Canada signs landmark LNG energy deal with Germany

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Canada signs landmark LNG energy deal with Germany

27 May 2026

Nadine Yousif
Senior Canada reporter

Canada has announced a landmark energy agreement with Germany that will see the first-ever long-term shipments of liquified natural gas (LNG) from Canada to Europe in the coming years.

It comes as European nations search for new reliable energy sources and as Canada seeks to diversify trade away from the US.

The deal was announced on Wednesday in Vancouver by Canada's energy minister, Tim Hodgson, who called it "an exciting and important milestone".

It involves the shipping of one million tons per year of LNG from Ksi Lisims, a proposed project on British Columbia's coast, to Germany by its national energy utility company Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE).

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4pwxwvz1go

[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump wanted to get very rich and didn't care that he damaged US trading relationships.

The US will be poorer for it.
Trump will be much richer.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Read an article that Mexico and other countries are buying from Canada because

of trump's tariffs. And trump.

[applegrove]

3. They will switch out with LNG tankers going from the Gulf of Mexico

to Asia. They do that. Then the German tanker goes to Asia and the Gulf of Mexico one goes to Germany. Neither one has to go through the Panama Canal.