Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be feeling isolated in his campaign against fossil fuels, especially Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), as leaders around the world reduce their countries’ reliance on inadequate renewable energy and tone down their own rhetoric about lowering GHG emissions. But for political and ideological reasons his government cannot admit to the terribly damaging consequences of its green policies and the urgent need to fundamentally change course. To the contrary, it keeps doubling down on its climate obsession.
Witness the latest pronouncement from Steven Guilbeault, minister of environment and climate change, that the government will block new pipelines from Alberta that could deliver LNG to the Maritimes for export to Europe and India. Lest there be any lingering doubt, Trudeau declared there was no business case for them — having previously trammelled potential projects with regulations designed precisely to make them uneconomic.
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