Returning turbine for Russian natural gas pipeline also shows Canada is unreliable on sanctions
confirming that Canada can often only be counted on when there is no cost. But Ottawa was only in the unenviable position of having to choose between honouring sanctions and helping an ally, because of Germany and its decades of bad energy policies. Berlin chose to become overly dependent on an enemy state, while eschewing both fossil fuels and nuclear energy in a failed attempt to meet its ambitious climate targets and appease its anti-nuclear movement.
with the Soviet Union to supply it with gas from Siberia. NATO rightly raised concerns at the time, but was assured by the West German government that Russia would never account for more than 10 per cent of its natural gas supplies.Article content. And although Russia has also been providing the country with coal and uranium, it is its control over Europe’s gas supply that has given Moscow so much leverage and allowed it to fund its ongoing war of aggression in Ukraine with western cash.
At the same time, Germany has spent the past 20 years aggressively trying to transition its electrical grid to renewable sources of energy. The country’s over-reliance on wind and solar have caused its own set of problems, but Berlin’s biggest mistake was phasing out nuclear energy. In 2011, Germany’s 17 nuclear reactors produced about
of its electricity. The first attempt to phase them out was announced in the early 2000s by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s coalition government, in which the Greens held the balance of power.Article content
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