Mr. van Beurden said Tuesday that a consortium led by the Anglo-Dutch energy giant will decide before year-end whether to move forward with a $30 billion, liquefied-natural-gas export terminal in western Canada. “We postponed the decision previously when the project wasn’t ready in terms of economic fortunes,” he told The Wall Street Journal on the sidelines of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative’s meeting in New York. “But there are only so many times you can postpone and recycle and revisit. The moment of truth will come in the next few months.” The export terminal is intended to gather cheap natural gas extracted from remote parts of western Canada, chill it to liquid form known as LNG and load the fuel into special tankers to transport it to Asia where it fetches much higher prices. Shell holds the largest stake in the project alongside partners PetroChina , Mitsubishi Corp. […]