Leave it to the Yanks to make us look the jerks we were, the day on behalf of all Canadians, Prime Minister Trudeau told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz there was no business case for selling our abundant natural gas to his energy-starved country..Now, as reported elsewhere by Western Standard energy reporter Shaun Polczer, “Germany’s state-owned Securing Energy For Europe (SEFE), last week signed a 20-year deal with Arlington-based Venture Global LNG to supply about 100 bcf year through its own terminal on Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana.”. LNG export terminal in Freeport, TXLNG tanker at Freeport, Texas, from which Venture Global exports natural gas. .So, there was a business case, after all… A prime ministerial lie then, plain and simple..Of course, there was always a business case..Russia’s aggression in Ukraine interrupted its natural gas supplies, and Germany was looking at a long, cold winter. People were desperate. Stories circulated that Germans were even gathering wood in national parks. (To make matters worse, the Nordstream natural gas pipeline was blown up a little later.) So the business case was our NATO ally had a big problem and price was not the issue — the issue was security of supply..But Trudeau turned them down flat. He offered Scholz helium… in 10 years time. Nice touch, if insulting the leader of the world’s fourth-largest economy was his goal..For those who subscribe to the theory it was the U.S. that destroyed Nordstream by the way, there is a further layer of intrigue. Whoever did the job certainly knew how to improve the business case for Germany buying gas somewhere other than Russia..Be that as it may..It has become increasingly clear in the months since the only thing that matters to this government is Canada meet the absurd carbon reduction goals the Trudeaucracy set for it.. Gas bubbleMethane surfaces from a ruptured Nordstream pipeline. .Nothing else matters. Not the interests of allies. Not the lost opportunity for practical indigenous reconciliation that's the consequence of shutting down resource development. And certainly not the inflation driven by carbon taxes that makes life increasingly difficult and expensive for so many ordinary Canadians. (Fuel producers face increased carbon taxes July 1, which will be inevitably passed down to consumers.) People who don’t have a trust fund to fall back on will feel it..If Trudeau really cared about the atmosphere, as opposed to his own incomprehensible ambitions, he would have done the deal. For, not surprisingly, the Germans un-mothballed some coal-fired generators and got busy pumping carbon into the atmosphere. And who can blame them, or the Chinese or the Indians, when a country with gas to sell aplenty decides not that it can’t, but that it won’t..What a farce.
