Talks between the German delegation and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are scheduled for Tuesday.
German Chancellor Scholz and Vice-Chancellor Habek arrived in Canada on a three-day visit accompanied by a business delegation to negotiate expanding cooperation in the procurement and supply of raw materials and energy as an alternative to the Russians.
Canada “has the same rich mineral deposits as Russia – with the difference that it is a reliable democracy,” Scholz said upon his arrival in Montreal.
According to the chancellor, he intends to open new areas of cooperation in Canada, in particular, in the field of creating hydrogen energy.
In this regard, Germany’s Minister of Economy, Vice-Chancellor Robert Habek, along with Scholz in Canada, rejected reports that Germany cannot find the amount of liquefied gas it needs on the world market to replace gas supplies from Russia. The problem for Germany is the lack of the necessary infrastructure for LNG, Habek said. Therefore, terminals for receiving liquefied gas are being built on the German coast, while the gas itself has been sold in sufficient quantities, added the German minister.
At the same time, he acknowledged that the coming winter, despite full gas storage facilities, will be “very critical”, pointing to the threat of further cuts in Russian gas supplies amid the ongoing conflict on Gazprom and Russia’s war against Ukraine. Therefore, efforts should be made to reduce gas consumption by 20%, urged the minister.
Negotiations between the German delegation and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are scheduled for August 23. During the visit, it is planned to sign agreements on close cooperation in the production and transportation of hydrogen, the supply of liquefied natural gas in Germany, the extraction of minerals and metals in Canada, in particular nickel, cobalt, lithium and graphite, is necessary. for the production of batteries and batteries.
Earlier, Scholz praised Trudeau for giving Gazprom a turbine for the SP-1. This decision removed from Russia an excuse to explain the decrease in gas supplies by technical reasons, to blame the sanctions for it, explained the German Chancellor.
Source: Deutsche Welle Russian Service
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