A “true energy and minerals alliance” between the United States and Canada could feature a strategic minerals reserve that ensures competitive pricing for critical minerals, in a combined effort to free the global market from China’s manipulative domination, Canada’s chief energy official said Tuesday.
“Rather than going down a path that will inevitably be lose-lose, I am suggesting something entirely different,” Canadian Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson said during a Feb. 4 discussion at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center in Washington.
“Such an alliance would enable United States and Canada to achieve our shared vision for affordable energy bills for families, strong and secure economies, and North America as the world’s dominant energy supplier,” he said….