The fracking companies supporting Ksi Lisims LNG are floating a new plan. If Asian countries don’t want to buy expensive fuel from the Texas-owned terminal, they’ll sell it to Germany.

Germany is 18,000km away from B.C.’s North Coast, via the Panama Canal. If LNG tankers can’t get through the canal (for example, because of low water levels caused by drought) they would have to take an even longer route.

Shipping fuel all the way from B.C. would make European electricity even more expensive. And the long journey would be worse for the climate than burning coal, because LNG tankers “boil off” methane into the atmosphere every day they spend at sea.

Germany says it no longer wants to be at the mercy of the U.S. for its fuel supply. So they’ll buy LNG from an American-owned terminal, and ship it through a canal the American president keeps threatening to seize?

It’s an idea so stupid, there’s only one way to make it work: with billions and billions of taxpayer dollars. And Canada’s energy minister, Tim Hodgson, believes he’s the guy to make it happen.

All week, Indigenous leaders have been meeting with politicians and bureaucrats while Canadians hold rallies and phone their MPs, demanding the federal government halt subsidies for American LNG. (Check the Take Action section below to join in on the phoning.)

A few MPs are starting to grasp the facts around Western LNG’s ridiculous project. And they are waking up to the political risks of bankrolling this with public money, while Canadians struggle to buy groceries.

But the oil and gas industry refuses to take no for an answer. So it’s up to us to keep the pressure up.