Usual cast of Celebrity Idiots sign petition calling on RBC to stop financing Coastal GasLink pipeline in B.C.

Dozens of celebrities have signed a petition calling on the Royal Bank of Canada to stop financing the Coastal GasLink pipeline project in northern B.C.

The campaign, “No More Dirty Banks,” asks for the bank to withdraw its financial support of the pipeline immediately. It appears to have been signed by dozens of artists like Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson and Amy Schumer. Celebrities have signed the petition because RBC is parent company to City National Bank, known as the “bank of the stars.”

I think it’s great that clueless wealthy celebrities want to put ordinary people out of work.

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Chinese graphite dominance threatens electric car ambitions

Ripples of last year’s power crunch in China are still being felt by global battery and electric-car makers.

A shortage of coal supplies caused by an Indonesian export ban, a trade war with major supplier Australia and a steep rise in post-COVID-19 domestic demand prompted local Chinese authorities to ration power to energy-intensive industries, including graphite.

The rolling power blackouts as well as the suspension of graphite production in winter further squeezed global graphite supply, already struggling to keep up with strong demand for lithium-ion batteries as global electric vehicle sales went through the roof.

As a result, the mineral, which has often been overlooked when it comes to battery materials, has added to the troubles of battery and car manufacturers, who have been scouring the planet to secure supplies of other battery constituents like lithium, nickel and cobalt.

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Has Russia Been Financing Western Environmentalism?

Have Western environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs), movements and parties been possible, even unwitting, collaborators with the Russian government for the last ten years?

This question arises from a recent report by the Foundation for Political Innovation (Fondapol) in Paris. Fondapol’s director, Dominique Reynié, said in a recent interview:

“We have found Gazprom funding in particular environmental NGOs, which furnished certain European countries with ministers — Belgium for example — who then evidently embarked on a sort of return of favor by defending an exit from nuclear power.”

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Elon Is Right: Nuclear Is the Answer

With nuclear power, the West would be self-reliant for its energy needs.

Last Sunday evening, tech billionaire and entrepreneur extraordinaire Elon Musk tweeted, “Hopefully, it is now extremely obvious that Europe should restart dormant nuclear power stations and increase power output of existing ones.” His full-throated support for nuclear energy comes at a pivotal moment in global geopolitics, as energy prices continue to skyrocket and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensifies. “This is critical to national and international security,” said Musk.

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Electric vehicles face roadblocks as feds unsure how to implement communist command economy

Cost, scarcity and a shortage of charging stations are undermining Ottawa’s efforts

Canada’s first emissions reduction plan will be tabled in the House of Commons in two weeks. But the minister in charge says it won’t include specific details on how to meet the federal government’s sales targets for zero-emission cars and trucks over the next decade.

The federal plan is to require that half of all new cars sold in this country be zero-emission vehicles by 2030. Five years after that date, all new cars sold must be zero-emission.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said that while the goal of this national sales mandate is clear, he’s still consulting with the auto sector on the best way to meet it.

“We’re not sure yet exactly how we’ll get there, and the how is going to be developed in the course of the next year with the industry and other stakeholders. But the objectives are clear,” he said in an interview airing on The House this weekend.

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The Green Immoralists

Thousands are dying from Russian missiles and bombs in the suburbs of Ukraine.

In response, the Biden Administration’s climate-change envoy, multimillionaire and private-jet-owning John Kerry, laments that Russian President Vladimir Putin might no longer remain his partner in reducing global warming.

“You’re going to lose people’s focus,” Kerry frets. “You’re going to lose big-country attention because they will be diverted, and I think it could have a damaging impact.”

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Lunatic Guilbeault Exploits Ukraine’s Suffering To Further Green-Scam Agenda: ‘Canada can help Europe turn to renewables instead of Russian oil’

OTTAWA — Canada cannot realistically help Europe replace its Russian oil imports with Canadian crude or natural gas, but it can and is looking at ways to export renewable energy like hydrogen, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday.

Guilbeault was speaking at the Canadian Club Toronto to promote the federal environmental strategy ahead of the release of Canada’s new road map for greenhouse gas reductions coming at the end of the month.


A conspiracy theorist would suggest that the Ukraine crisis has been co-opted as an opportunity to advance the green-scam agenda. Count me among their number.

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There is no climate crisis

If there were, the IPCC wouldn’t be quietly turning the dial towards one

“No climate crisis” is, of course, not the spin the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is putting on its new 3,676-page report released last month. “The choices we make in the next decade will determine our future,” the IPCC says. “Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.”

It could hardly be plainer. The report is political advocacy barely masquerading as science.

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This energy crisis has deeper roots than Ukraine

This week the price of oil touched $139 a barrel, a 14-year high. International gas prices also surged to £6 a therm – 10 to 15 times their normal level.

It is too early to say how durable these enormous shocks will prove. However, both directly and indirectly, Western households, industry, farming, services and many other sectors depend on oil and gas for their transport and their electric power. They will be severely affected for as long as international markets price oil and gas at anything like these kinds of levels.

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White House says no plans to restart Keystone XL pipeline amid soaring gas prices

The Biden administration will not resume construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday.

“There are no plans for that,” Ms. Psaki said of restarting construction. “It would not address any of the problems that we are currently having.”

The pipeline would have brought as much as 700,000 barrels of oil per day into the U.S. from Canada. Republicans and some Canadian officials have called to restart construction on the halted project as the U.S. seeks to boost its oil supply and gas prices push toward $5.

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2 New York Dems Stand With Banner Comparing ‘Climate Change’ To Plane Headed For Twin Towers

Two New York state senators posed with a large banner that compared climate change to the terrorist attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001.

Sens. Rachel May and Robert Jackson, both Democrats, posed with the banner, which shows a plane, labeled climate change, heading for the Twin Towers. Both May and Jackson claimed they didn’t know what was on the sign before they held and posed with it.

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Gas prices in the GTA will ‘surge’ past $2 a litre in coming weeks as oil approaches US $150 a barrel: Trudeau carbon tax theft will make it worse

Gas prices in the GTA have went up a staggering 25 cents per litre over the last week but one industry analyst is warning that this may be the “calm before the storm” amid ongoing geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe.

The average price of a litre of fuel in the GTA has already risen from $1.58.9 to $184.9 since last Monday.

But Dan McTeague, who is the president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, tells CP24 that residents can expect to face more pain at the pumps as the reverberations from Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine continue to push the price of Brent crude higher.

He says that a planned increase of the carbon tax from eight to 11 cents per litre as of April 1 could also further inflate costs.

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Gasoline has never been more expensive — and high prices will be made worse by Trudeau’s carbon tax thievery

… McTeague says Canada’s reliance on U.S. refiners is once again a major factor in why Canadian drivers are paying more. “We price all of our fuel in U.S. [dollars]… so that makes the bad situation worse, which is why we’re looking at at least a five to six cents a litre increase,” on top of what we’ve already seen, he said.

On top of booming demand for oil leading to higher prices at the retail level, the federal carbon tax is slated to increase on April 1, a development which will add even more pennies to the price of every litre at the pump.

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Buttigieg on Keystone Pipeline amid Ukraine Invasion: We Don‘t Want ‘Permanent Solutions‘ to Short Term Problems

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour” that to combat oil prices skyrocketing amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden did not want to authorize the Keystone Pipeline.

According to Buttigieg, it would be “galloping after permanent solutions to immediate short term problems.”

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