The U.N.’s COP31 climate alarmism summit in Antalya, Turkey, is proving to be a fractious affair, as energy-producing nations insist on their right to sell the fossil fuel products that drive their economies. On Thursday, Venezuela became the latest nation to declare that it will not stop pumping oil.
\n\n“We reaffirm our sovereign right to strengthen our energy and oil industry as a driver of our national development,” Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, said after hearing the latest U.N. demand to phase out fossil fuels.
\n\n“We believe there is no inevitable contradiction between energy development and environmental protection, because a just transition does not shut down economies – it transforms them,” she argued.
\n\nRodriguez and her team actually used the COP31 conference as a venue to drum up more investment in Venezuela’s oil industry, including pitch meetings with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar.
\n\nBayraktar said he was excited to discuss “potential joint projects in the hydrocarbons sector, particularly oil and natural gas” with Venezuela — on the sidelines of an expensive international summit nominally dedicated to wiping out that entire sector.
\n\nBrazilian Environment Minister Joao Paulo Capobianco insisted there was no “contradiction”…
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