Canada signs landmark LNG energy deal with Germany

[riversedge]

Source: bbc


3 hours ago Nadine Yousif Senior Canada reporter


Canada has announced a landmark energy agreement with Germany that will see the first-ever long-term shipments of liquified natural gas (LNG) from Canada to Europe in the coming years.

It comes as European nations search for new reliable energy sources and as Canada seeks to diversify trade away from the US.

The deal was announced on Wednesday in Vancouver by Canada's energy minister, Tim Hodgson, who called it "an exciting and important milestone".

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For Canada, it is a major step towards trade diversification away from the US. In 2024, virtually all of Canada's LNG exports went to the US, according to data by Canada's energy regulator.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4pwxwvz1go

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There is also an article in LBN about Canada buying planes from Sweden instead of USA Boeing.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143671236

For Canada, it is a major step towards trade diversification away from the US. In 2024, virtually all of Canada's LNG exports went to the US, according to data by Canada's energy regulator.

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Bloomberg via Getty Images An image showing an LNG carrier loaded at the LNG Canada docks in Kitimat, British Columbia. There is port infrastructure visible, a large ship and LNG flares in the background emitting from the facilitiy. It is set on the water, with a picturesque backdrop of small mountains and pristine, green landscape.Bloomberg via Getty Images
The deal would see one million tons of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) exported annually from British Columbia to Germany.

[Cheezoholic]

1. Rec! Rec! n/t

[EarthFirst]

2. An agreement that may last up to 20 years...

The Trump administration will take decades to recover from…

May even be generational.

[North Coast Lawyer]

3. Excellent

Canadian LNG is a great replacement for Russian LNG. Might be why Russian trolls and bots are trying to gum up the works by encouraging Alberta to separate.

[OnlinePoker]

5. It will have to be shipped all the way from Canada's north Pacific coast, through the Panama Canal to Germany

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And, it's incumbent on another pipeline to the coast being built and a production facility being constructed. There are several First Nations along the proposed route that are opposed to the pipeline going through their territory, so I'll be surprised if anything starts getting shipped for years down the road.

[applegrove]

7. There is this trade off they do in shipping where a German LNG

ship collecting LNG off the coast of British Columbia in Canada on the Pacific to Germany through the Panama Canal would be traded for an LNG ship going from the Gulf of Mexico to Asia the other way through the Panama Canal. The LNG ship coming off the coast of BC would then go to Asia, while the LNG ship in the Gulf of Mexixo would turn and go to Germany. Neither ship then has to go through the Panama Canal. This is apparently common. They just swap.

[wolfie001]

4. I interpret this as a backhanded slap in the orange fatso's painted mug. Amirite?

[James48]

6. Where are they piping this from?

Is the conversion plant right near the ocean? Where are the gas fields feeding this from?