I've often railed against Torstar Corporation's practice of piggybacking The New York Times International Weekly on its Sunday Star. I think we have enough competent journalists in Canada that we can do without imported propaganda.
And not only that, but there's way too much really stupid shit in the NYT. Today's story by Stanley Reed, titled "Germany Looks at New Type of Fuel," is a prime example. In a thinly veiled bit of Putin bashing, the article claims that Germany needs an alternative to its Russian natural gas supply.
Shipping natural gas in condensed form on supertankers is exponentially riskier and more expensive than shipping it via pipeline, and I'm sure there's not a great hue and cry among the German people to pay double for their heating fuel just to spite the Russians.
But wait! There's another potential bonanza associated with building a LNG terminal!
Tourism!
Reed quotes Niels Fenzl, a VP at would-be LNG supplier Uniper, to the effect that the LNG supertankers "are quite a sight."
No doubt! I hope the folks in Kitimat BC are ready for the hordes of visitors who will overrun their town once their LNG terminal is up and running!
Like I said; the dumbest thing you're likely to read today.
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