Premier John Horgan has put in a formal request to the Canadian government to ask the United States to access secure gas reserves.
In a one-on-one interview with Global News, Horgan said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and federal officials will be asking the Biden administration for help to procuring gas. “I have made appeals to the prime minister, who is meeting with President Biden,” he said. “If there are resources in the United States that could be freed up in the short-term, that would assist us.” The request comes after a week of catastrophic rainfall in the province that has shutdown highways, wreaked havoc on supply chains, and displaced thousands of people.