Northwest Territories considers LNG for Asia

摘要

Vancouver—Canada’s Northwest Territories is moving closer to unlocking its oil and natural gas resources, with LNG exports to Asia one new alternative, territorial Premier Bob McLeod said. To that end, the decades-long dream of accelerating commercial production of stranded Arctic hydrocarbon resources could be within reach now that the Northwest Territories and Canadian governments have set an April 2014 deadline for transfer of control over resource development from Ottawa and giving the Northwest Territories the right to approve projects, he said in a phone interview August 23.