Germany, historically the economic powerhouse of Europe, has been brought to its knees through its reckless pursuit of so-called “green energy,” while deliberately forfeiting its own energy security.
The disastrous result is a warning to all nations, including Canada, about the dangers of the ideological pursuit of low-carbon energy polices, without considering how they put reliable energy supplies at risk.
Greenpeace has been accused of making Britain more vulnerable to Russian blackmail by urging a judge to block drilling at a major North Sea gas field.
The eco campaign group claims Shell was wrongly granted a development licence for the Jackdaw field without proper environment checks last month, in defiance of the UK’s climate commitments.
It has brought a legal challenge against the Government and is vowing to frustrate other schemes brought forward in the North Sea as well.
To flip a very famous phrase, now is the summer of our discontent.
Toronto — always yearning to be a world-renowned city, but not in this way — has had its main airport deemed the “world’s worst.” The government of (what should be) a great country is buying lawn chairs for citizens stranded in endless lines waiting for passports. A democracy-minded woman from Medicine Hat is sitting in an Ottawa jail over highly technical “breach of bail’ conditions while volatile offenders wander freely outside in the summer air. Inquiries into possible interference in a massive police investigation and the first-time invocation of the Emergencies Act are stumbling along with questionable effectiveness.
EV Rivian Recovery… Mechanical breakdown – broken tie rod
This “Tow Truck” goes where others fear to tread.
Last week, Canadian news reports told of farm-related protests erupting across the country — including one that saw a slow roll convoy head through downtown Ottawa.
These reports described this activism as a show of support for Dutch farmers. Tensions have run high in the Netherlands as farmers have used equipment to block roads and supermarkets in response to climate change regulations targeting livestock emissions. They say the regulations will force the closure of farms across the country and send food prices soaring.
The federal government says Canada will still achieve its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction commitments despite Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault offering the oil and gas sector a little more time to hit its targets.
“The target date hasn’t changed. Really, the minister was just trying to show flexibility and good will,” said Bruce Cheadle, a senior communications adviser to Guilbeault.
Cheadle said the federal government is not “rewriting its program” on emission reductions but is rather trying to be flexible in the way it meets its overall 2030 target.
Everything this government says is a lie. They will deliberately impoverish you.
A state of emergency would be bad for democracy, freedom and living standards.
One of the most curious sights of the 21st century is radicals taking to the streets to demand a state of emergency. There was a time, back when politics was less crazy, when leftists and liberals were wary of emergency legislation. If a politician so much as uttered the word ‘emergency’ they’d be readying their placards and practicing their slogans. And with good reason. An ‘emergency’ is a deeply authoritarian affair. It involves suspending the normal political process on the basis that there’s a threat on the horizon that is so massive – whether it be terrorism, war, disease or some political ‘enemy within’ – that it cannot be dealt with by mere democratic means. No, only swiftly enforced brute law will do; only the rescinding of civil liberty will suffice.
Thomas Malthus predicted that famine was the inevitable byproduct of agriculturally successful populations: A well-fed population would breed faster than the agricultural sector could grow. For him, that was an unavoidable tragedy. Modern leftist governments, though, have a new approach to this: They are forcing Malthusian famines by mandating fertilizer reductions and seizing farmers’ lands. It’s all part of the Great Reset that the New World Order of Klaus Schwab et al have planned for us: You’ll have nothing, including no food, while they live in their castles on the hill, insulated from the Hobbesian terrors they’ve created.
How the climate of fear turned a heatwave into a catastrophe.
‘Hellfire’, said the Sun on its Wednesday morning frontpage, alongside a close-up image of burning houses. The Daily Mirror was no less dramatic. ‘Britain’s burning’, it announced, again showing that same blaze destroying people’s homes. Likewise, the Guardian accompanied a near identical image with the admonishment: ‘A wake-up call.’
Hero Tour de France fans have taken justice into the own hands to remove eco-protesters threatening to disrupt the event by blocking the road
Eight climate activists from Dernière Rénovation (Last Renovation) wearing T-shirts saying ‘we have 978 days left’ to tackle the environment tried to stop the race during the 20th stage between Lacapelle-Marival and Rocamadour.
But they were thwarted by spectators, which the militant eco-protesters admitted ‘removed’ them from the road even ‘before the police’ had arrived to later arrest the activists.
Thursday, Statistics Canada released new vehicle sales figures for the first three months of 2022. Some of the numbers might surprise you.
“New gasoline-powered vehicles posted the largest decline, with 13.2 per cent fewer new registrations in 2022” than during the same three months in 2021, “followed by diesel-powered vehicles, down 11.8 per cent.”
Conversely, registrations of new fully electric vehicles were up 55 per cent.
Ontario farmers say Canada’s fertilizer tariff punishes them for Russia’s war
As the federal government continues its efforts to punish Russia economically for its invasion of Ukraine, Ontario agriculture groups and representatives of Canada’s fertilizer sector are warning that cash crop farmers and consumers are the ones bearing the cost.
In March, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and International Trade Minister Mary Ng announced that in retaliation for Russia’s illegal invasion, Canada was imposing a 35 per cent general tariff on virtually all Russian imports — including nitrogen fertilizer that Eastern Canadian growers rely on to boost crop yields.
The timing — mere weeks from the start of planting season — couldn’t have been worse. Farmers make often risky decisions about what crops to grow and place orders for seed and fertilizer months in advance.
Something’s gotta give.
In Ottawa, the Trudeau government continues its ongoing farce of claiming Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions can be lowered by 40% to 45% compared to 2005 levels by 2030.
In the latest development, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault told CBC Radio’s The House that Canada’s oil and gas sector may be given more time to achieve the government’s target of reducing its emissions to at least 42% below 2005 levels by 2030.
Provincial agriculture ministers are expressing frustration with the Trudeau government over plans to effectively reduce fertilizer use by Canada’s farmers in the name of fighting climate change.
A meeting of federal and provincial ministers wrapped up in Saskatoon on Friday with several provinces saying they are disappointed.
The federal government is looking to impose a requirement to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizers saying it is a greenhouse gas contributing to climate change. While the Trudeau government says they want a 30% reduction in emissions, not fertilizer, farm producer groups say that at this point, reducing nitrous oxide emissions can’t be done without reducing fertilizer use.
The obsession with climate change is hammering the poor and driving voters to the right.
Last week, a joint survey by the New York Times and Siena College found that the Democrats are in deep trouble with some crucial voting blocs that had once been their mainstays. For the first time, Democrats now have a larger share of support among white college graduates than among non-white voters.
As some of us have been pointing out ad nauseam, we don’t have a political, partisan divide in the US. We have a class divide that separates college-educated elites from the working class. And the left has become almost completely aligned with those college-educated elites.
