CBC: CBC: Last fall, Kinew claimed three pending Manitoba megaprojects could wean this province off federal equalization payments within 10 years.
Now he says only one of those projects is capable of transforming the provincial economy from one that requires an infusion of cash to one that could stand fully on its own within confederation.
…The Port of Churchill expansion would fit the bill, Kinew said, provided the province manages to figure out how to build a natural gas pipeline over hundreds of kilometres of muskeg, erect an LNG terminal on Hudson Bay and move liquefied gas through the bay’s often ice-choked waters within four years — and obtain all the regulatory approvals to do so in that time frame, not to mention find the cash to make it all happen…