Montreal, September 14, 2026 — Even though the project has not yet been officially presented to the Quebec population, the federal government is already giving a prominent role to Marinvest Energy/Kino Aski, the developer of a massive liquefied natural gas project (LNG) on the East Coast of Canada (on the North Shore of Quebec, in Baie-Comeau), at the Canadian Investment Summit taking place today in Toronto. For environmental groups, this approach demonstrates once again the lack of transparency on the part of the company and the governments, which are working behind closed doors at the expense of access to information and the consent of the communities affected by major natural resource projects.

Environmental organizations are critical of the fact that the project is included among the 167 major projects listed in the Canadian Investment Summit Pitchbook (attached), which is intended to attract international institutional investors: “The project hasn’t even been submitted yet; the people of Quebec have virtually no access to official information about it, and the federal government has the nerve to pitch this massive pipeline project—which cuts across Quebec from one end to the other—to foreign investors: what a disgrace! If it weren’t for our investigative work and that of journalists, the public would still know nothing about this massive, polluting LNG project. The federal government isn’t even trying to hide it anymore: it wants to impose its fossil fuel projects on the people of Quebec and Indigenous communities at any cost!” said Louis Couillard, Climate & Energy campaigner for Greenpeace Canada.


“While the governments of Quebec and Canada keep repeating that there is no Marinvest project on the table, Ottawa and the developer are already seeking foreign investors. How can anyone seriously continue to claim that there is no project? The people of Quebec are being deliberately kept in the dark while the project moves forward behind the scenes. With all the federal deregulation and fast-track measures adopted over the past year, there is good reason to fear that by the time Quebecers are finally officially informed, it will already be too late to have a genuine public debate. This is the strategy of creating a fait accompli, and it is profoundly undemocratic. Yet, the people of Quebec have been unequivocal when it comes to major pipeline and fossil fuel projects: they have said no to Energy East and GNL Québec. They have the right to know what is being planned on Quebec soil before decisions are made, not after,” retorted Alice-Anne Simard, executive director of Nature Québec.

“What kind of future are we building for our children? We cannot continue to pretend that the destruction of our land and the pollution of our air will not have serious consequences for future generations. Our children deserve better than yet another fossil fuel LNG project, and that is why mothers on the front lines across Quebec are already rising up in large numbers to say no to Marinvest and yes to protecting the environment,” concluded Ashley Torres, mobilization coordinator for Mères au front.

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For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact:

Louis Couillard, responsable de la campagne climat-énergie, Greenpeace Canada

514-531-6740, [email protected] 

Lucie Bédet, coordonnatrice des communications, Nature Québec 

418-455-8996, [email protected]  

Ashley Torres, Mères au front (équipe nationale)

438-924-2038, [email protected]