加拿大政府向一座位于西海岸的液化天然气项目注资2亿加元（约合1.4亿美元），该项目由印度尼西亚首富支持。总理马克·卡尼正推动出口多元化，减少对美国市场的依赖。
Canada’s government injected C$200 million ($140 million) into a west coast liquefied natural gas project backed by Indonesia’s richest person, as Prime Minister Mark Carney pushes to diversify exports away from the US.
该设施名为Woodfibre LNG，位于不列颠哥伦比亚省斯夸米什，紧邻温哥华以北。项目已完成约75%，计划明年投产。加拿大能源部长蒂姆·霍奇森周五在温哥华宣布了这笔资金。
The facility, Woodfibre LNG, is based in Squamish, British Columbia, just north of Vancouver. It’s about 75% complete and scheduled to start operations next year. Canadian Energy Minister Tim Hodgson announced the funding in Vancouver on Friday.
Woodfibre LNG由Pacific Energy Corp.持股70%，后者是总部位于新加坡的非上市大型企业集团RGE Pte Ltd.旗下子公司，该集团还经营林业和棕榈油种植园。据其官网介绍，RGE资产超过400亿美元，员工8万人。创始人兼主席苏卡托·塔诺托身价215亿美元，据彭博亿万富翁指数排名。
Woodfibre LNG is 70% owned by Pacific Energy Corp., a unit of closely-held, Singapore-headquartered conglomerate RGE Pte Ltd., which also operates forestry and palm oil plantations. It has assets of more than $40 billion and 80,000 employees, according to its website. Founder and Chairman Sukanto Tanoto is worth $21.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Woodfibre其余股份由总部位于卡尔加里的石油天然气管道公司Enbridge Inc.持有。
The rest of Woodfibre is owned by Calgary-based oil and gas pipeline company Enbridge Inc.
政府宣称Woodfibre排放效率高——依靠水电供电——且其环境评估过程由当地原住民斯夸米什族主导。
The government touted Woodfibre’s emissions efficiency — it’s powered by hydroelectricity — and how its environmental assessment process was led by local Indigenous people, the Squamish Nation.
该设施设计年产能为210万公吨液化天然气，投资方正在探索扩建，将产能提升至至少250万公吨。
The facility is designed to produce 2.1 million metric tons of LNG per year, and its backers are exploring an expansion to increase its capacity to at least 2.5 million tons.
尽管项目时间表多次推迟，Woodfibre LNG仍是一系列不列颠哥伦比亚省项目中的早期项目之一，这些项目现正利用加拿大西部丰富的天然气储量，经太平洋输往亚洲买家。
Though its timeline has slipped over the years, Woodfibre LNG was one of the earliest in a series of BC projects now tapping western Canada’s large gas reserves to ship over the Pacific to Asian buyers.
9月，LNG Canada项目背后的公司决定将该国最大出口设施的产能翻倍至2800万公吨——这是一项耗资230亿美元的扩建计划。
In September, the companies behind LNG Canada, the country’s largest export facility, decided to double the capacity of that facility to 28 million metric tons — a $23 billion expansion.
上个月，不列颠哥伦比亚省选出保守党省政府，承诺到2032年将该地区天然气产量翻倍。
Last month, BC elected a Conservative provincial government which promised to double the region’s natural gas production by 2032.
联邦政府对Woodfibre的投资招致一些批评，指责将纳税人资金投入该项目。
The federal investment in Woodfibre attracted some criticism for putting taxpayer money into the project.
“这不属于政府的职责范围，”麦克唐纳-劳里埃研究所能源、自然资源与环境主任希瑟·埃克斯纳-皮罗在X平台发帖称，该发帖基于路透社早前的一份报道。“它挤占了私营部门投资，扭曲了自由市场。”
“This is not government’s lane,” said Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute think tank, in a post on X, based on an earlier report by Reuters. “It crowds out private sector investment and distorts the free market.”