“Net-Zero Tyranny”

Ivison: Canada’s multi-billion dollar bet on EV battery plants is ‘disastrous’ policy, Balsillie says

The man credited with remaking the smartphone industry with Blackberry in the early 2000s says Ottawa’s decision to give tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to foreign companies like Volkswagen to build battery cell manufacturing plants in Canada was a “catastrophically disastrous move.”

Jim Balsillie, the former chair of Research in Motion and more recently the co-founder of the Council of Canadian Innovators, told National Post’s John Ivison that he thinks Canada’s approach to trade and competitiveness is outdated and ignores the fact that in the knowledge economy, prosperity flows from ownership of intellectual property.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Foreign workers drove forklifts, did trade tasks at Windsor EV battery plant, say union, construction leaders

Canadian construction and union leaders say they’re frustrated over the continued use of foreign workers for non-specialized tasks at the massive NextStar electric vehicle battery plant project in Windsor, Ont., that’s receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer support.

They also say they’ve been disappointed in the response they’ve received from all levels of government when they’ve raised concerns.

“I personally have sat with many ministers federally, provincially, right to the top. And it’s not a secret,” says Jason Roe, the business manager for Local 700 of the Ironworkers union. “People know that it’s been going on.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

School bus fire: Quebec pulls all 1,200 Lion electric buses off roads for inspection

Schools across Quebec have been forced to cancel bus service after the government pulled all of the roughly 1,200 Lion electric buses in the province off the roads.

The provincial government said it took the precautionary measure after a Lion electric school bus caught fire in Montreal earlier this week. Several children and a driver were inside the bus when it caught fire but no one was injured.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

GUNTER: Count on Carney to continue Trudeau’s anti-pipeline stance

According to Radio-Canada (the CBC’s French-language service) Prime Minister Mark Carney will not include an oil pipeline in his list of national priority projects to be released Thursday. Radio-Canada says three sources with knowledge of the list have confirmed the Liberals’ decision.

Well, so much for Canada becoming an energy superpower, as Carney has promised repeatedly. That’s not going to happen without at least one, and likely two, pipelines to go east and west to new export terminals.

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Scrapping 100% tariff on Chinese EVs would be death knell for Canada’s auto industry, experts warn

As the federal government reviews Canada’s 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, industry insiders warn that ditching it entirely would be “an existential threat” to the Canadian automotive industry.

The tariff, which came into place almost a year ago, faces an automatic review, with results due by Oct. 1. Getting rid of it would prompt harsh retaliation from the U.S., and be the death knell for automotive production here, said the head of the association representing Detroit’s Big Three automakers in Canada.

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Carney considering scrapping tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles

If Canadians were in the driver’s seat, tariffs imposed by Ottawa on Chinese electric vehicles (EV) would have an easier road to the Canadian market.

At least that’s according to a Nanos Research survey with CTV News, which found 62 per cent of respondents either support or somewhat support removing a 100 per cent tax on all Chinese-made EVs, in the hopes that China may remove tariffs against Canadian crops like Canola.

Just what we need.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

MCTEAGUE: Mark Carney should have pulled the plug on the EV fantasy

In what may be the least shocking political news of the year, this past Friday the Carney government announced a twelve month pause to the Electric Vehicle (EV) mandate, which had been set to go into effect this coming January. (Or, as they put it in their obnoxious public policy-speak, they plan to “give the auto sector flexibility by waiving 2026 model vehicles from Electric Vehicle Availability Standard requirements.”)

Well, of course they did! As I’ve pointed out, time and time again, the Liberal’s EV mandate isn’t just a gross violation of our freedom that will make our lives harder and more expensive. It is also completely and utterly unworkable!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

At Long Last, Clarity on Climate

The Energy Department’s recent report is drawing predictable criticism from politicized scientists.

A recent Energy Department report challenged the widespread belief that greenhouse-gas emissions pose a serious threat to the nation. It likely soothed Americans irked by forced energy transitions, but you would be wrong to assume it reassured many alarmed by hypothetical climate catastrophes.

There is a disconnect between public perceptions of climate change and climate science—and between past government reports and the science itself. Energy Secretary Chris Wright understands this. It’s why he commissioned an independent assessment by a team of five senior scientists, including me, to provide clearer insights into what’s known and not about the changing climate.

h/t DS

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‘A colossal train wreck’: U.S. energy chief slams odds of net zero by 2050

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has lambasted plans to reach net zero emissions by 2050, calling the climate target “a colossal train wreck” that countries will most likely fail to achieve.

His comments, which were first published as part of an interview with the Financial Times on Monday, come as Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum prepare to travel to Milan, Italy, for the Gastech energy conference.

“Net zero 2050 is just a colossal train wreck … It’s just a monstrous human impoverishment program and of course there is no way it is going to happen,” Wright said in remarks shared by the U.S. Department of Energy on social media platform X.

Canada is about 5 years behind normal.

h/t DS

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Ottawa Won’t Scrap EV Mandate, Wants Increased Imports, Domestic Production: Industry Minister

As Ottawa embarks on a 60-day review of its electric vehicle (EV) mandate, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says the plan is not to get rid of the policy but rather to boost the production and importation of the vehicles.

“We want to build more EVs in Canada. We need to because we know that’s where basically the world is heading, and we want to make sure that we are able to compete with also Chinese EVs,” Joly said during a press conference in Montreal on Sept. 8.

Give her a bottle and she’ll say anything.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Adam Pankratz: Just put EV mandate out of its misery already

Those with an attentive ear may have picked up on the distinct sound of sobbing emanating from the Department of Canadian Identity and Culture. They are the sobs of its minister, erstwhile minister of environment and climate change, Stephen Guilbeault, watching the slow but certain immolation of Canada’s electric vehicle sales mandate, as it goes up in smoke. Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that automakers would no longer need to have 20 per cent of their sales be zero emission vehicles, either fully electric or hybrid election, in 2026.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Cancelling EV sales mandate a sign of much bigger problems for taxpayers

Prime Minister Mark Carney was right to kill his government’s mandate that 20% of all new car sales in Canada had to be zero emissions vehicles starting next year – current sales are less than half that – but that’s just the tip of the iceberg of the problem.

The bigger problem is that, according to the Parliamentary Budget Office, Canada’s federal and provincial governments – mainly Ontario and Quebec – have earmarked up to $52.5 billion to subsidize 13 major Electric Vehicle supply chain projects, 14% more than the $46.1 billion the EV industry in Canada is spending on itself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Joly won’t say if federal climate targets are here to stay

As Prime Minister Mark Carney announces he’s pausing yet another cornerstone environmental policy laid out by his predecessor Justin Trudeau, Industry Minister Melanie Joly won’t say whether the federal government will maintain its 2030 and 2035 emissions reduction targets.

Carney announced Friday that his government will pause the 2026 electric vehicle (EV) target, launch a review of the overall mandate and amend federal Clean Fuel Regulations.

The move follows Carney’s decision to zero out the consumer price on carbon in March, his first move as prime minister.

Speaking to reporters following his announcement on Friday, Carney signalled the door is open to other changes on climate policy, except for the industrial price on carbon.

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How a Quebec battery plant promising economic growth turned into a money pit

In September 2023, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier François Legault stood on a Montreal stage alongside Northvolt executives and announced what they called a “historic” partnership: a plan to build a new mega-factory on Montreal’s South Shore.

It was to be called Northvolt Six — a plant that would churn out electric vehicle batteries, create 3,000 jobs and contribute more than $1 billion to the economy.

Both the provincial and federal governments rolled out the red carpet for Northvolt, a Swedish company, to woo them into choosing Quebec for their first major factory outside of Europe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Is the zero-emission vehicle mandate dead or merely sleeping?

Mark Carney’s announcement on Friday that implementation of the federal government’s zero-emission vehicle mandate will be delayed by at least a year can be read as another retreat on climate policy from the new prime minister.

It can also be read as a small victory for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who had been calling on the government to abandon the policy.

That was certainly Poilievre’s own reading of events.

It’s not just Poilievre. The auto industry itself has been begging to have the ZEV cancelled entirely.

If a pause is simply a way to save face before full blown cancellation then so be it but Carney is a fanatic with many “friends” expecting to profit from the EV scam.

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