There are plenty of choices today at the Canadian energy buffet, and while much of the public appetite focuses on building oil pipelines west or south, developing new LNG export facilities is also squarely on the table.

With regulatory reforms progressing on building major projects, a new federal-provincial accord in place and ongoing efforts to turn the country into an energy superpower, Canadian business executives say it’s time to seize the moment and build on the momentum.

It’s also a chance for Canada to catch up on further developing an industry to export more liquefied natural gas to an energy-hungry world.

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“We have a lot of advantages, but we also have a window of opportunity. If we don’t capture this in the next three to five years, others will fill that gap,” Pembina Pipeline Corp. CEO Scott Burrows told an energy conference in Calgary on Thursday.

“If you look at the number of proposed LNG projects across the world, whether it’s in the Middle East or in the U.S., the time is now. And if we don’t act, we are going to lose this generational opportunity.”

Calgary-based Pembina is a partner with the Haisla Nation on the Cedar LNG project being built on the Pacific Coast.

Burrows was one of several industry CEOs who spoke at the annual Energy Roundtable conference, where much of the conversation focused on the recent shift in federal policy — and a change in attitude —........

© Calgary Herald