{"id":1524980,"date":"2022-06-21T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1524980"},"modified":"2022-06-21T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:04:10","slug":"heaping-hypocrisy-4-time-world-champion-race-driver-slammed-for-calling-canadas-oil-gas-mining-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heaping-hypocrisy-4-time-world-champion-race-driver-slammed-for-calling-canadas-oil-gas-mining-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Heaping Hypocrisy\u2019: 4-Time World Champion Race Driver Slammed For Calling Canada\u2019s Oil, Gas Mining A \u2018Crime\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheaping-hypocrisy-4-time-world-champion-race-driver-slammed-for-calling-canadas-oil-gas-mining-a-crime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1524980&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A four-time World Drivers\u2019 Championship winner on the Formula One circuit \u2014 who drives cars that voraciously consume gas and oil as he jets from race to race \u2014 was slammed after he wore a T-shirt at the Canadian Grand Prix condemning Canadian oil sands mining.<\/p>\n<p>34-year-old German racer S\u00e9bastien Vettel\u2019s t-shirt read \u201cStop Mining Tar Sands\u201d with a picture of a pipeline, and added \u201cCanada\u2019s Climate Crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">S\u00e9bastien Vettel, F1 Driver being based and awesome for the Canadian Grand Prix. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hJXb2MpmZC\">pic.twitter.com\/hJXb2MpmZC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian B (@CanadianCentury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadianCentury\/status\/1537472303369437184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Vettel is just a man who loves to ride around at astonishing speeds in multimillion-dollar machines, which chug those dear old fossil fuels by the whale-load, in front of thousands of people who drive to his venues just to watch him,\u201d Rex Murphy wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/rex-murphy-hypocrisy-your-name-is-sebastian-vettel\">The National Post.<\/a> \u201cAnd he has illustrious associations, being sponsored by Aston Martin, with financing from Saudi Aramco, the world\u2019s largest oil producer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, and it is a very good \u2018but,\u2019 when he has reached his next Grand Prix destination and the time comes to go to the racetrack, he travels from the hotel by bicycle!\u201d Murphy pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tommy_Slick\/status\/1537885557719638016\">said during a press conference<\/a>, \u201cWhat happens in Alberta is a crime because you chop down a lot of trees and you basically destroy the place just to extract oil and the manner of doing it with the tar sands mining, oil sands mining is horrible for nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Energy Centre, an Alberta provincial corporation mandated to promote Alberta\u2019s energy industry, fired back.<\/p>\n<p><em>@F1 driver Sebastian Vettel showcased his ignorance about Alberta\u2019s #oilsands industry ahead of this weekend\u2019s Montreal Grand Prix, calling the development \u201ccriminal.\u201d Let\u2019s discuss the heaping hypocrisy and open Vettel\u2019s eyes to Canada\u2019s achievements here: Formula One racing, a sport that relies on fossil fuels for pure entertainment, has admitted to its carbon footprint and indicated steps to reach net zero, bravo. That doesn\u2019t change that fact that its current carbon emissions amount to 256,000 tonnes CO2 per season.<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Formula One racing, a sport that relies on fossil fuels for pure entertainment, has admitted to its carbon footprint and indicated steps to reach net zero, bravo. That doesn\u2019t change that fact that its current carbon emissions amount to 256,000 tonnes CO2 per season.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadian Energy Centre (@CDNEnergyCentre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDNEnergyCentre\/status\/1537879194314711049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada\u2019s largest oil sands producers are addressing climate change by working together on an ambitious, actionable plan to reduce GHG emissions from oil sands production with the ultimate goal of net zero emissions,\u201d CDN continued, \u201cSince 2000, CCS projects in Canada, some tied to the oil sands, have safely stored more than 44 million tonnes of CO2, or the equivalent of taking more than 9.4 million cars off the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Since 2000, CCS projects in Canada, some tied to the oil sands, have safely stored more than 44 million tonnes of CO2, or the equivalent of taking more than 9.4 million cars off the road. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4GQmOYDl9X\">https:\/\/t.co\/4GQmOYDl9X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadian Energy Centre (@CDNEnergyCentre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDNEnergyCentre\/status\/1537879198404059136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of decreasing its carbon footprint, oil sands #emissionsintensity decreased 27% since 2013, compared to 13% for other global producers. Total oil sands emissions \u2013 not just emissions\/bbl \u2013 are expected to start going down in the next five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In terms of decreasing its carbon footprint, oil sands <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/emissionsintensity?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#emissionsintensity<\/a> decreased 27% since 2013, compared to 13% for other global producers. Total oil sands emissions \u2013 not just emissions\/bbl \u2013 are expected to start going down in the next five years. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6gG99BblvW\">https:\/\/t.co\/6gG99BblvW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadian Energy Centre (@CDNEnergyCentre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDNEnergyCentre\/status\/1537879208948420608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada\u2019s oil sands sector is often characterized as having a massive physical footprint on the environment, but as of 2018, energy development encompassed less than 1% of Alberta. #oilsands mining companies alone doubled the land reclaimed since 2009, reaching over 8,000 hectares in 2019. Oil sands producers have also collectively planted more than 25 million trees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/oilsands?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#oilsands<\/a> mining companies alone doubled the land reclaimed since 2009, reaching over 8,000 hectares in 2019. Oil sands producers have also collectively planted more than 25 million trees. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GVJuzDNrj1\">https:\/\/t.co\/GVJuzDNrj1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadian Energy Centre (@CDNEnergyCentre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDNEnergyCentre\/status\/1537879213159550976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada\u2019s industry\u2019s strong environmental track record is thanks to large investments in technology &#038; environmental protection. Oil and gas producers are Canada\u2019s largest spenders on energy cleantech, spending an average of $1B per year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is another instance of a celebrity with a net worth of $100M (who drives a sports car for a living) telling the 99% how foolish it is to rely on responsible sources of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is another instance of a celebrity with a net worth of $100M (who drives a sports car for a living) telling the 99% how foolish it is to rely on responsible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A four-time World Drivers\u2019 Championship winner on the Formula One circuit \u2014 who drives cars that voraciously consume gas and oil as he jets from race to race \u2014 was slammed after he wore a T-shirt at the Canadian Grand Prix condemning Canadian oil sands mining. 34-year-old German racer S\u00e9bastien Vettel\u2019s t-shirt read \u201cStop Mining &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1524982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}