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Originally Posted by Azure
Not sure I get your post.
I've long argued that we can't possibly expect countries like India to forgo using coal for energy production just because it isn't 'green.'
They are doing exactly what we did.
My problem is that we aren't helping them move to LNG faster considering LNG is a proven coal replacement.
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There's a couple problems with that.
1) LNG is very expensive. With India's infrastructure already built for coal to power, LNG would need to be many times cheaper than it has been so far
2) India's growth is such that there just isn't enough. The power demand for their developing economy is insatiable and LNG is too expensive to be anything but marginal right now. Having said that, their plan is to build out renewables much faster and skip the "transition" fuel.
There's certainly room for critique of their strategy, but to suggest Canada shouldn't get it's house in order because India is using more coal is still a poor argument