We can go two ways. Either we squander the lead, or we grow it.
Fortunately, very little in this strategy depends on American investment or American technology. For instance
"Shell’s Scotford Upgrader captured 77% of its carbon emissions in 2022 ..."
"ArcelorMittal Dofasco in Ontario plans to end the use of coal in its plants,..."
"inclusion of hydrogen in the Canada-EU High-Level Energy Dialogue, active since 2007, where Canada and the EU collaborate on mutual goals ..."
"the Canada-Japan Energy Policy Dialogue, active since 2019, which signed an updated Action Plan for 2023 to 2025 ..."
"the May 2023 Memorandum of Understanding with South Korea on cooperation in critical mineral supply chains, the clean energy tran..."
"the August 2022 Joint Declaration of Intent to establish a Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance, which seeks to create ...
"the 2021 Memorandum of Understanding between Canada and the Netherlands on cooperation in the field of hydrogen energy, w..."
"In the East, Atlantic Canada’s abundant and untapped wind resources and immediate proximity to Atlantic shipping routes will allow wind-to-hydrogen electrolysis projects to become reliable suppliers of clean hydrogen to Germany and other European markets. Germany has announced its intention to import up to 50-70 percent of its hydroge..."
Are all points that reflect a Canadian strategy to globalize our hydrogen policies.
Incidentally, recent developments and explorations on naturally-occurring free (unbound to other elements) hydrogen deposits, once thought impossible, now indicate that Canada's unique geology of natural rock formations could make it one of the world's largest sources of naturally-occurring free hydrogen. Enough to power the world for hundreds of years.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bakx-white-hydrogen-natural-mali-1.7094645
And Newfoundland-Labrador, with its abundance of renewable electrical generation, could make it a world center for hydrogen from electrolysis (it is now one of the leading world centers for current projects).
Let's not drop the ball on this one,, or let the Americans take it away from us like they did the Avro.
Makes absolutely no sense. It is like saying 'Milk will work in some recopies [that call for it] but it is unlikely to work in others [that do not use milk]." So let's stop all milk production.
You must be posting for an American audience. Americans fall for that Republi-logic.
What I mean is not to go all in, all our eggs in that basket like Toyota had for 10 years and ended up behind their competitors.
I'm not going to write it off, but IMO we don't have to invest into hydrogen with the same vigor we should be with electrification, renewables and storage.
All three of the sources you mentioned all lead to ammonia/hydrogen exports if we are to export our excess clean energy capacity. We can not send electricity to Europe, Japan, or Korea, but we can use our energy to produce ammonia and ship that. Or we send our electricity to those ungrateful Americans to squander.