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LNG exports could stop creation of more coal burning plants

The failure this week at the United Nation’s Climate Change conference in Madrid was predictable, given the current agreement’s flaws.

And yet, Canada’s Liberals are ranking members of the Climate Change Industry. They comply even though their accession has harmed our country. They govern as though they ran Denmark or Luxembourg with no resource industry, tiny populations and relatively small landmasses.

By swearing allegiance to the United Nations’ Climate Change religion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and various other Canadian politicians have declared war against pipelines, resources, and the Canadian people. They have listened to politically correct zealots only and ascribed to fabricated regulations and rhetoric concocted by people with little to lose.

The result is Canada has missed out on building Canada’s single best contribution to the cause: the creation of a world- class industry of LNG export plants to stop the building of scads more coal-burning plants in developing nations. They have also missed out on other meaningful initiatives such as exporting Canada’s world- class technologies like scrubbers for factories or plants that burn fuel as well as in the field of carbon sequestration to capture and store carbon dioxide.

Instead, they ascribe to a United Nations document that Australia just pointed out doesn’t even give countries like them, that export clean LNG, “credits” for doing so. Former prime minister Stephen Harper realized this problem and objected, but Trudeau’s gang has tacitly gone along like a Boy Scout being misled by creepy Scout leaders.

It’s just plain stupid for Canada to adhere selflessly, and self- destructively, while countries like Germany preach but burn lots of notably dirty coal. The inconvenient truth is that Germany’s renewables need backup because the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow.

Of course, it’s not too late for Trudeau’s team to redeem itself. They must fast track the LNG projects that are in various early, fragile, stages of development and push aggressively to build many more and the pipelines or ports to serve them.

That’s what the Americans have done and now have 17 on the drawing boards in addition to quite a few already built despite jumping into the business after Canada did. They are a year or two away from being the biggest exporter in the world.

The results has been a drop in American emissions because the exploitation of natural gas for LNG exports has also resulted in the closure of giant coal plants in favour of gas-burning ones.

Coal is the biggest culprit in all of this, representing 27 per cent of all global energy used. This percentage hasn’t changed in four decades and won’t unless LNG is available.

But Canada’s Liberals live in an Ottawa bubble and obviously don’t get out a lot. Even a former official with the International Energy Agency urged Canada at an international conference to get moving quickly with LNG plants or miss the boat. Maria van der Hoeven, a retired Dutch politician, said in Malaysia that the only question is whether Canada can overcome its regulatory hurdles as demand jumps in China, Korea and Japan.

Ten years ago, there were more than 20 LNG projects proposed for Canada’s west coast and at least one in New Brunswick. Now there are two smaller projects in B.C. and one in Nova Scotia, using Alberta gas shipped to Ontario then via the U. S. because Ottawa has allowed Quebec to block pipelines and transmission lines from other provinces.

A third plant is in the offing for B. C., but given the ignoramuses in Ottawa and Victoria, it getting the green light is about as likely as Republican senators impeaching Trump.

Facts are, Canada’s federal government is a complete disgrace.