To the editor:
BC Hydro is discouraged from using its natural gas-powered Burrard Thermal generation plant, located in Port Moody, supposedly due to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
But apparently it is OK to burn huge amounts of natural gas to power liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants, then ship the LNG 7,000 kilometres across the Pacific Ocean, on CO2-emitting ships to Asia, where the LNG would be turned back into natural gas and burned, partly to generate electricity, in plants similar to Burrard Thermal.
I’m hoping someone can explain this to me.
Hugh Thomas
100 Mile House
