The most persistent trend adding to inflation is the transition to “green energy,” which “raises costs,” according to a new Bank of Canada staff discussion paper.
“The 2021–22 Surge in Inflation” says that Canada has undergone the most pronounced surge in inflation in the 2021–2022 fiscal year since the 1970s.
A dollar in 1970 was equivalent to about $7.44 in purchasing power today, according to the Canada Inflation Calculator, based on Statistics Canada consumer price index (CPI) data.
A Green Party-led council has said it can’t empty overflowing dog waste bins near a beauty spot because its new fleet of electric vehicles cannot be used off-road and binmen might injure themselves if they lift the bins by hand.
Large amounts of dog waste have been dumped on Hollingbury Golf Club in Brighton – close to an Iron Age hillfort – after Brighton & Hove City council relocated a nearby bin because its new multi-million pound fleet is “not designed for off-road driving”.
IT IS the year 2050 and Britain, relentlessly driven by the governing Labour-Green coalition, has achieved Net Zero. The nation is quite unrecognisable from the comfortable, well-fed country it was in the early part of the 21st century. Massive wind turbines cover the landscape; the old ones built 25 years ago now knocked down and lying next to the new ones because it was uneconomic to remove them. The whole country is covered in a dense spider’s web of power lines from the multitude of wind and solar farms miles from where the power is needed. Offshore wind farms died ten years ago: it became impossible to maintain them because all the workboats were rusting in port with no fuel. Thousands of acres of formerly productive agricultural land are now solar farms with nothing but weeds growing beneath the panels.
A Tesla Model S burst into flames on Saturday afternoon in California while driving on Highway 50, causing two eastbound lanes to close, officials said.
The electric vehicle was traveling at “freeway speeds” when its battery compartment “spontaneously” caught fire, the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said on Twitter. The incident happened around 3:41 p.m.
The vehicle battery compartment spontaneously caught fire while it was traveling freeway speeds on EB Hwy 50. The fire was extinguished with approx 6,000 gallons of water, as the battery cells continued to combust. Thankfully no injuries were reported. pic.twitter.com/PRmlWzQdXS
— Metro Fire of Sacramento (@metrofirepio) January 29, 2023
YOU may have read about Greta Thunberg’s arrest last week at a demonstration in Germany against a new lignite mine which will obliterate a village and a wind farm.
Irritated that by suggestions that the scene involving their golden girl was stage-managed, the BBC rushed out a report by ‘climate disinformation reporter’ Merlyn Thomas: ‘German police have denied being “extras for Greta Thunberg” after false claims that her detainment at a protest in western Germany was staged. “We would never give ourselves to make such recordings,” a spokesperson for local police told the BBC, denying allegations that Ms Thunberg’s detainment was fake.’
Religious visions of the Final Judgement live on in modern fears about the climate.
Fearing a nuclear war over the conflict in Ukraine, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its ‘Doomsday Clock’ forward another 10 seconds. Apparently, we are now at 90 seconds to midnight, meaning that humanity is closer to oblivion than ever before.
Civilization cannot stand unless civilized people stand up to hysterics.
It’s always a sound idea to start at the beginning rather than in the middle — so let’s do that.
The whole push for “electrification” is based on a manufactured “necessity” — that of preventing what is styled “climate change.” The assertion itself is so vague as to be without substantive meaning. That’s a good beginning. How are we supposed to have any kind of intelligent debate when the baseline of the debate is so shiftily amorphous? It is certainly not — as the saying has it — “scientific.” That latter being defined by specificity — in order that the specifics can be examined, challenged, proved — or not.
Heading to Blackpool to attend an awards ceremony, businesswoman Sophie Preston-Hall not only arrived late, but barely had time to get dressed.
‘I’ve made the journey lots of times. From my home in Essex, it should have taken about four-and-a-half hours,’ says the 49-year-old.
‘Instead it took almost 12. I was an hour and a half late to the dinner and ended up having to change in a Tesco toilet — where I had to ask a woman to zip up my dress for me.’
As more motorists own electric vehicles (EVs) and experience problems operating them, evidence shows that the movement to abandon gas-powered vehicles is ideologically motivated and unsupported by rational economic calculation.
In January 2023, four Wyoming state senators and two representatives introduced Senate Joint Resolution No. SJ004 to ban the sale of EVs in Wyoming by 2035. The proposed legislation stressed that “Wyoming’s vast stretches of highway, coupled with a lack of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, make the widespread use of electric vehicles impracticable for the state.” The proposed legislation also noted that “the batteries used in electric vehicles contain critical minerals whose domestic supply is limited and at risk of disruption.”
The US’s transition to electric vehicles could require three times as much lithium as is currently produced for the entire global market, causing needless water shortages, Indigenous land grabs, and ecosystem destruction inside and outside its borders, new research finds.
It warns that unless the US’s dependence on cars in towns and cities falls drastically, the transition to lithium battery-powered electric vehicles by 2050 will deepen global environmental and social inequalities linked to mining – and may even jeopardize the 1.5C global heating target.
But ambitious policies investing in mass transit, walkable towns and cities, and robust battery recycling in the US would slash the amount of extra lithium required in 2050 by more than 90%.
It isn’t just EV’s the whole green movement is a scam. Remember they don’t want to allow you to drive anything.
EV’s Not-so-little Dirty Secrets
The next provincial election in Alberta is only a few months away and will be the most consequential one to occur in my 70 years of living and prospering in Alberta. It will create a real “existential” binary choice for Albertans; will we choose to resist the deconstruction of our economy and its reliance on the hydrocarbon production sector, or accommodate that by acquiescing to an extreme, implacable national climate and energy agenda of de-carbonization?
I’M increasingly alarmed at how all the UK’s major political parties are committed to the Net Zero policy. If implemented, it will have appalling consequences for the economy and for most people, few of whom understand the quite simple issues involved. I have therefore put together a ‘briefing document’ which marshals three arguments that I hope may contribute to curtailing the policy before it’s too late.
Just before Christmas, Akio Toyoda, the CEO of Toyota Motors, told reporters that he doubts automakers should be attempting to shift all their production away from fossil-fuel power to focus exclusively on electric vehicles (EVs). General Motors, for example, is publicly committed to an “all-electric future” within a few years. The CEO of Toyota, however, says such objectives may not be grounded in business and economic realities.
This year — 2023 — marks year two of Canada’s net-zero plan, which will remake virtually every aspect of our economy and society, if it proceeds according to the Trudeau government’s ambitious plans.
To recap, the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act became law on June 29, 2021, committing Canada to achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) by 2050. In March 2022, the federal government published the Emissions Reduction Plan, which requires 45% to 50% reductions in GHG emissions from Canada by 2030, boasting separate net-zero programs for buildings, electricity, heavy industry, oil and gas, transportation, agriculture, waste. Simply put, since 2021 Canada has committed virtually every aspect of its existence to achieve a net-zero posture by 2050. And all Canadian policies, regardless of how small or how tall, will be seen as virtuous if they move the needle to net-zero, or failures if they do not.
They glue themselves to streets, block traffic, occupy airfields, and sully precious works of art: climate activists have caused havoc in many major European capitals over the past few months. They call themselves ‘The Last Generation’ and defend the sticky character of their protests as a strategy for bringing attention to the ‘climate catastrophe.’ They demand drastic actions against ‘climate change,’ including a cessation of oil drilling operations in the North Sea, an end to all fossil energy consumption, and new ways to limit food waste.
However, what’s taken place over the last few months, indeed, what looks like a passionately sincere—albeit loudmouthed—generational trend is actually a well-funded plan executed by a well-organised association. The ‘Last Generation’ is no exception. Recruiters and NGOs for climate activism advertise lucrative ‘jobs’ as protestors, offering €520-1,300—plus benefits. The jobs are “part-time” or “full-time,” as reported by Welt am Sonntag.
