Over the last 16 months, opponents have warned that Goldboro could wipe out “hard-fought reductions” in the province’s carbon pollution and urged the German government to withdraw its US$4-billion loan guarantee for the project. “A publicly covered guarantee of the Federal Government for the promotion and import of fracked gas from North America to Europe must not be granted,” stated the letter, addressed to German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze and Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier. It describes the loan guarantee as “rather a gross financial mistake against the German and international climate goals.”

In British Columbia, meanwhile, Chevron Corporation unveiled plans to resurrect the delayed Woodside LNG project near Kitimat and power its entire operation with hydroelectricity, in a bid to align with the province’s new climate plan. The Globe and Mail says the project site is at Bish Cove, on Haisla Nation land.