Canada’s $30BN Gamble To Become An Energy Superpower
Scape @ Wed Jul 19, 2023 6:44 pm
bootlegga @ Tue Jul 25, 2023 7:42 am
Too little, too late. Canada should have built this project 20 or 30 years ago and shipped LNG to Japan, which has been using it for decades.
Thanos @ Tue Jul 25, 2023 9:41 am
And we've also done absolutely fuck all to exploit the opportunity presented by Russian gas flow to Europe being cut off, probably permanently, by the economic blowback caused by the Ukraine war. Canada over the last several decades (at least) is nothing but blown opportunity after blown opportunity after blown opportunity. And this is entirely due to our stunted parochial outlook on these opportunities, as well as the sheer cowardice our federal government (especially when the country is run by a Liberal government backed up by the federal NDP) shows in the face of any protests by eco-activists against resource development & sales. Some protestors somewhere don't want something to happen? Then you can bet your last dollar the Canadian federal government will fall all over itself to kiss their obstructionist asses.
Canada's impact on the world stage has been reduced to nothing but a goody-two-shoes performance of self-righteous indignation combined with a sneering contempt towards anything that doesn't fit the agenda of virtue-signaling activists. We were never going to be a major contributor towards much of anything, due to too small of a population and too small of an industrial footprint to back up our claims. But we still could have been a significant contributor, one that filled in the niches when other players withdrew or got knocked out of certain roles & sectors, or one that could have led the way & taken advantage of certain openings until other competitors arrived later on for their piece of the action. And none of this has happened, simply because the disdain and indifference that afflicts everything in this country (from our exports to our competitiveness to our armed forces) ensures that most of our few efforts at anything of significance always chronically and endemically fall short of our rhetorical claims.
This country is an actor. Not a contributor, just an actor, just a performer, just an insincere talker. There is nothing behind any of our words anymore, either internationally and far too often domestically as well. And this will never change, not as long as this national attitude prevails over literally everything we say we want or are going to do. Canada is all talk, and very little else.
bootlegga @ Wed Aug 02, 2023 8:13 am
Thanos Thanos:
And we've also done absolutely fuck all to exploit the opportunity presented by Russian gas flow to Europe being cut off, probably permanently, by the economic blowback caused by the Ukraine war. Canada over the last several decades (at least) is nothing but blown opportunity after blown opportunity after blown opportunity. And this is entirely due to our stunted parochial outlook on these opportunities, as well as the sheer cowardice our federal government (especially when the country is run by a Liberal government backed up by the federal NDP) shows in the face of any protests by eco-activists against resource development & sales. Some protestors somewhere don't want something to happen? Then you can bet your last dollar the Canadian federal government will fall all over itself to kiss their obstructionist asses.
The sad reality is without a proper export facility, we simply cannot exploit the opportunity to ship LNG around the world.
As I said, we should have built this decades ago, and building it now when many of our potential customers (Western Europe, Japan) are moving to renewable energy or nuclear energy.
Harper tried to do an end run around environmentalists and First Nations and wound up getting every project he approved killed or cancelled, and at least the Liberals approach has gotten TMX built.
Thanos Thanos:
Canada's impact on the world stage has been reduced to nothing but a goody-two-shoes performance of self-righteous indignation combined with a sneering contempt towards anything that doesn't fit the agenda of virtue-signaling activists. We were never going to be a major contributor towards much of anything, due to too small of a population and too small of an industrial footprint to back up our claims. But we still could have been a significant contributor, one that filled in the niches when other players withdrew or got knocked out of certain roles & sectors, or one that could have led the way & taken advantage of certain openings until other competitors arrived later on for their piece of the action. And none of this has happened, simply because the disdain and indifference that afflicts everything in this country (from our exports to our competitiveness to our armed forces) ensures that most of our few efforts at anything of significance always chronically and endemically fall short of our rhetorical claims.
This country is an actor. Not a contributor, just an actor, just a performer, just an insincere talker. There is nothing behind any of our words anymore, either internationally and far too often domestically as well. And this will never change, not as long as this national attitude prevails over literally everything we say we want or are going to do. Canada is all talk, and very little else.
This country is an actor. Not a contributor, just an actor, just a performer, just an insincere talker. There is nothing behind any of our words anymore, either internationally and far too often domestically as well. And this will never change, not as long as this national attitude prevails over literally everything we say we want or are going to do. Canada is all talk, and very little else.
A big problem is that Canada is located next to the largest consumer base in the world, so almost as soon as a company here pioneers something or grows into a global competitor, a larger company in the US just buys them up and ships the profits and technology south.
As for us being unserious, it's because more and more Canadians are becoming more like Americans and thinking they exist in a vacuum because the country is surrounded by oceans and can do pretty much whatever they want in isolation from the rest of the world.