Canada approves natural-gas project
Canada approves natural-gas project
TORONTO
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has approved a $27 billion liquefied natural gas project on British Columbia’s northwest coast in a decision that’s considered a litmus test for a government that has vowed to do more for the environment.
Three cabinet ministers made the announcement late Tuesday. It’s Trudeau’s first decision on a major energy project. It comes ahead of some of important pipeline decisions that will cause him problems from either industry or environmentalists and aboriginals.
The proposed liquefied natural gas processing plant by Petronas near Prince Rupert, British Columbia, would ship 19 million tons a year of frozen, liquefied gas to markets in Asia.
Trudeau still faces decisions on Enbridge’s controversial Northern Gateway pipeline proposal that would bring oil to the Pacific Coast for shipment to Asia as well as Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain pipeline.
Man who returned 9/11 flag identified
EVERETT, Wash.
The man who turned in an American flag raised at ground zero on Sept. 11 to a Washington state courthouse has been identified.
The Daily Herald reports Brian Browne had seen the coverage of the flag’s return to New York this month and contacted authorities. In 2014 he had turned the flag, which disappeared from ground zero, into a fire station in Everett. The flag is now at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
Browne, a flag collector, spoke with Everett detectives this month. Browne said he got the flag in 2006 from a friend he believed got it from the wife of a former New York City employee.
Justice Department official to leave
WASHINGTON
The Justice Department’s top national security official is leaving his position next month, the department announced Tuesday.
John Carlin, who has led the department’s national security division since 2014, will be leaving government Oct. 15.
The department did not reveal what Carlin, 43, plans to do next, but it said he would take some time off and spend time with his family.
“John Carlin has been a trusted and tireless leader of the Justice Department’s National Security Division,” Attorney General LorettaLynch said in a statement. “He is wholly devoted to the department’s most important mission – protecting our country against acts of terrorism and other national security threats – and he has set a high standard by relentlessly pursuing those who seek to harm our people and threaten our assets.”
Carlin’s exit leaves the Obama administration without one of its most vocal advocates for publicly identifying and blaming foreign government hackers for cyberattacks on American institutions.
Associated Press