Canada

Richard Brooks, climate finance director at Stand.earth, a climate advocacy body, said that with Ksi Lisims Canadians “are being asked to anchor their economic future to a global commodities casino.”

“This isn't a stable market: it’s a volatile swapping game where gas is traded on paper to exploit wild price swings and unpredictable demand. Betting public money on projects like Ksi Lisims means tying Canadian taxpayers to a deeply unstable, trader-driven scheme,” he told Canada’s National Observer.

Jesse Stoeppler, co-executive director of the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition, an environmentalist group working in the area Ksi Lisims is planned to be built, noted that the federal government was “acting as though Ksi Lisims LNG is already operational when the project has not reached [final investment decision], faces unresolved Indigenous rights concerns, and remains subject to ongoing legal proceedings.”

“Tim Hodgson is trying to create political momentum around a project that still lacks broad consent and carries substantial legal, economic and climate risk.”