The concept of 15-minute cities is advancing in Canada, as is a backlash from those who regard it as a threat to freedom.
The framework, pioneered in 2015 at the Paris COP21 climate summit by the French-Colombian professor Carlos Moreno, calls for areas where a 15-minute bike ride or walk would connect residents to everything they would need. Urbanist Dan Luscher promotes the idea on 15minutecity.com but acknowledges its inherent curtailment of free travel and free markets.
… But the rapid rise in electric vehicle sales is about to bump into some very real limitations, say Jominy and other auto industry insiders.
Flavio Volpe, president of the APMA, points out that roughly a third of the Canadian population lives in multi-family buildings such as apartments or condo buildings, most of which don’t have dedicated charging stations. In downtown areas, even many single-family homes don’t have driveways, Volpe noted.
“You’re not going to be running a cable out to the street to charge your car,” said Volpe.
That kind of basic stumbling block makes Volpe wary of proposed regulations from the federal government which is aiming to have 20 per cent of all new vehicle sales be electric by 2026, and 100 per cent by 2035. The regulations also envision significant fines for auto companies for each non-electric vehicle sold below the target.
Why would Justin make policy on false infrastructure assumptions?
Because they can. You aren’t going to be driving anything.
That’s the goal.
Pretty strange when even the Star is pointing out the flaw in Junior’s Masterplan.
“Buy an electric car You’ll save money.”
During the worst of the gas spike, Biden administration cronies were telling the proles that they’d be saving money if they had bought $65,000 electric cars.
Firms are starting to wake up to the lunacy of Net Zero.
Economist Herbert Stein once said that ‘if something cannot go on forever, it will stop’. Today, there is growing evidence that ‘Stein’s law’ is coming for the renewables industry, particularly for wind and solar power.
After investing billions of dollars into the green-energy transition, many of the major players in the energy sector are now shifting their priorities. The global energy shortages of 2022 seem to have woken much of the world up to just how impractical renewable energy can be.
An increase in the pace at which sea levels are rising threatens “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale”, the UN secretary general has warned.
The climate crisis is causing sea levels to rise faster than for 3,000 years, bringing a “torrent of trouble” to almost a billion people, from London to Los Angeles and Bangkok to Buenos Aires, António Guterres said on Tuesday. Some nations could cease to exist, drowned under the waves, he said.
Wow what an hysteric.
Elon Musk is old enough to remember John DeLorean — and the car he (briefly) made. He apparently does not remember the lessons DeLorean learned.
Now that’s a scam.
Experts in geoengineering say sulphur particle launches set dangerous precedent for private companies to interfere with planet’s atmosphere
A Mexico-based startup will next week launch sulphur particles into the stratosphere in a “rogue” move to create a “mini-volcano” effect it says could help cool the planet.
The technique, known as stratospheric aerosol injection, mimics the impact of volcanoes by using a weather balloon to release sulphur, creating a cloud of particles that reflect the sun’s rays and have a cooling impact.
It is one of several geoengineering techniques being studied as a way to cool the planet to avoid breaching internationally agreed limits on global warming.
Non-Californians were treated to an amusing spectacle last summer. In the Gilded State, it wasn’t so funny.
California’s electrical utilities, you may recall, had to beg the state’s residents not to charge their electric vehicles at night because it was putting too much stress on the state’s fragile grid and potentially forcing rolling blackouts. This urgent request came six days after California passed a new regulation banning the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles beginning in 2035.
When I was a kid, I remember environmentalists being utterly obsessed with “saving the whales.” So where are all these whale-loving environmentalists when you really need them?
Over the past two months, eight whales have washed ashore across New Jersey and New York beaches. Coincidentally or not, the major uptick in deaths of these majestic mammals also happens to be occurring as construction has begun for Empire Wind, a massive offshore wind farm located in the very same waters.
IN LAST week’s column, I wrote about BP’s warning that the world would still be needing fossil fuels in three decades’ time. The Telegraph reported the claim of their Chief Economist Spencer Dale that the world would still be reliant on fossil fuels for a fifth of its energy in 2050, despite adopting radical climate policies, according to BP’s latest Energy Outlook.
It turns out this forecast was Alice in Wonderland stuff.
Electric vehicle and hybrid vehicle sales in Germany dropped sharply in January following the expiration of its government subsidy program, illustrating the extent to which consumers depend on the financial incentives.
Electric car sales in Germany fell by 32% in January compared to the same point last year, according to data from German auto association VDA.
What is this “Just Transition” everyone’s been talking about?
It’s the beginning of the end for Canadian energy — a blueprint to dismantle an industry and cripple the economies of entire provinces.
It is the insane wish-dream of lunatics.
Now French farmers have joined the tractor revolt against the laptop classes.
Nothing speaks to the madness of the modern elites better than their war on farming. Consider France. One day President Macron is telling the world to get serious about ‘food security’. Post-Covid and with war raging in Ukraine, we must make sure food keeps being made and transported around the world, the French government says. Yet, at the same time, that same government, without missing a beat, is bringing in pesticide bans that could devastate sections of France’s own agriculture industry. Which could even lead to the closure of farms. Behold the schizophrenia of the 21st-century establishment.
EDMONTON — A new poll has found the overwhelming majority of Canadians have never heard of the Liberal government’s “just transition” plan, and more than half of respondents doubt that Ottawa can achieve its stated goal of replacing jobs lost in the oil and gas sector due to a transition to a low-carbon economy.
The apple really doesn’t fall far from the tree. We’ve all known that leftist dweeb Bill Gates holds absurdly misplaced views regarding his status as an “elite,” but he’s finally expressly verbalized (on video no less!) the same pseudo-superiority of his late father, and it’s just as gross and pathetic as you can imagine.
