“When I looked at the first five projects, I thought: ‘Finally — they get it,’ because it’s all the projects that have been difficult to build,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters in Edmonton. Topping the list is the second phase of LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., where natural gas piped from Alberta and Northeast B.C. However, environmental groups dispute the green claims, pointing to emissions from producing the natural gas itself and methane leaks from wells and pipelines. He said the move should make it easier for the partners in LNG Canada — Shell and four Asian companies — to give the green light to Phase 2. The initial major projects list also includes the Darlington nuclear project in Bowmanville, Ont.