without any concerned Canadians getting in the way.
The documents obtained by Greenpeace and other environmental groups list Indigenous communities and organizations that could be affected by the pipeline and LNG project, but all further information is redacted. Of course! Carney is a Harper Con, the most extreme right PM Canada has ever had. He will harm and kill many Canadians, to keep his rich pals happy.
In Ontario, those communities include Apitipi Anicinapek Nation, Métis Nation of Ontario (region three), Taykwa Tagamou Nation, Beaverhouse First Nation, Matachewan First Nation and potentially Mattagami First Nation and Temagami First Nation.
The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada recommended Marinvest engage with about two dozen Indigenous communities and organizations in Quebec, according to the documents. They include many Cree, Algonquin, Atikamekw and Innu communities, such as Pessamit, an Innu community about 60 kilometres south of Baie-Comeau.
Along with other Innu communities, Pessamit opposed a different LNG export project proposed for the Saguenay region of Quebec on the grounds it would pose a threat to ancestral lands and impact fish and caribou. Pessamit representatives were unable to respond to a request for comment before publication.
So what about the rejected LNG project in Quebec?
The Quebec government nixed plans for a LNG plant in the Saguenay region in 2021, saying it risked “disadvantaging the energy transition.” The province’s environmental review agency found the project’s risks outweighed its benefits. It said the proponent, GNL Québec Inc., had failed to demonstrate the project would reduce greenhouse gas emissions or accelerate the transition to clean energy.
The Saguenay LNG project would have been about the same size as the Baie-Comeau LNG project, according to Le Devoir.
The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada also found the Saguenay LNG project was likely to harm the environment, leading Ottawa to reject the project in 2022. The agency determined the project would have negative effects on nearby Innu communities, harm the beluga whale population through increased shipping traffic and cause greenhouse gas emissions to rise.We do not have a sane PM in power, the MAGAts’ hate got rid of Trudeau. Carney has made it clear he gives no shits about safe anything for Canadians, just more safe big fat riches for big oil, his foreign rich pals and American CSAM and women undressing AI.
Why ship LNG from Quebec?
Quebec has a distinct advantage over LNG shipped to Europe from other places in North America: geography.
A typical shipping route between Baie-Comeau and the Dunkirk LNG terminal in northern France would take about eight days, according to the Montreal Economic Institute, a public policy think tank that receives 11 per cent of its annual budget from the oil and gas industry. (Names of individual funders are not disclosed.)
It would take about 14 days at the same speed for LNG from the Gulf of Mexico’s terminals to reach Dunkirk and more than 17 days from Doha, Qatar, another big LNG export terminal.
“Geography plays in Quebec’s favour,” Gabriel Giguère, a senior policy analyst with the society, said in a February news release. “A shorter distance means shorter delivery times, and therefore lower transportation costs, compared to dealing with its main competitors.”
Will there be an environmental assessment ?
Some form of environmental assessment is likely if the Baie-Comeau LNG project proceeds, but the process could be fast-tracked. I fully expect Herr Carney to over rule all sanity, and say no consultations required, no impact assessments, not even socio-economic or cumulative.
In December, the Quebec government introduced Bill 5, which aims to accelerate authorizations for projects deemed to be priorities and of national importance. Don’t forget Carney’s much nastier Bill C-5 which was passed super quickly after he conned Canadians into believing he’s a liberal, and shat on Indigenous because he’s a fucking racist old rich white guy.
The Quebec bill, which has not been passed by the National Assembly, follows the federal government’s Bill C-5, passed last June. The federal legislation aims to accelerate “nation-building” projects.
What about the Baie-Comeau LNG project’s economics?
The oil and gas industry is pushing for LNG expansion, pointing to Europe’s desire to replace Russian gas and Canada’s drive to diversify exports following tariffs U.S. President Donald Trump slapped on Canadian goods. That’s just the excuse. I bet Carney and Harper and Trump are in cahoots to force massive unwanted deadly LNG projects and tarsands expansions, even though they know how serious the climate crisis is. The benefit to the world with Trump being as ego-loaded and stupid as he is, and illegally bombing Iran and now stuck in a brutal war he can’t stop, and much of the world’s shipping, including helium (needed for hospitals) and oil tankers, being held up (but only for those supporting war criminals USA and Israel), many countries now realize it’s time to quit being blackmailed and controlled and killed by fossil fuel rich anti life anti climate anti earth fuckers. The shift to power the world without fossil fuels is going to shock the pants off LNG pimps and Carney.
“But it’s important to remember that these are multi-billion dollar, multi-decade projects and their long-term viability is a serious concern as global markets shift towards cleaner,less health harming and water destroying more reliable energy sources,” Haig, from the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said.
As importers shift towards cheaper, more reliable renewables, “An oversupply of LNG is imminent, with a massive wave of new projects coming online around the world, especially in the U.S. and Qatar,” Haig said.
He said the growing war in the Middle East won’t change that. “There’s a difference between short-term supply disruptions and long-term outlook in the market.”
Doubling down on LNG is likely to expose Canadians to “more risk and volatility, not less, by linking Canada’s domestic natural gas markets to more volatile international LNG market,” Haig said. Many countries are already investing in safe, clean energy, he pointed out.
“When it comes to backing renewables or fossil fuels, let’s pick the horse that’s already ahead.”
Refer also to:
2025: The world loses with Smith & Carney’s MOU; it’s not to build a pipeline, it’s massive deregulation for LNG, frac’ers and tarshitters to divide and conquer Canada for giving us to Nazi USA, and turn greedy stupid white racist humans more hateful against Indigenous, and will increase rapes of women and kids. The MOU is massive theft of the public purse for Carbon Capture (which greatly increases pollution and CO2 emissions). Carney betrays life and abuses Indigenous to serve Americans, polluters, the rich, Trump and his Nazi Regime, and is going to make taxpayers pay for industry’s requirement to consult with Indigenous! Shantell Powell: “Fuck that guy. What a colonizing dick.”
2023: Wise! Republic of Ireland Planning Board says no to unclean unnatural frac’d LNG
2021: Study: Increased cancer risk for oil patch workers and neighbours
2021: Frac’d to Hell NEBC, Kiskatinaw area: After fracs were stopped, quakes keep shaking
Guess who is now in control of AIMCo, Alberta’s public servants’ pension fund? Yup, Nazi Hideous Fiddle Fingers Redact Stephen J. Harper – one of those is repeatedly in the Epstein files as a client. Harper told some reporters it’s not him, and they believed him. I’ve never heard Harper tell the truth, so I don’t believe him. He’s the worst lying thieving creep, after Carney, Netanyahu and Trump, that I’ve ever seen in politics.
2020: Nasty Coastal GasLink! Nasty BC Supreme Court! Nasty RCMP! Update by Unist’ot’en Camp
2016: Environmental causes of childhood cancers ‘grossly underestimated.’ In Canada, toxic chemicals used by oil and gas industry are exempt under CEPA (1999)Of course they are, companies and govt’s don’t want us to be able to sue them when they intentionally poison, sicken and or kill us and our loved ones.
2015: “It looks like fracking has unearthed an unbargained for and serious cancer risk in peoples’ homes.” John Hopkins study links radon levels in Pennsylvania homes to fracking: “These findings worry us”
2012: Fracking cancer risk
Methylene chloride, a toxic solvent not reported in products used in drilling or hydraulic fracturing, was detected 73% of the time; several times in high concentrations.
A proportion (25% to 100%) of the water used in hydraulic fracturing is not recovered, and consequently this water is lost permanently to re-use, which differs from some other water uses in which water can be recovered and processed for re-use.
2011 Encana frac’ing water toxic in Colorado:
2011: Frac Company Trican Donates $5 Million to Fight Childhood CancerIn my view, this is the most clear indicator of how deadly frac’ing is! This nasty fucking frac’er illegally frac’d directly into my community’s drinking water aquifers for Encana/Ovintiv, enabled by every fucking authority in Alberta and ignored by the feds, even after I presented to them in 2007 on the many harms of frac’ing, and the many deadly chemicals in massive amounts used!
2006: My water frac’d deadly and toxic by Encana/Ovintiv:
2005: Enbridge research chair first of its kind dedicated to holistic cancer careYa, to make sure Canadians poisoned by oil and gas and bitumen and get cancer or die from it, get lots of abuse to try to silence them, a few gag orders here and there, and zero cancer care!