Canada has the potential to bolster Europe’s energy security through a new alliance, but experts say it doesn’t necessarily mean tankers crossing the Atlantic Ocean laden with oil or liquefied natural gas.
Prime Minister Mark Carney was in Strasbourg, France, this week where he and European Union leadership discussed strengthening ties on several fronts amid strained relations with the United States.
Werner Antweiler, an economist at the University of British Columbia, says Europe is in a “precarious situation” as it aims to pivot away from Russian energy imports following that country’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Canada has pipelines and port infrastructure to export oil and gas from the West Coast to Asia, but no such option exists in the east, and any such project could take a decade or more to come to fruition.
In the meantime, Antweiler says European companies have the ability to secure a stable gas supply from Canada through what’s known as swap contracts, where a cargo headed for Asia, for instance, could be traded with another one bound for its shores.
Rachel Doran, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, sees a promising opportunity to supply critical minerals to Europe, helping it transition away from fossil fuels and grow its clean power supply.
i don’t remember long head Carney asking any Canadians how they feel about this. this azz hole needs to be arrested
Who in Canada asked for this? I sure as hell didn’t vote for what carney has been doing lately, or even the government with their policies, they don’t answer to the people and it seems like the only way they decide to do anything is if it benefits their bank account, while mine gets smaller and the amount of groceries i get along with fuel shrinks as well.
I don’t want a partnership with the eu, especially for energy, it’s going to make everything here even more expensive for me and my family, and we are getting by just as is.
Again, I ask who these policies and trade deals benefit cause it’s not me, a tax paying canadian, we still have the provincial trade barriers up and still don’t know what he agreed with China
This BrianiacAl below me should be Canada’s next priminister
The energy of a million immigrants on giant treadmills to turn a generator?
Energy Alliance: Both the EU and Canada will buy Chinese solar panels and wind generators and claim they ended climate change and the weather will be exactly the same forever!
Jimmy J
Don’t blame America for Cuban problems. Country has been ruled by corrupt communist dictators first Castro and then his brother and tyranny continues. If USA can make peace with Japan Germany Vietnam
“Canada and the EU want an energy alliance. What would it look like?”
…best to ask Brookfield, UNDRIP and of course ensure the payoff to a certain group… Canadians have little, if any, input anymore thanks to this TrudeauCarney era of mismanagement.
You’re seriously asking what a good energy alliance might look like. We had that and a multitude of other free trade deals with a very close neighbor of ours. Then Carney pi%$ed them off and insulted them by pandering to Quebec for votes.
Well for starters a good alliance would probably include at least one pipeline to the east coast that doesnt transit the US …….
[CNN—This nuclear plant was meant to free Cuba from dependence on oil. Now, it’s a symbol of its shattered dreams]
Why can’t the EU and Canada invite Cuba to become an associate member of the EU too, and build them nuclear power plants. It’s sad that the people of Cuba have to suffer needlessly due to American Soviet era politics. It’s time to pull Cuba into the EU umbrella and end the suffering of the peaceful Cuban people! Europeans and Canadians have a lot to gain with Cuba in the family of peaceful nations!
@ best, hahaha you been punished, standing in corner with red azz, old liberal guy sitting behind you wanking off, so fuuuuny!
Anonymous the village idiot…..there you are! Did you go fo a long walk to clear your head? Having a hollow head must have helped.
But there’s no business case! You wonder why AB distrusts anything emanating from the federal Liberals? What carbon poison pill will Carney apply to batter prosperity?
Just matter of time before ottawa is nuked, by Russia or USA
@ Dee Ironsides.
Well said and Canada is in bad shape with the present Prime Minister that is being controlled by the NEW WORLD ORDER and he is all for that and is using Canada as a pawn. Unless the left wakes up and really thinks before they vote we are going to be in such a mess that we will never get back to the Canada that we once were.
DAVID BEST….. IS THE BEST AT BEING AN IDIOT ….THATS WHY ” DAVID BEST”
Hey, we can use Churchill as a port to ship to Europe. With the port being unreliable to get ships in or out from the ice that extends pretty much out to Newfoundland. I am sure the customers over in Europe will be more then willing to wait for a shipment.
We accept unreliable Green electricity here in Canada, why would Europe not want unreliable LNG or oil?
It means the EU gets discounted energy from Canada. You know, like what happens with exports to the USA. So in spite of more Carney lies, Canada goes from being a vassel of the US to being a colony (again) of Europe. But Europe being a proper Socialist bunch, we here in Canada have been told to cheer with enthusiasm.
But fear not, it will be discussed in parliament then voted on. By a government that enticed a bunch of trained seals to cross over to its side to achieve a majority vote. Can’t trust an election.
Anyone else notice how Socialists and other Left leaning folks really fear democracy that they can not control.
The AfD Party who is gaining popularity in Germany wants out of the EU along with other countries. Greenland just voted not to join the EU and instead made a security agreement with the USA. And dumb old Canada excitedly joining the failing organization.
Anonymous is a village idiot….
Reported in the European press is that a major think tank surveyed thousands of EU citizens in different countries about what they thought of the EU and 70 percent …. YES 70 percent of respondents rejected the EU and many want a brexit like referendum to leave the EU but they said the EU parliament won’t let a vote for a referendum take place. The most against the EU were in France, Germany and Italy. And Carney wants Canada to get sucked into that mess.
That’s 10 years too late. Canada lost tens of billions because Trudeau and Quebec didn’t want a terminal for LNG/Oil, for the EU. See how much the US has made since 2022, only.
Oops. Grain ships. But there is oil transport most of the way to Churchill. A good option.
“Canada has pipelines and port infrastructure to export oil and gas from the West Coast to Asia, but no such option exists in the east, and any such project could take a decade or more to come to fruition”
Inaccurate. Two shipments of oil went out of Churchill recently and pipelines already exist from the west. Existing capabilities can fund expansion.
David best is just like monkey that found a cell phone .and started playing with it
Follow the money.
Anonymous the village idiot…wait a minute! The answer is very clear. Change yiur handle from anonymous to “Village Idiot” simple….. like you
Anonymous the village idiot…prescription or illegal medication? What is it that makes you loopy.
Here’s what it would look like, Ricky ticky tavy, tic tock, zullu,tango, foxtrot, ugh,ugh, Zillow pillow, then sck everyone dry
David Best
Anonymous the village idiot…regardless of what handle you use, it’s easy to find you. Your comments are long winded and written by a Numpty.
Anonymous the village idiot…why are you not using your anonymous handle anymore? More than one personality? Envious of others?
Anonymous the village idiot…the biggest complement you can give is to be just like me when you grow up, but try and focus. Your not me.
Oh and Japan now buys LNG from the USA, thanks to Trudeau turning them away.
Germany and Japan came cap in hand asking for LNG at the beginning of the Ukraine war. Carney advised Trudeau to turn them away because “there was no business case” for Canada under the Libs to invest in our carbon infrastructure. Carney was always anti carbon.
Then he did a 180 and people fell for it.
It would not inly look like a disaster, it would be an ACTUAL disaster. But we all know disasters are par for the course with Carney and the Liberals.
Liberals are pushing green energy. How does he propose to export electricity to the EU? An extension cord???
Liberals are fighting pipelines. There may be a second one to Vancouver port, but the waterways are clogged, and it is on the wrong coast to ship to EU.
Liberals are pushing anything Ontario and Quebec. They do not have much, and the Trans Canada pipeline is not capable.
We do have Uranium, but do we want more environmentally toxic nuclear waste generated?
This is just posturing and selfie like Trudeau…” Look at all the good I am doing, but do not look too close”.
Sounds like the dictator wants to make sure his sheep are in alignment with his world vision as his handlers want.
Then a whole bunch of MOU’s to come out so in maybe 20 years a pipeline may or may not get built to the eastern shores.
Carney was advising Trudeau that there was no business case for that and now he is the great hero and has the plan!
Either way all I see is Canadians cost of living going higher and higher with nothing to help out the voters that are Canadians.
Then the Conservatives will come out with all the negativity and have no plan to actually work with and maybe give the Canadian voters another option for parliament as they are lost with the influx of Reformers and Wildrose in the party. Also Carney will work some back room deals to have a couple more cross the floor.
F you Karny and you EU alliance.
A project that never gets completed. That’s what it would look like so long as liberals have a say.
They were laughed at by European journalists a year ago for failing to have any resources ready to trade due to their pipeline phobias.
Trudeau said there was no business case, when the German chancellor came to Ottawa asking about buying our oil and natural gas. Carney was the economic advisor at the time.
They were holding off until they could suck us back into the EU orbit., and flood us with their Middle East newcomers.