Federal officials showed interest in proposed Quebec LNG project, documents show

Port Baie-Comeau in Quebec, where the Canadian subsidiary of Marinvest Energy proposed a new facility to export LNG globally, particularly to Europe.

Senior federal officials touted a proposed liquefied natural gas facility in Quebec as having the potential to export “substantial volumes” of LNG to Europe, documents show.

The revelation appears in a federal briefing note prepared in May after Marinvest Energy Canada, a subsidiary of a Norwegian energy company, requested a meeting with the top bureaucrat at the federal Natural Resources Department to discuss its plans.

Although a company representative said a lower-level public servant met with them instead of the department’s deputy minister, the meeting was part of a flurry of lobbying activity in recent months that targeted high-level