“Net-Zero Tyranny” – Page 16

Glare from solar farm blinding pilots at Schipol airport

The government has had to pay the solar farm’s owner €7 million to remove panels and coat them with anti-reflective film

Aircraft arriving at one of Europe’s busiest airports are being diverted because of the glare from a nearby solar farm.

Pilots on approach to Schipol, Europe’s fourth biggest airport behind Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Istanbul, have warned of dazzling reflections from 228,000 solar panels installed under runway approach paths.

The problem has meant that the Zwanenburgbaan and Polderbaan runways must be closed during sunny periods, leading to congestion and delays at the airport and extra noise for locals.

by Blazingcatfur•August 22, 2025August 22, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", WTF?

Contracts handed out to build Volkswagen subsidiary EV battery plant in Ontario amidst tariff uncertainty … meanwhile Porsche shutters EV battery division

The company behind the plan for a massive battery plant in southwestern Ontario says uncertainty in the electric vehicle market and U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs aren’t causing a rethink, as it marks a new milestone for the project.

PowerCo SE, founded by automaker Volkswagen, is currently building a gigafactory in St. Thomas, Ont., to produce batteries for its growing electric vehicle range.

Germany’s Porsche is closing battery subsidiary Cellforce, reports say

According to German media reports, the sports car maker has decided to largely shut down its battery-making and research subsidiary Cellforce, cutting hundreds of jobs.
German sports car giant Porsche plans to close the majority of operations at its subsidiary Cellforce, a factory for high-performance battery cells.

According to the German newspaper Der Spiegel, the sports car manufacturer plans to lay off around 200 of its 286 employees at the factory in Kirchentellinsfurt, Germany.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•August 22, 2025August 22, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Medical Activists Try to Put Net Zero Considerations at the Heart of Cardiovascular Surgery

Major heart surgery is fraught with clinical danger and requires weeks of recuperation. But it is often a life-saving procedure, and various options to repair valves and widen arteries are available. The type of operation is determined on strict medical grounds based on factors such as age and health condition of the patient. The last thing you might need if faced with such a medical decision is some burk talking about climate change. Welcome to the Net Zero fantasy world, where a New York group of medical scientists and activists are suggesting such decisions could be partly based on saving the emission of greenhouse gases. The actual amount saved between two common operations discussed is said to be at most 390 kgs, about the same amount of carbon dioxide one human breathes out in a year. One human, it might be noted, among eight billion who live and breathe on the planet.

by Blazingcatfur•August 21, 2025August 20, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", WTF?

Activists Run to Federal Court to Try to Ban Official US Government Report that Blows Holes in ‘Settled’ Climate Science Claims

Science denying cry-babies in the US have toddled over to the Federal court in Massachusetts to seek an injunction against the recent Department of Energy (DoE) working party report about greenhouse gas emissions. The report’s main finding, produced after examining much of the literature from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was that computer models offered “little guidance” on how much of the climate responds to warming gases such as carbon dioxide. This observation is regularly ignored in mainstream media but it is hardly a new opinion. The available data leads to that inevitable conclusion despite all the political nonsense claims of ‘settled’ science. To go to court to seek to ban the report is a new low in the increasingly desperate attempt to keep the Net Zero fantasy alive using science scares that are increasingly being debunked.

by Blazingcatfur•August 18, 2025August 17, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s targets for cutting greenhouse gases fit the definition of insanity

After almost four decades of Canadian governments setting and failing to hit eight consecutive targets for reducing Canada’s industrial greenhouse gas emissions, surely it’s time to admit the targets are meaningless.

Far from being “aspirational” as supporters claim, they in fact deceive Canadians about the effectiveness of federal spending of more than $200 billion of taxpayers’ money on climate change (as of 2023) on 149 federal programs administered by 13 government departments, since the Liberal government came to power in 2015.

by Blazingcatfur•August 17, 2025August 17, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Can the ZEV mandate survive political pressure and industry objections?

With the federal carbon tax dead and gone, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has found a new target among the Liberal government’s climate policies — the electric vehicle availability standard, otherwise known as the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate.

“We will legalize, into the future, your right to drive a gas or diesel-powered truck or car by repealing the Liberal EV mandate,” Poilievre said last week, while restating his desire to see a number of Liberal policies repealed.

by Blazingcatfur•August 16, 2025August 16, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Liberal EV mandate is akin to ‘banning rural way of life,’ Poilievre says

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the Liberal government’s electric vehicle sales mandate is akin to “banning rural life” as he promised a nationwide pressure campaign to scrap the policy.

Poilievre took a pause from his Albertan byelection campaign Thursday for a press event in Saskatchewan in which he lambasted the Liberal policy — colloquially known as the EV mandate — as an attack on farmers and rural Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2025August 15, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

GUNTER: Pure folly for Liberals to try to force electric vehicles on Canadians

The Liberals’ devotion to their EV (electric vehicle) mandate borders on the cultish. They are certain, as all True Believers are, that if only they believe passionately enough (and spend enough taxpayers’ money), they will be able to convince all Canadians to buy EVs.

Or they’ll force us to.

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2025August 14, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘They’re increasingly skeptical’: Canadians say EV sales mandate ‘unrealistic,’ survey suggests

OTTAWA — An increasing majority of Canadians view the federal government’s goal of seeing all new vehicle sales be zero-emission by 2035 as “unrealistic” and believe the rule ought to the scrapped, a new survey suggests.

The polling firm Leger surveyed 1,617 respondents on their thoughts about the federal sales mandate for electric vehicles at the same time as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government faces pressure from industry to abandon the policy.

ELECTRIC FORD MALFUNCTION – STEERING LOCKED, GAS FLOORED ON FREEWAY

Driver seen praying as the car goes out of control before smashing into another vehicle. pic.twitter.com/TqecN5yn9z

— HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) August 14, 2025

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2025August 14, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Poilievre launches campaign to stop Carney’s gas car ban

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is launching a national campaign to stop what he calls Prime Minister Mark Carney’s law to end gas and diesel powered cars in Canada, warning it will drive up costs and end rural life.

Speaking at a Prairie farm today, Poilievre said Conservatives will table motions in Parliament, stage events at dealerships, pressure Liberal MPs in their ridings, and circulate petitions.

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2025August 14, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party

Mark Carney seems to have given up on his climate change agenda

We don’t often get a look at a potential prime minister’s detailed policy proposals. But in 2021 Mark Carney published a book that laid it all out for us.

”Values: Building a Better World for All,” states in no uncertain, and often very complicated, terms what we must do to build a better world. But one of the key themes of the book is climate change and all the lost life, damage and general mayhem it is already unleashing and will continue to do so at an even more frantic pace, if we don’t do something about it now.

I don’t think anyone but a Star writer could believe that.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2025August 13, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Cory Morgan: Poilievre’s Proposal Is Poised to Test Carney’s Resolve on Energy Projects

As Canada’s industries reel under ever-changing tariff burdens applied by U.S. President Donald Trump on Canadian products, it becomes clear that Canada must diversify its customer base for exports. The United States will always be Canada’s primary trading partner due to its size and proximity, but Canada will remain vulnerable to protectionist actions from presidents if it refuses to expand its capability to develop resources and deliver products to overseas customers.

Carney has kowtowed to the Indigenous rent seekers, likely a deliberate move to advance his economy killing eco-nuttery.

by Blazingcatfur•August 11, 2025August 10, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘Federal Regulator Predicts Decline in EV Sales Before 2026 Mandate’

Canada’s energy watchdog is forecasting a decrease in electric vehicle sales this year as Ottawa gears up to implement mandatory sales quotas for zero-emission vehicles in 2026.

Electric vehicle sales fell 23 percent in the first quarter of 2025 in comparison to the same timeframe last year, causing market share to dip to just 9 percent, according to a new report from Canada Energy Regulator.

… Before It Kills Off The Auto Industry

by Blazingcatfur•August 9, 2025August 9, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Oh, Noes! Imagine a CA Where EV Owners Are No Longer Special Flowerz

The EVrolution seems to be slipping away from the climate cultists faster than they can sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, and, in some cases, what people have paid to be part of it is going to look pretty expensive in the end if it all shakes out the way it’s going right now.

by Blazingcatfur•August 9, 2025August 9, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", California

Poilievre Calls for Scrapping EV Mandate After Auto CEOs’ Private Letter to Carney Made Public

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is once again calling for Ottawa to overturn its electric vehicle (EV) mandate, echoing a letter five automobile CEOs sent to the prime minister in May that was recently released.

“Automakers have warned Mr. Carney of the job losses and rising costs from his ban on gas-powered vehicles. We must allow people the freedom to choose,” the Tory leader said on Aug. 7.

by Blazingcatfur•August 9, 2025August 8, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party