Why Trudeau’s ‘blue hydrogen’ dream is not really green

While world leaders convene in Sharm el-Sheikh for the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, Canadian politicians are hard at work selling dreams of clean green energy to locals and foreigners alike. Though the recent green energy export agreement signed between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was welcome news in Ottawa as much as Berlin, Canadian taxpayers should be mindful of politicians’ proclivity to overpromise and underdeliver. When it comes to promises of an energy transition powered by Canadian hydrogen, no amount of skepticism is too little.Hydrogen boosters in Canada are emphatic the resource could help the nation become the world’s primary supplier of clean green energy. With obviously ample water and renewable energy resources, it isn’t hard to sell the idea to Canadians, some of whom are already under the misguided…

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