BC Premier hailed for supporting LNG – FNNGA

June 14, 2026

BC Premier David Eby is drawing high praise these days for what sounds like a near-biblical conversion to the cause of LNG development in BC.

But while it’s true that his BC New Democratic Party once derided BC’s LNG hopes as “a cloud of pixie dust,” David Eby himself was never publicly opposed in practice.

In his first speech as NDP leader in 2022 he did say: “We cannot continue to expand fossil-fuel infrastructure and hit our climate goals.”

But by last summer he was praising LNG Canada for “clean energy,” saying (after visiting the LNG Canada export facility) that its LNG would be 60-per-cent lower in carbon emissions than the average LNG plant around the world.

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