Canada is ramping up plans to export huge volumes of future liquefied natural gas production into Europe — despite forecasts of falling market demand for gas in the EU and questions around the carbon footprint of shipping LNG internationally, the country’s federal energy and natural resources minister said Wednesday.

Tim Hodgson, speaking on a trade mission to Germany, said in response to questions from Canada’s National Observer that with Canada’s first LNG export terminal now shipping out cargoes from BC to Asia, Canadian LNG would soon be positioned to supply the “lowest-risk and lowest-carbon [gas] in the world” to European buyers.

“Before you build a project, you talk to your customers, and what we have heard loud and clear from German LNG buyers and users and from the

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