Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; So long as everybody continues to agree Justin Trudeau is a green leader, Canada has strongly hinted they will be upscaling capacity to provide an alternative to Russia.
Trudeau pledges support for European nations to move away from Russian energy
‘We will be there to support, as the world moves beyond Russian oil and indeed, beyond fossil fuels, to have more renewables in our mix’
Author of the article: Ryan Tumilty
Publishing date:Mar 07, 2022OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the leaders of the U.K. and the Netherlands agreed Russia is no longer a reliable supplier of oil and gas, but Europe can’t yet shut off the taps and Trudeau was vague about how much Canada can deliver as a replacement.
Trudeau met with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in London Monday, as he begins a week-long trip to meet with European leaders. Canada, which imports a negligible amount of Russian oil and gas, banned imports last week.
Rutte said in the short term a ban simply isn’t possible for his country or many in Europe.
“We have to ensure that they don’t generate unmanageable risks to energy supplies in Europe, European countries and beyond, including Ukraine,” he said, speaking at a joint press conference with the three leaders in London. “The painful reality is that we are still very much dependent on Russian gas and Russian oil.”
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Read more: https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-pledges-support-for-european-nations-looking-to-move-away-from-russian-energy
Now we know what Trudeau plans to do with all that tar sands oil – export it to his eco-warrior friends in Europe.
In my opinion Trudeau’s commitment to green principles is a bit like his commitment to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. As Trudeau once helpfully explained, “No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave them there”.
I hope none of this triggers any of you to question Trudeau’s green credentials. After all, Canadian tar sands oil is not evil fossil fuel, it is well intentioned fossil fuel, a temporary transition measure until the windmills are ready.
These people are insane. That’s it, they’re insane.
This ^
Or just drunk with power.
You are too kind.
It is the oppulence of the political 1% ; They are the people they tell us they detest – ironically, those who don’t pay their “fair share”. They have never experienced any semblance of the life most of us must endure. They have never worried about gas in the tank, food, utilities, clothing, the basics we agonize over providing for our families. It is approaching a time where someone might consider establishing a guillotine sales and rental franchise.
I am sorry, but Biden’s new policy is to buy fuel only from evil dictators. Oh, wait….
OMG has he adopted a Greta look alike child?
That is Greta. The original was kidnapped and is being held on a sailboat somewhere.
I heard they were anchored off the Cape of Lost Hope
Half way between the Bay of Desperation and the Archipelago of Self Loathing
From stories I’ve heard, I assumed it was his wife.
How dare you!
Cleaning up the Canadian Prairies seems like a good idea.
Plus, Canadian fossil fuels must be shipped across an ocean to get to European power stations. That just adds to the well-intentioned carbon footprint.
If only Trudeau and eastern politicians hadn’t cancelled the proposed pipeline from Alberta to eastern Canadian refineries.
I seem to remember that Quebec would not play ball even after a train carrying crude crashed through a town.
I proposed that they ship the oil down the St. Lawrence Seaway on old leaky tankers which stop at every Quebec city for a week on the trip.
All the time they are stopped run their engines to produce as much air pollution as possible.
Also sound their horns every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day.
First of all, Trudeau said Sep 2021 in Granby Quebec during the federal election “No new oilsands projects” As my Ukrainian Baba said many yrs ago “The tongue has no bone, it can flop anyway you want” As well Trudeau’s Govt brought in Bill C69 which has stopped any new oilsands projects. However, Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world. Canada doesn’t have to ship oil to the Europe to increase world supply and reduce price. Canada could send more oil to the USA and Asia therefore freeing up more Middle East oil to go to Europe.
Will leave for another day Venezuela & Iran oil production.
“Trudeau was vague about how much Canada can deliver as a replacement.”
None. We can deliver none as a replacement. Trudeau (along with some provincial leaders) has been working steadily to shut down Canada’s fossil fuel industries. We’re importing foreign oil into Canada rather than burn our own. Apparently burning foreign oil is emissions free.
Yes we are importing oil, primarily to the East coast because Quebec won’t allow a pipeline to go through and look what happened when we shipped oil by rail to New Brunswick via Lac Megantic.
To grow Alberta oilsands production, we must bring back the income tax and royalty changes that I initiated decades ago – 100% CCA rate and 25% DNP Royalty with a 1% gross minimum until payout. The federal Libs and NDP (the treasonous Left) killed the tax changes and Premier Ed Stelmach (idiot Conservative) ruined the Royalty agreement. The Stelmach sliding scale Royalty (increasing Royalty % with increased oil price) sterilized oil sands growth due to inflation. Destructive moves all around.
Atmospheric CO2 is still increasing, in a now-cooling world – one more disproof of the CAGW hypo. I predicted the current climate and energy debacle in 2002. Told you so 20 years ago.
It is impossible to believe that rational politicians could be this wrong for this long. The Left
are traitors, deliberately sabotaging North American energy production based on the frauds of CO2-driven catastrophic warming and intermittent, diffuse green energy schemes (scams).
We also need more export pipeline capacity to the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf Coasts – as a National Strategic Priority, with stiff jail sentences for those who delay, including corrupted leftist judges. We’ve been played for more than a decade by extremist anti-pipeline activists, who have gamed the system and abused the environmental process for political objectives.
However, I doubt that Trudeau is sincere about growing Alberta oil sands production – he has been dedicated to solving our vital energy needs with “unicorns” – grid connected wind and solar power that never worked efficiently or effectively – as I published twenty years ago.
Catastrophic Global Warming (CAGW) alarmism and grid-connected Green Energy schemes have always been supported by two groups – scoundrels, who know it’s a huge scam, and imbeciles, who believe in it
Canada is a net exporter of oil. Shipped over 4 million barrels/day last year to U.S.
Trudeau supported the Keystone pipeline cancelled by Biden (and by Obama). Trudeau also rescued the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion that will increase its capacity by about 600,000 barrels by day when completed next year.
The Energy East pipeline was killed by Quebec politicians and the Federal regulators.
Interprovincial pipelines are a federal jurisdiction. Quebec opposed Energy East but could not stop it. Trudeau did. Trudeau also banned tankers off the BC north coast and killed the northern gateway pipeline that would have exported oil to Asia and the world. He established new environmental blocks for new pipeline construction that makes any new major pipeline impossible. He requires that environmental assessments take into account the amount of global warming that will result from the burning of our oil but NOT for imported oil. We have enough oil to supply all of Canada and still export more than we do now.
I doubt that Trudeau’s motives in buying the T-M pipeline duplication project were to expedite its completion and use.
More likely to use taxpayer funds to cotton-ball it as long as possible.
Look at how many protests have shut down work since the government acquired the project, and haven’t been resolutely investigated and/or prosecuted.
Considering the $$$ additional costs & losses to national revenue all these protests / vandalism are continually causing, you would think that the guy who invoked the most powerful state force (Emergency Act) to remove & detain protestors would have jumped on the T-M vandals with both boots long ago.
However . . .
Trudeau publicly said he supported XL pipeline but behind closed doors was a different attitude. If one needs any proof, look at what he did to ensure Enbridge 5 pipeline remains operating vs what he did for XL.
Even a tyrannical, smarmy, Mammy singer PM knows that he shouldn’t eliminate Russian oil imports without using the opportunity to expand his country’s oil industry. This makes the absolute hatred of Prez Dimwit and his puppeteers toward normal Americans (the people who actually produce and deliver oil and gas products) all the more obvious. They keep their boots on our industry and actually revel in higher energy prices that stick it to the “rabble,” the “bitter clingers,” and the “Deplorables.”
This is a joke right – kinda like Trudeau – ok actually like Trudeau. Canada can’t help anybody, including itself. Trudeau’s policies have so decimated the oil industry here it can’t transport more oil to anywhere that it can be shipped out – either by land or sea. Trudeau is a complete buffon, well, actually he also models loud socks, and does a reasonable job of that.
Soooo a Buffoon in Clown Sox?
Just slap a “green” label on it. Good to go.
Really? Vlad’s cuck is going to be disobedient? And people actually believe him? Wow. Okely dokely, then.
Let’s be honest — while stopping Russian oil imports is the right thing to do, it won’t defund Putin. The oil Canada, the US, the UK, et al, don’t buy will be purchased somewhere else.
We need comprehensive international sanctions against Russian oil, gas and other petroleum or petroleum-based products. These take time to implement. We have similar sanctions against Venezuela and they work.
It depends on the crude oil storage capacity at China’s new super refineries that were financed in part by the West.
The USA does have sanctions against Venezuela, which Maduro found ridiculously easy to sidestep with his friends in Moscow. Venezuela ships it’s oil to Russia as ‘payment’ for a ‘debt’ then Russia legally sells oil to the rest of the world. Chances are that some of the oil Russia has been selling to the USA comes in part from Venezuela and something similar will happen with Russia. Oil is just to valuable to sanction effectively.
Venezuela oil exports are approx 15% of what they were and were dwindling before the sanctions due to Maduro’s incompetence. ie he wasn’t paying the bills so the foreign oil companies were shutting down production. And they Venezuela doesn’t have the technical skills to explore and produce oil.
What is damaging for Russia is what they can no longer import that they need. That is in reality not a great deal. They are obviously self sufficient in energy, almost self sufficient in food (and what the import is mainly luxury – fruit and nuts). They have imported Western designed cars, trucks and JCBs and aircraft, and a chunk of pharmaceuticals. Plenty of luxury goods and branded clothing. But little of this is essential. It’s far from clear that they need to sell large amounts of oil and gas for Western hard currency in order to survive. That’s a rather different picture in comparison with Venezuela or Iran. Dollars and Euros have limited use for Russia right now. Sanctions on exports to Russia see to that.
All depends on China. China and North Korea could absorb all Russia’s oil exports and reduce their imports from other countries. Same with Russia’s coal and natural gas. ie if China doesn’t buy into Russia sanctions, the sanctions won’t work.
The new western world . Never take care of your won people when you can help others. Green is going to destroy our world and what we say is meaningless to our leaders. So how can we make this madness stop Captain Ron
But is is so virtuous.
Could it be that all of this talk about producing more oil, right away, is designed to fool the stock markets and investors into calming down, since our leaders said it would be OK?
Oh well, it’s the thought that counts.
Green overriding green.
Meanwhile here in the states: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2022/03/08/nets-spike-poll-majority-dems-would-abandon-us-if-invaded
Biden wants to buy crude oil from Iran and Venezuela, but kills supplies from Canada and the US.
It reveals how much the Left hates ordinary markets and freedoms in both countries.
Well he hasn’t exactly killed supplies from Canada, just have to continue to ship by rail and truck, much less efficient and more likely for spills. I witness daily the trains of crude heading across the border in our prairie town and we’re not even a major crossing point for it.
I assume when you say ‘efficient’ you also mean expensive. Railway is maybe 3 to 4 times as expensive as a pipeline. As well, the railways capacity to ship XL pipeline 830k bbls per day. A typical railway car contains approx 700 bbls of oil. That would be 1130 railway cars per day, then they have to return empty.
We have sanctions on Iran but will lift them as soon as Brandon gets a new deal that pretends to keep the mullahs from developing nuclear weapons. Guess who is brokering the deal (and I’m not making this up) — Russia!
Meanwhile, Venezuela, a country that would have to upgrade to be considered a shitehole, is chomping at the bit to get the sanctions lifted on them. Imagine buying oil from a dictatorship where citizens have no rights instead of buying from Russia.
If only North Korea had oil we could buy!
Wait — what? More fossil fuels? I thought Tru-duh was supposed to be the world leader of the green-police. Shouldn’t he be offering to ship out more pinwheel blades instead?
Trudope conveniently forgets that the Energy East pipeline which would have enabled European supply from western Canada was canceled on HIS watch in 2016 after having finished the Canadian permitting process under his predecessor Harper.
Wow what a fantastic gesture (he’s very good at gestures, not so much actions)! Canada has not imported any Russian oil since 2019, but hey, he says all the politically correct and woke things.
Maybe they can ship dual cargoes with wood pellets to burn and return with smoldering EVs in the hold.
Oh, and I thought Canada’s main contribution to the cause was resettlement of Ukrainian refugees to go along with Afghans, Iranians, and Venezuelans.
Just don’t dare try and slip it across the Hillary line at the U.S. border. You can ship it through the Arctic seas or circumnavigate the globe but not cross the Hillary line.
Trudeau’s promises aren’t worth a bucket of warm spit.
True Trudeau’s promises aren’t worth a …. However, if you read closely to what he said, he never made a promise.
Is he “green” as in naive, or “green” as in blowing CO2, or “green” as in Grinch?
Not green naive. But the others. He’s not an intelligent man. (I read humans get their intelligence genes from their mothers. God’s little joke on men. Obviously true for Justin.) But he chooses the wrong or evil path so unerringly that it can’t be due to mere naivety.
The man is a cockwomble, great Scottish word, look it up, I use it at every opportunity with this weasel.
Accurate: cockwomble — “A completely useless individual that spouts continual bullsh*t”