Before Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government dropped its goal of stopping thermal coal exports by 2030, it allowed a massive expansion to Canada’s biggest thermal coal mine to advance without environmental assessment.
“they won’t stop using the only means of electricity generation they’ve already invested” - That is not a Canadian problem. Canada either helps with combustion or doesn’t.
“just because we tell them it’s bad for the environment” - India doesn’t need Canada to explain the effects.
“we’re still burning coal for electricity in Saskatchewan” - That is a Canadian problem.
India is willing to buy energy so instead of giving them elitist, entitled, supremacist lectures and coal, you could be building and selling them renewables. Your goal here is to profit off fossil combustion and that is the reason you are choosing coal customers that happen to be in India. I seek to minimize emissions while you try to increase emissions, that is how we differ.
“they won’t stop using the only means of electricity generation they’ve already invested” - That is not a Canadian problem. Canada either helps with combustion or doesn’t.
“just because we tell them it’s bad for the environment” - India doesn’t need Canada to explain the effects.
“we’re still burning coal for electricity in Saskatchewan” - That is a Canadian problem.
Yeah.
They need coal. We got coal. They either buy slavery-free Canadian coal or they look elsewhere. Refusing to sell coal changes nothing.
India doesn’t need our elitist, entitled, supremacist lectures. They need coal.
India is willing to buy energy so instead of giving them elitist, entitled, supremacist lectures and coal, you could be building and selling them renewables. Your goal here is to profit off fossil combustion and that is the reason you are choosing coal customers that happen to be in India. I seek to minimize emissions while you try to increase emissions, that is how we differ.
India: hey, I need coal to generate electricity.
PotatoMuncher: Hey. Lemme teach all about potato-batteries. We got all the potatoes you need.
India: I got potatoes. I need coal for my power plants as well as foundries.
PotatoMuncher: We’ve got world’s best aluminum and steel. Produced with renewable energy.
India: I don’t want to rely on you. I got power plants and furnaces. I want to produce my own. Sell coal.
PotatoMuncher: I seek to minimize emissions. I know what’s best for everyone else. No coal for you.
India: Were you dropped on your head? Or just an ignoramus elitist with a colonial worldview?
PotatoMuncher: I got all organic, gmo free, pesticides free, fair market, 100% Canadian potatoes.
India: Stick em where the poutine don’t shine.