Essay by Eric Worrall
The Trudeau government is trying to convince everyone that tar sands oil can be a climate friendly fuel.
Record oil exports test Trudeau’s climate-change ambitions
4TH MAY 2022
BY: BLOOMBERGCanada is becoming more reliant on the fossil-fuel sector, even as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeks to strengthen the country’s policies on climate change.
Oil, natural gas, coal and refined petroleum exports hit a one-month record of C$17.4-billion ($13.6-billion) in March, according to data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada. Shipments totaled about C$150-billion over the past 12 months — also a record.
As a share of total merchandise exports, the fossil-fuel industry represented 27.4% of shipments in March — matching the all-time high set under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2014.
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“Canada has decided through its policy actions that an aggressive decarbonization strategy is a better route to net zero than conceding the market to dirtier suppliers of oil and gas,” said Ed Greenspon, CEO of the Public Policy Forum, an Ottawa-based think tank that argued against an accelerated phaseout in a March report. “As an exporter, this is good news for the Canadian economy. As a reliable exporter, it is good news for the world economy.”
The Trudeau government’s plan to meet its climate targets relies on a 42% cut in emissions from the oil and gas sector over the next eight years. It leans heavily on technical improvements — such as carbon capture — while still allowing for barrels to be pumped, to the chagrin of environmentalists.
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Read more: https://www.miningweekly.com/article/record-oil-exports-test-trudeaus-climate-change-ambitions-2022-05-04/rep_id:3650
I can’t help thinking this wasn’t the kind of green government Trudeau voters were hoping for at the last election. But as Trudeau once said, “No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave them there”.
all the while driving private sector canadians into poverty with higher energy costs via carbon taxes and the clean fuel act. this is socialism at it’s worst. the great reset in you face.
all of canada’s oil is exported to the us.
The problem in Canada is that the country is now ruled by an ideologically-driven cult determined to destroy everything they possibly can related to fossil fuel production, regardless of what it takes. The rot is demonstrated by a response Chrystia Freeland, the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and the Minister of Finance, gave to a question by CBC’s Chris Hall on his weekly Saturday morning program “The House” the week following her budget.
To Hall’s question of why the creation of The Canada Growth Fund and the Innovation Agency . . . “is a government priority rather than being left to the private sector,” Freeland replied:
“. . . the reality is we need to move really, really fast. And we need to move fast for two reasons. The first one is we know we need to bring our emissions down really, really sharply by 2030 and by 2050 in order to save the planet (my emphasis). The second reason we need to move fast on the Green Transition is the rest of the world is moving too, and if Canada you know, if we don’t get our skates on then we are going to be left behind in this powerful economic transformation.” (direct transcript from “The House” – Sat. April 9, 2020)
Of course there was no challenge to what would, under more rational conditions, be labelled “false” and “untrue.” “Save the planet” indeed. What hubris!
The power elites who spout such absolute (and ignorant) views unfortunately hold the power to create and enforce policies that wreak havoc on the lives of their countries’ citizens. They have been accurately labelled “China’s useful idiots” (The Global Warming Policy Foundation’s 2020 Briefing 51 by Patricia Adams – The Red and the Green: China’s Useful Idiots.)
Canadians face a dire future having placed individuals such as these in charge. The country is already suffering the consequences of decisions made by ultra-radical ministers – such as Steven Guilbeault (Environment and Climate Change) and Stephen Wilkinson (Natural Resources) – all led by the ultra-woke PM Justin Trudeau who ensures that all the servile lackeys in his caucus “toe the line.”
As soon as I saw the term “tar sands” I knew this article was garbage. There are tar pits in California. No “tar” in Canada. Its sand with oil in it therefore its OIL SANDS in Canada. And yes its clean as the law requires the land to be reclaimed – cleaner than before as there is no oil in the sand or dirt.