For years, Germany was held up as an example of how green a nation could be. They had ambitious plans, and they were investing massive amounts of money into renewable energy forms such as solar, wind, and biofuels. Germany was apparently well-positioned to reach the still-mythical status of being a net zero nation with their emissions. We were told we have to follow Germany s example if we wanted to save the world from dreaded climate change. Well, Germany just quietly and pretty sheepishly announced their returning to coal-fired electricity generation.
00:00:00.000For years, Germany was held up as an example of how green a nation could be.
00:00:05.260They had ambitious plans, and they were investing massive amounts of money into renewable energy forms such as solar, wind, and biofuels.
00:00:13.320Germany was apparently well-placed to reach the still-mythical status of being a net-zero nation with their emissions.
00:00:20.240We were told we have to follow Germany's example if we wanted to save the world from dreaded climate change.
00:00:25.220I mean, otherwise oceans would rise, polar bears would die, and the world would run out of fluffy bunnies.
00:00:30.000If one was to question Germany's energy path, of course, they'd be labeled as climate heretics, and surely these are people who want the world to burn.
00:00:38.060Well, Germany just quietly and pretty sheepishly announced their returning-to-coal-fired electricity generation.
00:00:45.300Coal is arguably the most emissions-incentive form of electricity generation of them all.
00:00:50.600When the only alternative, though, is to bankrupt your nation while citizens freeze in the dark, coal suddenly doesn't look so bad anymore.
00:00:57.120Now, this hasn't stopped German Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel from committing an astounding act of hypocrisy
00:01:04.600as he arrived in Canada after having shipped an entire race car here along with his crew,
00:01:09.220only to wear a shirt criticizing Canadian oil production.
00:01:12.940Climate change cultists, like him, live in a world of denial.
00:01:16.340Vettel was just one of the most visible and hypocritical of those examples.
00:01:19.480The world is dependent upon fossil fuels, and they're going to remain so for many decades to come,
00:01:24.960no matter how loudly green activists scream or how much governments pump into unrealistic renewable energy projects.
00:01:32.260Germany can't blame Russia, the Russia-Ukraine war for their woes, by the way.
00:01:36.020Their energy crisis was coming to a peak months before that broke out.
00:01:39.540It shut down too many forms of energy generation, and renewable sources couldn't keep up with the demand.
00:01:44.300Simple as that. Ideology is dandy, but reality will trump it every time.
00:01:49.720Germany wasn't alone. The U.K. had been hitting energy shortages,
00:01:52.740and in California there have been brownouts in power provision for years,
00:01:56.100despite them being awash with oil and gas.
00:01:59.620Now, Canada's been trying to move down the same path.
00:02:01.720We've shut down and regulated countless energy projects to death.
00:02:05.160New oil and gas infrastructure projects are impossible to complete,
00:02:09.020even if they manage to somehow get approved.
00:02:11.400We indulge in endless delays caused by extreme environmentalists,
00:02:15.200as we've been watching with the CGL line in B.C.
00:02:18.160Speaking of the most ethical, clean-burning natural gas on Earth, by the way,
00:02:21.460Canada has deposits of it that could last centuries.
00:02:24.140The world's screaming for it, yet we won't let ourselves produce it.
00:02:27.280Quebec has shut down a pending LNG terminal that was slated for export,
00:02:31.980and has banned development of gas fields in their province.
00:02:34.680Canada's Arctic has huge natural gas deposits,
00:02:37.120and thousands of capped wells just waiting to come into production.
00:02:40.580We regulated the McKenzie Valley pipeline to death, though,