Canadian Press
WASHINGTON — Canada’s ambassador to the United States is urging American energy regulators to discourage natural gas projects that would require tankers to travel through Canadian waters.
Gary Doer has written a letter to John Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, expressing concerns with proposals to construct liquefied natural gas terminals in Maine.
In the letter dated Feb. 3 and obtained by The Canadian Press from a government source, Doer says if approved, those proposals would see tankers pass through Head Harbour Passage, which is within Canadian waters off the New Brunswick coast.
He says there would be navigational, environmental and public safety risks if the tankers were to go through that narrow passage.
The New Brunswick government has also voiced its opposition to the proposed $600-million Downeast LNG project.
