The Teck-Glencore clash represents a contrast in strategies for confronting the energy transition.
“There’s this theoretical notion of the future and an energy transition,” said Bruce Lourie, president of the Ivey Foundation, a private charitable group dedicated to supporting Canada’s transition to a net-zero future. “Then there’s the present and in the present you can make a lot of money” from fossil fuels, he said.
Price has said this is necessary because the energy transition has changed the investment landscape. Teck used to receive a premium because it produced a diverse array of commodities, but “in recent years, the investor basis for base metals and steelmaking coal businesses have become increasingly divergent,” Price said on Feb. 23.
Par for the course for them blame everyone else for their own shortcomings. Teck is their own worst enemy.