{"id":388284,"date":"2025-09-01T01:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388284\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T01:59:27","slug":"lng-could-flow-from-canadian-arctic-port-to-europe-in-about-5-to-7-years-minister-estimates-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388284\/","title":{"rendered":"LNG could flow from Canadian Arctic port to Europe in about 5 to 7 years, minister estimates \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea was initially floated back in 2022 when Germany\u2019s then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz<\/a>\u00a0tried to persuade Canada\u2019s then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to find a way to ship LNG to Europe to help wean the continent off Russian oil. But the project ran aground on a lack of infrastructure, namely a pipeline to bring the LNG some 8,000 kilometers from west to east.<\/p>\n

Now, with U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs having hit both Germany and Canada hard, both countries are scrambling to deepen ties in areas such as defense, critical minerals and energy.<\/p>\n

Hodgson took the opportunity to throw shade across the border, stating that Canada is keen to find people who \u201cshare our views and share our values\u201d and to increase trade with them. \u201cIn a perfect world, we would maintain our relationships with the U.S. We would maintain openness, but we\u2019re going to do what\u2019s right for us, which is make sure we trade more with like-minded countries like Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has in past months repeatedly threatened his northern neighbor\u2019s sovereignty in a string of comments about\u00a0annexing Canada<\/a>\u00a0as America’s \u201c51st state.\u201d The two countries have also been at odds over trade, although Prime Minister Mark Carney recently changed course<\/a> by scrapping some retaliatory tariffs.<\/p>\n

Hodgson said he was surprised by the long-term demand for LNG \u2014 typically seen as climate-unfriendly and a \u201ctransition fuel\u201d \u2014 from German industry, but attributed this to increased demand, including from artificial intelligence. \u201cThey believe that there will be more LNG required and for longer as a transition fuel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Berlin also wants to shift its industry away from reliance on Russia and China<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The idea was initially floated back in 2022 when Germany\u2019s then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u00a0tried to persuade Canada\u2019s then-Prime Minister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[943,1395,2437,6215,473,32,1312,35,2000,299,5187,39,1824,806,6084,6855,12270,5443,2129,5436,2661,7337,15857,7697,48,332,479,1201,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-388284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-companies","11":"tag-cooperation","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-electricity","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-fuels","20":"tag-germany","21":"tag-industry","22":"tag-infrastructure","23":"tag-justin-trudeau","24":"tag-liquefied-natural-gas","25":"tag-lng","26":"tag-mark-carney","27":"tag-natural-gas","28":"tag-oil","29":"tag-olaf-scholz","30":"tag-pipelines","31":"tag-ports","32":"tag-rights","33":"tag-russia","34":"tag-tariffs","35":"tag-trade","36":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115126571388722683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}