Woodfibre LNG in Squamish prepares to export to Asia

Woodfibre LNG in Squamish prepares to export to Asia

The LNG plant is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, though not everyone is convinced

Canada’s clean LNG pitch — and why not everyone is buying it

Amid the federal government's push for Canadian energy, one project near Squamish, B.C., is preparing to export liquified natural gas (LNG) to Asia.

Woodfibre LNG is planning to use electric drive compressors, rather than gas-powered ones, in its facility — and it promises to be net-zero by 2027.

Squamish Nation led an environmental assessment process, and the nation is a regulator on the project.

"Environment was first and foremost to us," said Ian Campbell, a hereditary chief of the Squamish Nation and negotiator of the agreement with Woodfibre LNG. "We wanted to make sure the revitalization of Howe Sound was paramount."

But as CBC News journalist Lyndsay Duncombe reports, some environmentalists still have concerns and argue the electrification argument amounts to "greenwashing."