text: I don't know about other products, but LNG has a fairly obvious geography problem. Most of Canada's natural gas production comes from Alberta and BC. To get the gas to Europe, it has to be piped to the Pacific Ocean, liquefied, and loaded in tankers. those tankers are too big to fit through the Panama Canal, which means that they have to go south all the way to Cape Horn, and then north to a European terminal, a journey of over 20,000 km. When the LNG arrives in Europe, it has to be gasified and piped to the customer. Meanwhile, Russian gas only has to be piped the relatively short distance from the Russian gas fields to the customer. This gives Russian gas a huge advantage on shipping costs.
  
  The same applies to lumber. Georgia is a lot closer to Spain than BC is.