Canada and Global Energy Security: The Role of Natural Gas in a Lower Carbon Future

[OTTAWA] — [April 3, 2023] — The Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Future of Business Centre (FBC) Fellow Eric Miller, President of the Rideau Potomac Strategy Group, has completed his first report for The Centre, addressing the role and opportunity for Canadian Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) to displace higher emitting fuel sources around the world.

The report, which has significant policy implications for Canada’s energy sector and our role as a global leader, covers topics ranging from current global energy dynamics and consumption patterns to Canada’s natural gas endowments, while making policy recommendations for how Canadian LNG can play a more important role globally.

Significantly, Mr. Miller rejects the notion that Canadian LNG production should be shut down in the name of the environment: “If Canada ‘leaves its resources in the ground’ other countries will not produce or consume less energy. Canada will in fact be worsening global emissions by making way for dirtier sources and suppliers.”

You can read the full report here.

About the Future of Business Centre

The goal of the Canadian Chamber Future of Business Centre is to promote discussion of important public policy issues. External Fellows, with the added insights of Advisory Councils and members, are at the core of the Centre’s work. Fellows’ reports are produced independently from the Canadian Chamber’s consensus-based policy committee process, and the views expressed in the reports are those of the Fellows themselves.

About the Canadian Chamber of Commerce — The Future of Business Success

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is Canada’s largest and most activated business network — representing over 400 chambers of commerce and boards of trade and more than 200,000 business of all sizes, from all sectors of the economy and from every part of the country — to create the conditions for our collective success. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is the undisputed champion and catalyst for the future of business success. From working with government on economy-friendly policy to providing services that inform commerce and enable trade, we give each of our members more of what they need to succeed: insight into markets, competitors and trends, influence over the decisions and policies that drive business success and impact on business and economic performance. 

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Karl Oczkowski
Senior Director, Corporate Communications & Public Relations
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
613.238.4000 (2231)
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