A growing number of groups are expressing their opposition to a proposal to develop a Liquid Natural Gas hub in the Jeanne D’Arc Basin that includes a pipeline running from the offshore to Grassy Point in Placentia Bay.

The proposal is now in the Environmental Assessment process with a final decision due by the end of this week.

The pipeline would be approximately 600 km long and run along the ocean floor according to the FFAW’s secretary treasurer Robert Keenan. He says the union has already written the minister expressing its opposition to the proposal.

The environmental risk the project represents is simply too great according to Keenan.

The chair of the Council of Canadians – Avalon Chapter, David Ellis, says the LNG project is a “bad idea” on an environmental level.

The International Energy Agency last year identified a lack of investment in renewable energy sources as an impediment to getting to Net Zero by 2050. Ellis says “if we’re putting investment into other projects, like the LNG project… that cuts down the amount of investment… for other projects (that) will actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”