Carney recommends 7 major projects for approval, including new mines, LNG and hydro development | CBC News

## Carney recommends 7 major projects for approval, including new mines, LNG and hydro development

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday seven more initiatives he’s recommending for fast-tracked approval by the government’s Major Projects Office — and it includes multibillion-dollar energy and natural resources proposals that Ottawa hopes will deliver a jolt to the tariff-hit economy.

Carney said this latest round of projects will help the country become more economically self-sufficient in the face of U.S. aggression and a powerhouse player in high-in-demand critical minerals.

These seven projects, combined with the five Carney for approval in September, are worth a combined $116 billion to the Canadian economy, according to government figures.

Carney said each of the projects getting the green light are “transformational” and will help Canada realize its “full potential as an energy superpower” while creating new economic and trade corridors to steer the country away from the U.S.

Here are the projects announced today:

* The Sisson Mine, for critical minerals, in New Brunswick.

* The Crawford Nickel project in Ontario.

* The Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia.

* An Iqaluit hydro project.

* The Nouveau Monde Graphite Phase 2 project in Quebec.

* The Northwest Critical Conservation Corridor in northwest B.C. and Yukon.

* The North Coast Transmission Line in northwest B.C.

### Looking into the projects

The transmission line in B.C. is designed to deliver low-cost, clean electricity and better telecommunications to communities along the West Coast. It also includes a possible B.C.-Yukon link, to connect that territory to the larger Canadian electricity grid.

Ksi Lisims LNG on Pearse Island, B.C., is an Indigenous-led $30-billion liquified natural gas (LNG) facility that will produce some 12 million tonnes of LNG per year to be shipped to clients mostly in Asia.

Canada Nickel’s Crawford Project in Timmins, Ont., is a new mine that will produce some 240,000 tonnes of ore per day, integral to making batteries and steel.

Nouveau Monde Graphite’s Matawinie Mine, in Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Que., is a $1.8-billion graphite mine that will provide important inputs for defence applications and battery supply chains.

Northcliff Resources’ Sisson Mine in Sisson Brook, N.B., will produce tungsten, a critical mineral essential for high-strength steel production, defence, and industrial applications.

The Iqaluit Nukkiksautiit Project will be Nunavut’s first 100 per cent Inuit-owned hydro energy project, meant to replace the territory’s reliance on 15 million litres of imported diesel each year, much of it from the U.S.

*More to come.*

hell yeah i always knew climate change was fake bring on the mines and gas production

but jokes aside i wish we werent doubling down on mining and O&G we really need to look to the future things like tech n AI the worlds gonna leave us in the dust 🙁