Health professionals’ organizations make call for health assessment of British Columbia’s LNG – Prince George Daily News
December 15, 2025
Hundreds of health professionals are sounding the alarm—for the third time in as many months—that Canada has never undertaken an independent health impact assessment of LNG infrastructure, as British Columbia and Canada forge ahead with plans to massively scale up the LNG industry.
The three interventions, starting with the most recent, are:
- Last week, the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE), the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), and groups on the frontlines of LNG development, including the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition, sent a formal request for intervention to one of LNG Canada’s major funders, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). It says the Japanese public financial institution and export credit agency has failed to uphold its own lending policies under international agreements relating to health, business and human rights commitments. It calls on the bank’s governor general to halt further public financing of LNG Canada and associated gas infrastructure until an independent, cumulative health impact assessment is completed.
