Comments by "C H" (@crhu319) on "9000 Ukraine KIA. Borrell war must go on. Trudeau, no LNG for Germany. Sanna dance support. Update 1" video.
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That's all nonsense:
There is no "LNG supply" anywhere. LNG is cryogenically frozen from gas extracted from combined oil/gas deposits, which may require considerable and costly input ("fracking") to lift to the surface.
Shell and other companies have held offshore exploration leases and not found anything worth the big investment to extract, though that logic may change as LNG prices were depressed in Europe by competing with Russian conventional gas. Asia is easier to ship to and less discriminating, and it works for Europe just as well to supply Asia from Canada so more Mideast gas can flow to Europe.
Conservative governments co existed at both levels in Nova Scotia for a couple of years. Liberals were quite happy to take $ for exploration licenses which is their only role. They permitted an LNG port at Goldsboro that will likely not be built.
The actual opposition to oil extraction - and gas is never explored for without the risk of finding oil - is driven by the very profitable fishing industry. They rightly do not want their fishing grounds damaged like the Gulf of Mexico or Prince William Sound.
Only onshore gas lines are in Halifax so with no big local market to serve, an LNG export port would have to be built, but this is not viable without gas to export. Local gas is not sufficient. And Alberta gas is fracked - thus higher emissions than coal - and was unacceptable to Europe before this year, and immediately upon peace will be unacceptable again. It's a poor investment.
Even if Alberta gas were acceptable, most of it is wasted "upgrading" bitumen to WCS. And Quebec will not allow further fossil pipelines through it. So the only potential export port would be Churchill Manitoba (so cold it can probably freeze CH4 to a liquid in the open) which is only open a few months a year. Good luck with that.
But you'll vote Poilievre and blame Trudeau and end up poorer because none of the policies that need to change (Alberta not exporting bitumen but using it to build things, fracking banned all over, electrification of marine sector, financing help for communities to take over and upgrade grids to be reliable industry bases) will happen under "pureblood" pseudo-libertarian pig-raping Conservative party of Canada.
In case this isn't clear: go rape a pig, Conservative. You caused every single problem you complain of. You're cancer. Your kind should move west where you belong.
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