F1 driver says 'what happens in Alberta is a crime,' feels responsibility to speak about climate change | CBC News LoadedF1 driver says 'what happens in Alberta is a crime,' feels responsibility to speak about climate change
Sebastian Vettel takes aim at Alberta's oilsands operations as province's energy minister accuses him of "hypocrisy."Sebastian Vettel takes aim at Alberta's oilsands operations, as province's energy minister charges 'hypocrisy'
Lol oxymoron
Guy is a hypocrite. One of his sponsors is a giant oil company
He shouldn't have been allowed to race!
And his career is racing cars with huge carbon footprints for entertainment purposes...
Ban him from racing in Canada.
Most of us drive gas vehicles out of necessity, he drives them for money and fame. Every inch of his car required oil, gas and coal to be made and maintained. A well done is much better than a well said.
... and this comes from a guy that is burning so much fuel and rubber, polluting environment and wasting millions of dollars for living
isn't there an electric car version of F1? maybe he can race in that and wear an anti mining T shirt. fkwhit
And Germany has to rely on fossil fuel now from Russia ..... he needs to keep his opinion out of our country, as a 'visitor' for a sporting event
F1 driver needs to go home and butt out
Hypocrite
Performative crap. Especially from a guy sponsored by Saudi oil. Rich and famous Monaco-living preaching to the real world. Where does he moor his yacht?
Doesn’t he remind you of the NDP and theJagmeetSingh Spewing out misinformation when they are really the cause of the problems.
This is not news. Be better CBC. Oh, CBC did not cover the Euro legislators who trashed Trudeau, instead CBC ran hitpieces on them.
He didn’t do very well so whatever
What does his car run on and what is the carbon footprint of F1 or all of car racing in general. Let’s factor in all their travel and shipping cars all over the world.
The entire F1 circuit is a crime. If everyone in the world gets an equal portion of pollution credits, F1 folks would have no leg to stand on period. Especially aramco F1 folks. Which Mr Vettel’s team endorses.
While being sponsered by a state owned oil company that happens to be a anti gay dictatorship.
OK. So charter a jet for your RACE cars and crew to fly from one Continent to other is OK?.
ElizabethMay Seems like it’d be more effective if he stopped driving… then I’d believe he was actually behind the message. Let’s be honest, car racing is really a waste of gas 🤷♀️
This from a guy who burns fuel for a living
While being a hippocrate, as do many have pointed out, he makes a good point about the tar sands.
ElizabethMay Says the man who makes millions in the most polluting sport in human history. You know why your message constantly fails ElizabethMay? Because you only know how to blame people, not how to sell it.
lmfao,...oh wait..lmfao...i cant stop laughing at the hypocrisy
Pretty sure Aramco is worse
Laughable! Suppose he criticized the Saudi oil co that sponsors him, he might be, I don't know, dismembered?!?
astonmartin and aramco should really reconsider his sponsorship
Says the asshole burning thousands of liters of high octane race fuel for a living. Before getting on a jet and doing the same. While his race team burn thousands more to move his race cars in semi trucks around the globe.
Irony, where does he get his fuel
Just drive sab, pedals and steer outaa the BS your packing.
I am so tired of these idiotic hypocrites. Doesn’t he spend his life driving in circles for no good reason? Eliminate the sport if you’re worried about the climate. Then I’ll listen.
F1 cars are electric now And all the vehicles he had to use to ship him AND his team here plus equipment... and thats just his team... so they are all EV now Hey bud... sit in your car, drive the track, entertain the masses and shut up... you hypocrite
Finally someone with some sense. It’s about time!! The sooner greedy Albertans realize that their planet-killing party is over and switch to a sustainable GREEN economy the better for everyone LeaveItInTheGround TarSands
Someone should tell sebestianvettel he's the one committing the crime driving a race around a track burning rubber,oil an fuel wrecking cars made by products from oil and gas doesn't do anything essential for society and the so called ClimateCrisis his profession is useless
Wearing a mask during an interview tells you everything you need to know 🧐
And go back home and fix your own country
What would you choose? And why? I choose a pipeline. For clean, efficient and effective energy
I respect Seb and his empowering message. Although the power of his voice and how effective it could be should be more useful in Germany where they shutdown Nuclear Power Plants that is clean energy for the heavy polluting Coal Power Stations. They strip mine German towns for it.
Why does cover this garbage, unless they are paid from JustinTrudeau slush fund for lying msm in Canada!🙄
His country, Germany, mines, exports and burns coal for electricity. And he drives Formula 1! Hypocrites = Sebastian Vettel
He is Sponsored by Saudi Aramco, the largest O&G company in the world, and one owned by a regime that sanctions murders. He has never taken the time to learn about the oil sands technology and green initiatives. We should pay attention to him, his moral ground is very high.
Who ever set up the interview with him is the main instigator. He is just a paid puppet who has no clue what is he talking about. Did he qualify for the race. Not.
Big hypocrite
stick to the racing
I love when useless celebrities who participate in the most wasteful activities become beacons of enlightenment about climate change. Just drive your little car and shut up about things you don’t know. And tell Dicaprio too. celebritiespretendingtoknowthings
He’s not wrong, but given his occupation and Saudi sponsors, he’s not a credible critic. Just weird.
Indeed. The same shirt has 'sponsored by ARAMCO' printed all over it too. What is ARAMCO CBC Do you even care to know Or do you just wanna spread some ignorant hate like you always do...
Indeed. The same shirt has 'sponsored by ARAMCO' printed all over it too. What is ARAMCO CBC Do you even care to know Or do you just wanna spread some ignorant hate hate like you always do...
Vetted wouldn't be where he is if it wasn't for well you know
It’s just the Saudis paying for a paid protestor while they line the pockets of Eastern politicians. That’s why no Energy East pipeline that would benefit all Canadians.
Just another corporate shill, Liberal hypocrisy at its finest.
He obviously needs publicity cause NOBODY give a crap about him. Poor guy!!!
Whatever… Germany buys communist energy from Russia
Same guy sponsored by Saudi Arabia oil company correct?
Just goes to show you the hypocrisy of these climate nut jobs
Hypocrite who uses fossil fuels
Oil sand extraction is among the most destructive energy intensive ways to extract oil. It should be illegal. There's a reason why it's not even profitable until fuel prices start hitting record levels. The only topic worth discussing is what the plans are to shift away from O&G
You’re driving a gas powered vehicle and trashing the industry that literally powers your career 🙄🙄 Quit driving if you really wanna make a statement, until then don’t you dare try to destroy my province 😡🤬😡🤬
Environmentalist race car driver - that in itself is ridiculous.
Those hypocrites.
He jet flies around the world constantly, drives f1, might be time to put some walk behind the talk.
But Russia’s oil and gas is okay!🙄
Lead by example Vettel… denounce Saudi Aramco and stop driving a petroleum powered car.
Put your helmet on and race your s it car and leave.
Ppl act like him driving a car proves him wrong 😂😂😂 such basic level nonsense
Mining the tar sands is not the problem. Not enforcing cleanup and other good environmental practices is the problem. Giving a pass to big oil companies is the problem.
Doesn't he shill for Saudi Oil?
sebvettelnews you should take a long hard look at the vehicle you drive and the plane you fly around the world in and your sponsor. Your hypocrisy is unbelievable you want to put hard working Canadians out of work, the oil sands are a clean and ethical source of oil.
Is his race car electric? Oh right, they don’t have those. Gimme a break.
epais de vettel avec son char qui fait de la pollution plus que 3 van en meme temps et viens faire son ptit green qui lache la formule 1 et qui vas aider dans les resto...
Whether we like it or not, greener energy sources are coming online, and that trend will continue. Canada would be wise to increase efforts to find more rare earth metals for batteries, panels and turbines.
HYPOCRITE HYPOCRITE HYPOCRITE!!!
What? This clown is sponsored by Aramco. I know he missed the Saudi Grand Prix this year, but I wonder if he would’ve worn a shirt like that there.
let's go electric...
When Seb stops racing a gas powered car and his team stops flying around the world to races in giant fossil fuel burning aircraft and trucks then he can bitch about Canada. But I still wouldn't listen.
Our state broadcaster amplifying Saudi oil interests voices against our domestic production for them
What a joke
Over his career he has amassed a carbon footprint orders of magnitude larger than the average Canadian (already very large compared to others globally). He does this while wearing a shirt bearing the aramco logo. What is the german for hypocrite?
Go home and mind your business Pal.
Wonder who sponsored that shirt?
Just drive buddy
I’m guessing his car is powered by H2O…
He’s either a simpleton or bought by the Saudis (his main sponsor). I’m not sure which is worse.
Make tar sands more efficient. Why are we burning oil to extract and refine oil. Use some solar towers and fission electricity. Its worth it to prevent boats full of oil from crossing oceans all the time. Not to mention dining Saudi Arabia needs to be limited.
The epitome definition of Wokeness
So you drive for F1 and you speak about climate change in Alberta!! Keep your thoughts for your self
joe_warmington Who cares what Seb says! He couldn’t make it out of Q1 even… maybe with some Canadian fuel he would have performed better 😂 you were always Kimis bitch Seb.
He is from the small county of Germany who started WW1 and WW2. I believe they started paying Russia rupls for there oil again. He can gfhs 🇨🇦 🍁
Big scams they shilling. We’ll expose them.
Well, mission accomplished. You got their attention.
joe_warmington BSbflsbrains. Bait message-n-switch. It's not about hypocrisy. It's about competition. His shirt is saying buy Saudi oil instead of Canadian. Why is this so difficult? It's market mental intercourse. Plain as the ass on a goat!
joe_warmington BSbflsbrains. Bait-n-switch. It's not about hypocrisy. It's about competition. His shirt is saying buy Saudi oil instead of Canadian. Why is this so difficult. It's mental intercourse.
Is the crime the Keystone shutdown and all the completely avoidable pollution being put out for this, our alternative future?
Thank you for bringing attention to Canada's climate failures. The tarsands are the most environmentally destructive oil on earth.
Wait…so he flew here on a jet with his crew…drove up all their cars, engines & gear using diesel…and each race he burns more gas than any normal person in a year…and HE’S talking about climate crimes 🤡🤡😂😂
Tell him to stick to driving cars , it’s a good job for the uneducated 🤔
The guy who’s made millions driving gas fueled cars wants to come to a foreign country and wag his finger? This, from a guy sponsored by Saudi Arabia? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Truly sad and ignorant of a ICE driven race car driver with zero understanding of science! This is what happens when your school days are spent on racetracks and you become a tool for propaganda
so this should be fun to watch, who is pushing his car around the track? better yet all what they have there runs on gas or diesel look at all the smog from these events, just don't have them and go work at Burger King and live in the woods unconnected from the rest of us
Send this guy home
🎶isn’t it ironic, don’t ya think
Tar sands extraction emits up to 3 times more global warming pollution than does producing the same quantity of conventional crude. It also depletes and pollutes freshwater resources and creates giant ponds of toxic waste.
The hypocrite flew to Canada on a plane. Going to drive a fuel driven car and change his tires 3-4 times during a single race. sponsored by Saudi Aramco government owned petroleum co. Saudi Arabia faced unprecedented international criticism in 2019 for its human rights record
And how did he get here walk ? And what’s his job ? What an oxymoron !!!
Half-ass driver with half-ass brain.
He can leave
He also has a Saudi Aramco oil company logo on his helmet. More sports washing by the Saudi government.
Dude is a shill for Saudi Oil....the direct competition of the tarsands. That's the motivation here....not saving the planet.
He should shut up and race! Thats what he's paid to do..
And we care why? Oh yeah we don’t.
Does he drive a EV ?
Fucking gouff
One person's point of view
IDIOT
Saudi-sponsored millionaire attempts to shame Canada for having only 8,953 trees/person and extracting ethical oil meanwhile Saudi's version of pridemonth is bragging about sportswashing and how many trees/person? carbonnegative
THATS CALLED A REAL PROTEST. NOT PHYSICALLY HARMING ANYONE. OR DEFACING PROPERTY. ALLOWING PEOPLE TO GO ABOUT THEIR LIFE. JUST BRING AWARENESS
The guy is just another uninformed hypocrite!
The irony passes by more swiftly in front of his eyes than his car does in front of the spectators.
Pretty sure Germany is one of Europe’s biggest coal user.
He’s forced to come to Canada once a year because of his job, I doubt he really cares if he offends Albertans
There’s the definition of a hypocrite
People are attacking him personally, but more likely than not he's just being paid by his sponsors to be anti-tar sands.
Another fukn Greta, just in time !!!
He is sponsored by Aramco, an oil company owned by a dictatorship
I'm sure MBS of Saudi Arabia walks around with a t-shirt that says 'Women's Rights!'
What hypocrisy. He burns fuel for entertainment
What a goof.
AstonMartinF1 hypocrite
Let's understand. A formula 1 driver ecologist... uhmm
Thought he is sponsored by Saudi oil ?🤔
“This message brought to you by Saudi Aramco”
All these comments dumping in him because he is a race car driver calling him a hypocrite are so ridiculous. I worked for an automotive supplier and hate cars and what they do to the environment but that lesson my feelings in regards to the issues
OMG - An accurate CBC story without maligning conservatives. A first for me.
Typical of left thinking elitists. The irony is lost on all of them.
Who cares what he says
What does his car run on?
Who cares what a car driver thinks. Stupid CBC story. CBC is ridiculous though.
Was he wearing his Aramco t shirt? The Saudi oil company that sponsors him and who we have to buy oil from because Trudeau blocks pipelines?
Kick him out of the country, stop funding the Formula 1 race with tax payer money.
I think what he is saying is not completely wrong…but when ur a f1 driver for a team that owned by oil tycoons it’s strange to be taking this stance
No tar in them sands.
Insane.
Says guy who earns a living burning said fossil fuels?
I do like how the shirt has triggered so many!
Aston Martin just shit their brand
After 125 years of Canada feeling the love, they're getting chided by foreign politicians, race car drivers and even Ohio got in on the action. Nothing like trampling all over people to draw attention, eh?
And yet you’re a race car driver emitting fuel emissions!
joe_warmington What a load of bull crap !
He should be deported, using our oil for his car and barking against our country, but no we have moren Trudeau prime minister
Canada calls for Vettel removal from F1
only kind of publicity he gets these days
joe_warmington I don’t want him hurt but here’s hoping for a dnf.
His mask wearing says it all😆
This guy and his F1 gas guzzlers are flown in jets around the world for years + the crews. How much carbon are we talking yearly for just Vettel? 100,000 gallons (at least)of kerosene into the atmosphere? Let’s include blaming Germany for covering the planet in gas guzzlers too?
Liberal sponsored?
I trust this guys climate position as much as JustinTrudeau and cathmckenna Such hypocrisy. If he cared so much he would stop racing just like if Justin cared so much he would not have circumnavigated the globe three times this year in his taxpayer funded jet.
FuckVettel
joe_warmington 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡
Coming from someone who gets about 1/4 mile per gallon of gas!
I didn't know Aston Martin had electric cars in the Grand Prix
Shut your mouth and drive your excuse of a car
Kick him out!
That is total hypocrisy your F1 machine is getting 4 miles to the gallon …that is a total waste of fossil fuel and you are complaining about Tar Sands you’re in the wrong sport…Sebastian..
While he burns copious amounts of fossil fuels, and a carbon footprint 10x that of RMB!🤣🤣🤣🤣
I take it his race car isn't solar powered?
This is ridiculous sponsored by Saudi aramco (logo on his helmet right next to his message). Germany 🇩🇪 today get 72% of its electricity from lignite. Canada on the other is world leader on source of our electricity with more than 90% coming from clean sources.
Anyone who says “tar sands” knows absolutely nothing about the industry
A Saudi oil company is his sponsor. Ffs talk about backwards thinking.
As this guy drives a petroleum powered car around a track in circles making millions. Please make the hypocrisy stop.
So who are his sponsors? Then come back to me saying he's not a hypocrite.
Ass Hole
This kind of action lead to addiction to Russian oil. Putin sends regards. Great job....shhh.
His mask says it all.
Hypocrite
There is no wars in Canada because of it... But the rest of the world is having conflicts about it🤔
He drives a gas powered car in circles, clearly he can't think straight anymore.
This is like the automobile version of
Flew in on a private jet for his jet fuel burning car race, leaving his stable of rediculously high fuel burning personal Ferrari's in the care of his personal mechanics.
He literally guzzles gas for a living
Doesn’t he drive for Aramco? Doesn’t Saudi Arabia beat women in the street and behead convicts in the public square?
Kind of funny considering he makes his exorbitant living burning fossil fuels
Another joke of an article from the CBC about an idiot who literally drives in a circle burning fuel but complains about the climate
Gag! Is he stupid? He is making a huge mistake! Haven’t seen bumper cars in along time, he’s been trying to make a career in Fossil fuel burning Formula 1!
Guy gets millions of dollars from an oil company to burn excessive amounts of carbon driving in circles, and then hops on a jet to do the same thing the very next weekend on the other side of the planet, and has the gall to suggest we’re the problem? Ok bro.
He drives a land jet sponsored by the Saudi state oil company.
Sebastian, my man. Do want a job or not?
You want to know what a real crime is? Aramco funding Saudi genocide of civilians including children in Yemen. Hypocrite.
Someone try sell him a bridge, good chance he’ll buy it
Why are you reporting on a German driver as though his opinion about anything other than driving is important?
'When I get out of the car, of course I'm thinking as well 'Is this something that we should do, travel the world, wasting resources?'' And if he quits he'll just be replaced so it's good he's using his platform. If Saudi Aramco fires him, that censorship would mean even more.
Oh , the hypocrisy. Must be a liberal!!!
He supports homosexuals being killed over trees being cut down. That's your headline
And he drives a race car 🏎 🏁 for a living. 🙄
Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t northern Alberta where the tar sands are more grass covered and not a lot of trees
Vettle's lack of self-awareness belies the coddled world these multimillionaire athletes inhabit. His political opinions should carry no more weight than his chauffeur's.
I didn't knows Aston Martin ran electric F1 vehicles.
Gotta do something to make the headlines when you start p17.
Wait. His race car uses what for fuel in a sport widely considered an exercise in wasteful opulence?
Maybe his next race car will be a Tesla?…….
Is there a competition going on for cbc to report on every t shirt that address with their agenda?
His Aston Martin is powered by social justice.
Who or what is a Sebastian Vettel and tell me why his stupid opinion matters to me?
He is not wrong. Canadian mining companies have been looting African continent and South America for years. And there were not a peep from you. FakeNewsCBC
Is he racing in an electric car? Are the wheels made out of bamboo? Sorry dude, your words don’t mean much
Who
Lost all respect for this 🤡. What a complete fool!! He thinks he has a platform when they are burning up the fuel all over the world on a also ran team too boot!! Go forth and multiply!!!
How about take your muzzle off sheep
The irony is quite funny
Says the guy who is a race car driver for a living and flies around the world on private planes.
Erm.. given that he drives a car that runs on kerosene, I’m not sure he’s in a position to comment.
Talk about hypocrisy! A race car driver complaining about the oil industry? Absolutely fuc$king laughable.
oil sands are an embarrassment
He’s sponsored by a Saudi oil company 🤔