Build more pipelines! Export more oil and gas! Canadian hydrocarbon boosters’ cries to exploit the European energy crisis are deafening. Should Canada give in? No, and the reasons why are rooted in the nature of energy transitions, both past and present.<\/p>\n
Energi Media recently interviewed oil and gas experts Kevin Birn, an economist with IHS Markit, and Richard Masson, an executive fellow at the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, about Canada’s ability to help Europe. Unfortunately, there is little Canada can do in the short-term. Pipelines to get oil to market take the better part of a decade to build, while LNG plants and the gas pipelines to supply feedstock are roughly the same.<\/p>\n