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Originally Posted by StickMan
Someone (probably a conservative, I think it was a crazy farmer) said that if we could sell natural gas to China to replace their coal, it would reduce China's emissions by 30%. That wouldn't cost Canada anything, and would make us money and create jobs. That would probably reduce global emissions 20x more then the 0.5% reduction we can get by reducing our per Capita Canadian emissions. Ya ya, natal gas bad, fossil fuel bad, but natural gas big reduction in emissions compared to coal. The goal is reducing global emissions.
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Cool, and we make that happen how?
Who's paying to replace/refit those coal power plants?
How are we convincing China to spend more on our gas than their, or other's, coal?
I guess we could pay for that...maybe with a tax of some kind.
Oh wait, I forgot that if it wasn't for Trudeau, we could just tell China that from now on they are gonna be buying our natrual gas and there's nothing they can do about it.
I suspect now you'll say that Trudeau is killing the oil and gas industry, and will ignore the fact that
A) Natural gas pipelines are currently being built to the coast for export
B) At least part of the reason for a lack of export capacity on the west coast is due to lack of market (ie China isn't super interested in buying our gas to displace coal)
If I missed any of your points please let me know.