The only way Canada will achieve Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s target of reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 will be through a major recession or recessions.
Federal environment commissioner Jerry DeMarco didn’t put things quite that bluntly on Tuesday when he gave the feds a failing grade on their efforts to reduce Canada’s emissions, but he came close.
The board chair of a federal green fund participated in the approval of more than $200,000 in grants to her own company, MPs have learned in committee.
Annette Verschuren, board chair of Sustainable Development Technologies Canada (SDTC), told the House of Commons ethics committee Nov. 8 that she had moved a motion for the board to approve COVID relief payments to STDC-affiliated companies.
The federal Liberals have undermined their highest environmental priority, the carbon tax, because they simply cannot afford to lose their Atlantic base.
For three decades, voters in the Maritimes and in Newfoundland and Labrador have mostly stood by the Liberal Party. One important exception came in 1996, when prime minister Jean Chrétien’s government tightened eligibility requirements for unemployment insurance – a vital social program for the region’s seasonal economy. Atlantic voters hammered the Liberals in the following election, costing them 20 seats.
How can you minimize your exposure to the burdensome carbon tax? Stop driving the car you need to get to work, eat less and — as of last week — move to a region that’s key to the Liberals’ electoral success.
Last Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year pause on the carbon tax for home heating oil. Technically, the pause applies to all Canadians, but in practice, it’s really just Atlantic Canada that stands to benefit, since it’s the only region where this particular fuel is used to a significant degree.
Doug McConnachie laid out his unvarnished thoughts on Aug. 25, unaware his words were being caught on tape.
Commenting on a fact-finding report he’d just received, the assistant deputy minister at Innovation came down hard on the senior leadership of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), a foundation in the middle of a five-year, billion-dollar funding deal with Ottawa.
“There’s a lot of sloppiness and laziness. There is some outright incompetence and, you know, the situation is just kind of untenable at this point,” he said.
You know, there was just a small chance that the Liberals could have gotten away with giving a timely political break to the Atlantic provinces by suspending the carbon tax on heating oil for home use. I’m sure I was personally well into my 30s as an Albertan before I learned that many homes out East are still heated in that picturesque 19th-century manner. “Wait, you burn liquid fuel? That sits in a big tank? And it has to be delivered in a truck?” I didn’t have a similarly mind-bending WTF experience until quite recently, when I heard how many Ontarian homeowners are (inexplicably) renting their water heaters from somebody.
Canadian Solar to build $800-million solar panel factory in southeastern Indiana
Ontario-based Canadian Solar Inc. will build an $800-million solar panel factory in southeastern Indiana that will employ about 1,200 workers once production is fully ramped up, the company said Monday.
Canadian Solar said it will build the new photovoltaic cell factory at the River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville, an Ohio River city located just north of Louisville, Kentucky.
The federal Conservatives are promising to unanimously approve fast-tracking of any government legislation that would give Canadians who use natural gas to heat their homes the same carbon tax break that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau extended late last week to those who heat their homes with oil.
The government is creating a rural carve-out for the carbon tax on home heating, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday.
The government will exempt home heating oil from the tax for three years, double the rural supplement in the rebate program and offer new programs Trudeau said will help rural Canadians switch to electric heat pumps.
“We have to fight climate change in a way that supports all Canadians,” Trudeau told a press conference.
We are lead by a high school student and not a very bright one at that.
After the worst wildfire season on record and baking heat waves this summer, most Canadians want the government to take urgent action against climate change — but fewer are willing to dig into their own pockets to help that fight, according to recent polling.
More than two-thirds (68 per cent) of respondents to a new Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News agreed that Canada will continue to grapple with extreme weather events.
Whistleblowers at green fund want federal government to protect them from career, legal reprisals
Whistleblowers who exposed problems at a federal green fund are calling for protection from possible professional or legal retaliation.
The organization targeted by the whistleblowers earlier this year is Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), a foundation created and funded by the federal government.
Under its ongoing agreement with Ottawa, SDTC has $1 billion in federal funds to distribute to small and medium-sized businesses in the clean tech field between 2021 and 2026.
It’s nothing new to say that conservative politicians are speaking out against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s controversial carbon tax. They’ve been doing it for years, including waging court challenges against the pesky fee.
What’s different now though is more voices are joining the fray to critique the tax, as it feels increasingly unfair in the face of cost-of-living concerns. One of those voices includes a Liberal MP.
Leading voices in the climate community are in an uproar as their warming hypothesis comes under fresh assault by new scientific papers.
The authors of the papers are being attacked and say that “activist scientists” threatened by the new findings are “aggressively conducting an orchestrated disinformation campaign to discredit the papers and the scientific reputation of the authors.”
The climate-change scheme and net-zero carbon policy are based upon a false notion that carbon dioxide and other gases cause global warming. They do not. We don’t have to guess about this. We have empirical and scientific proof.
I owned a Weights and Measures gas-physics test-and-repair facility and conducted tests. We learned gas physics from engineers at factories that manufacture gas-physics instruments. They must understand gas physics, or their instruments won’t work.
h/t DM
Canada’s top court has delivered a highly anticipated judgment, writing in a majority opinion that Ottawa’s Impact Assessment Act (IAA) is largely unconstitutional.
The IAA, previously known as Bill C-69, allows federal regulators to consider the potential environmental and social impacts of various resource and infrastructure projects. It was enacted in 2019.
The IAA has long been controversial among conservative politicians in Alberta, including former premier Jason Kenney, who frequently referred to it as the “no more pipelines act.”
