Canada to increase oil, gas exports amid push to displace Russia

Canada says move comes after European allies said they ‘need help’ as they ease dependence on Russian energy supplies. Canada plans to increase oil and gas exports this year by up to 300,000 barrels per day, the country’s natural resources minister has said, as nations seek to wean themselves off Russian energy supplies amid the war in Ukraine. Canada is uniquely positioned to help with both.” Russia provides a large portion of Europe’s energy supplies, but since it launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine late last month, European leaders have said they plan to reduce their dependence on oil and natural gas from Moscow. “So if anything,” Gleick added, “ a far better opportunity to push non-fossil fuels overall, rather than trying to increase our reliance on just somebody else’s fossil fuels.” That was echoed by the Canadian environment minister, Steven Guilbeault, who told Canada’s National Observer online newspaper this month that “the solution to global energy problems is not to increase our dependency on fossil fuels” – but rather to reduce oil and gas dependence “regardless of where it’s coming from”. “The only real solution to oil-fuelled aggression against people and the climate is to accelerate the transition off fossil fuels by investing in renewable energy and efficiency,” said Greenpeace Canada’s senior energy strategist Keith Stewart.