The United States has joined twelve other nations from around the world in an agreement to crack down on the agriculture industry to fight “global warming.”
International governments have agreed to sign a pact pledging to target food production by shutting down farms to reduce “methane emissions.”
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It must not be forgotten that these people are less concerned with producing energy in ways that will allow us to maintain our standards of living and make economic progress than with being ‘anti-capitalist.’
The ‘Net Zero’ slogan is on the lips of politicians of all shades, uttered by royalty and rock-stars alike, and, of course, by those execrable people who padlock themselves to railings and glue themselves to public highways in the name of Just Stop Oil. Net Zero, referring to the reduction of carbon emissions, has been sold to us as an achievable aim and one that we must achieve by around 2050. What few at the receiving end of this slogan know—and few on whom most of the burden of achieving Net Zero will fall—is how little thought was applied between the invention and subsequent imposition of the Net Zero policy. Therefore, nobody has a clue how it is going to be achieved.
“Net zero” is a popular talking point among many politicians and members of the commentariat. It refers to the idea of eliminating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to the production and use of fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and thermal coal) by 2050 or sooner. Many believe this is necessary to stem the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere that’s been occurring since the late 1800s.
Creating “good” jobs in Canada, improving its competitiveness, and now fostering the green transition and making the country’s supply chain more resilient are typical excuses that roll off the tongues of politicians when defending subsidies to hand-picked industries.
In the 2023 budget, the federal government provided $20-billion to preferred sectors and technologies and $14-billion (and counting) afterward to Volkswagen. The government later did a similar deal with Stellantis.
Everything Trudeau touches turns to shit.
COBALT is essential to modern technology. All sorts of electronic devices rely on it, along with other elements such as lithium. Solar panels and electric vehicles (EVs) wouldn’t function without them. While the environmental degradation associated with both lithium and cobalt extraction is well established, the issues around cobalt are even more poignant because of the manner in which it is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Forget “energy transition” and “just transition” to describe the transformation of our energy systems. Call it the “boondoggle transition” because that’s what it is turning into.
The $30 billion to be paid by the federal and Ontario governments to just two electric-vehicle battery companies — Volkswagen and Stellantis-LG Energy Solution — is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s expected that together the two projects will “create” 5,500 jobs (though most of the workers likely will come from other jobs) at an eye-popping ten-year cost of $5.5 million per worker. Even if you spread the earnings over 10 years, that’s $550,000 a year, nine times the average Canadian’s annual earnings of $61,000.
Canada’s environment minister hopes the next international climate summit will commit to phasing out unabated fossil fuels — oil and gas projects that don’t rely on technology to capture their emissions.
Steven Guilbeault outlined his expectations for the next COP28 while meeting with fellow international ministers from Europe, Mexico, India, Japan, China and other countries.
One of those expectations is the eventual elimination of fossil fuel projects that lack a mechanism to prevent carbon emissions from escaping into the atmosphere. Carbon capture, yet to be proven at scale, has been proposed as a way for the oil and gas industry to continue production without changing the planet’s climate.
Soon after a World Economic Forum partner was caught calling for an “end” to private car ownership, a climate expert is warning that the push to cancel gas-powered cars is just a ploy to end private transport. The climate crisis is a hoax, but it’s such a darn useful hoax for authoritarian globalists.
A renowned Nobel Prize-winning scientist has spoken out to warn the public that the “climate crisis” narrative being pushed by the global elite and their allies in the corporate media is a hoax.
Dr. John Clauser, the co-winner of the 2022 Nobel Physics prize and one the world’s leading authorities on quantum mechanics, blasted “climate emergency” claims as a “dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.”
Regular readers will recall that from time to time I inveigh in this space against the uncompetitive economic performance of this country as we slip steadily down the list of the world’s most prosperous per capita incomes and we suffer every year from negative capital flows: more Canadian capital invested outside Canada than Canada attracts from foreigners. The present federal government seems to wish to discourage our primary industry sector, that is all natural resources, though particularly the oil and gas industries. What the world envies about and most needs from Canada is that it is a treasure house of almost all forms of energy, forest products, base and precious metals and non-tropical agriculture. Pierre Trudeau was periodically mesmerized by the anti-economic growth pieties of the Club of Rome, and astonishingly for a man of his high intelligence, did not grasp the importance and desirability of economic growth until its absence endangered his own political incumbency.
When it comes to fart jokes, I admit I have the sense of humor of an 8-year-old boy. I can’t help it. It probably has something to do with growing up in a neighborhood full of boys and raising two of my own. Fart jokes never disappoint, which is why I wanted to bring this anecdote to your attention about a fancy press dinner on New York’s Upper East Side with Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Canada will contribute $450 million to the United Nations’ main fund to help developing countries cope with climate change, the country’s climate minister said on Wednesday.
The pledge comes as countries prepare for this year’s UN COP28 climate negotiations. Questions around finance are already looming over the talks on how to cut CO2 emissions, which poorer nations say they cannot do without more support to cope with spiralling costs from climate change-fuelled disasters.
People can’t afford a roof over their head but what’s a few hundred million when you can virtue signal.
I can’t help but feel that Guilbeault and his fellow grifters slosh our money around to their friends to buy a cushy job for themselves once they leave office.
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OTTAWA—Federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson cast doubt on hopes for a mining bonanza in Ontario’s “Ring of Fire,” saying there are better projects that can be developed easier in areas closer to existing infrastructure.
It’s the latest sign the Trudeau government isn’t yet convinced the region in the province’s vast, environmentally sensitive northern peatlands is the best place for new mining, even as it tries to make Canada an international powerhouse in critical minerals needed to power the global shift to a greener, low-carbon economy.
Translated that means projects in Quebec will have first crack at the slush fund.
"Stepping up to build the Centre of Excellence for Climate Security."
Climate Security …what the fuck does that even mean?
Whatever he's planning, WE will be paying for itpic.twitter.com/92miaO8P7p— Have We All Gone Mad? (@HaveWeAllGoneM1) July 11, 2023
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You may have heard that the Canadian and Ontario governments are spending up to $15 billion to ensure Chrysler-maker Stellantis builds an electric battery plant in Windsor. From this news, it might be reasonable to conclude that Stellantis is in the business of making batteries, but that would be incorrect. It is quite clear that Stellantis is, instead, in the business of securing government subsidies.
Paris city hall is to impose higher parking fees on owners of SUVs in its battle to reduce pollution in the capital.
Details of the charges have not been announced but the size, weight of the vehicle and its motor will be taken into consideration.
Electric vehicles and those with large families requiring a bigger car are expected to escape the increased fees that will come into effect on 1 January 2024.
Smaller cars will reduce the carbon footprint of the nightly Car-B-Q’s
