Alfred Sorensen, president of Pieridae Energy Canada, fields questions about his proposal to liquefy natural gas on Nova Scotia's east coast and ship it overseas to markets in Europe and India, at a news conference in Halifax, on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Pieridae Energy Ltd. says the engineering company it hired to build its proposed Goldboro LNG Facility in Nova Scotia is withdrawing from an agreement to provide a fixed price contract for the job. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan