Bryan Brulotte: Europe wants our energy. Ottawa must act now

Bryan Brulotte: Europe wants our energy. Ottawa must act now

In a 2022 news conference, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there wasn’t a clear business case for building liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals to export to Europe. This past week, Mark Carney suggested in a media interview that the first thing European authorities are interested in when they sit down with Canada is not our energy. He went on to say that energy is something Canada raises as being part of the solution in respect to nuclear and LNG.


Carney will talk big but nothing will get done.

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Germany’s Nuclear Confession Is a Crack in Net‑Zero Pretense

Germany’s Nuclear Confession Is a Crack in Net‑Zero Pretense

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called the nuclear phaseout a “serious strategic mistake” that left Germany short of firm power that turned the Energiewende into the most expensive energy transition on the planet. This is an early marker for a developing worldwide retreat from policies that sidelined nuclear power and demonized coal, oil, and natural gas.

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Liberals fund $180M World Bank climate initiative focused on clean energy, gender equality on small islands

Liberals fund $180M World Bank climate initiative focused on clean energy, gender equality on small islands

CALGARY — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has committed $180 million in taxpayer money to a World Bank climate initiative aimed at accelerating the global transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy and addressing “gender equality gaps” in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

According to the federal government’s grants and contributions website, the funding was provided to the World Bank through the “World Bank Clean Energy and SIDS Resilience Facility (CESR).”

(Incognito)

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CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s costly climate gamble on food needs to end

CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s costly climate gamble on food needs to end

For years, Canadians were told that catastrophic climate scenarios justified virtually any policy imposed in the name of emissions reductions. In agriculture and food, this translated into mounting costs across the supply chain, escalating industrial carbon pricing, and a policy environment increasingly disconnected from affordability and competitiveness.

Now, quietly, the scientific conversation is evolving.

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Economic growth now tops environment as priority in energy policy, poll suggests

Economic growth now tops environment as priority in energy policy, poll suggests

OTTAWA – More Canadians now say economic growth should be a bigger priority in Canada’s energy policy than protecting the environment, a new Angus Reid Institute report suggests.

The pollster released a report today that suggests 61 per cent of Canadians now see economic growth as the biggest priority in energy policy.

That’s a shift in public opinion since seven years ago, when the same question had 55 per cent of Canadians saying that the environment should be the top priority in energy policy.


And Carney is just the man to lie to your face about it.

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Carney should recognize the damage and scrap industrial carbon tax

Carney should recognize the damage and scrap industrial carbon tax

Once again, war in the Middle East is destabilizing global energy markets, increasing energy costs (including at the pumps) and threatening Canada’s already fragile economy.

Yet at a moment when policymakers should do everything possible to unlock Canada’s economic potential, the Carney government is doubling down on the Trudeau-era industrial carbon tax, which further raises energy costs, dampens investment and job growth — and all for negligible environmental benefits.

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John Ivison: Trudeau’s big EV bet is officially a Flop

John Ivison: Trudeau’s big EV bet is officially a Flop

Wednesday’s report from the financial news site Nikkei Asia that Honda has suspended its plan to build a $15-billion electric vehicle plant in Ontario indefinitely comes as no surprise — particularly not to the federal government, which was told in January, sources say.

The big picture is that Canada’s ambitious gamble to be the locus for North American electric vehicle production has flopped and the battle now is to conserve the assembly plants that are already here.

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Conservatives blame Liberal EV strategy after Honda plant suspension report

Conservatives blame Liberal EV strategy after Honda plant suspension report

OTTAWA — Conservatives are blaming the federal government’s electric vehicle strategy after reports that Honda is indefinitely suspending plans for a $15 billion electric vehicle project in Ontario.

Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged Wednesday that Canada’s auto sector is facing pressure from U.S. tariffs, though he did not directly address the Honda reports.

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Honda abandoning plans for $15-billion EV plant in Ontario, Japanese news source says

Honda abandoning plans for $15-billion EV plant in Ontario, Japanese news source says

Honda is abandoning plans to build a $15-billion EV plant in Ontario because of slumping demand, according to a report by Nikkei, Japan’s leading business publication.
Honda neither confirmed nor denied the report.

“The content of the article was not released by Honda, and we have nothing to report at this time,” the company said in a written statement.


More … The EV Bust Claims Five More Victims… and They Aren’t Even EVs?

Honda’s failed bet on electric vehicles means the Japanese auto giant will have to stretch the lifecycles of five top-selling vehicles “in some cases to more than a decade,” according to a supplier memo seen by Automotive News.

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Europe’s Energy Suicide: The EU Admits the World Runs on Fossil Fuels — While Deliberately Destroying Its Own

Europe’s Energy Suicide: The EU Admits the World Runs on Fossil Fuels — While Deliberately Destroying Its Own

The European Union’s energy policy has reached a level of ideological self-harm that even its harshest critics could scarcely have imagined.

The global economy continues to run overwhelmingly on fossil fuels. Transportation, electricity generation, heavy industry, heating, and plastics production all depend on them.

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Federal EV chargers see little use despite millions in taxpayer spending

Federal EV chargers see little use despite millions in taxpayer spending

Federal departments spent millions installing electric vehicle charging stations across government properties, but usage data shows many of the chargers are rarely used, with some sitting idle and others averaging fewer than one vehicle per day.

Blacklock’s Reporter says records tabled in the House of Commons show Natural Resources Canada could not provide a full breakdown of total spending per charger by location, despite overseeing a large portion of the rollout.

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GOLDSTEIN: Climate hysteria wasted our money, failed to reduce need for fossil fuels

GOLDSTEIN: Climate hysteria wasted our money, failed to reduce need for fossil fuels

After almost four decades of climate alarmism the so-called “fight” against climate change has failed.

In 1990, the base year for the now long-forgotten Kyoto climate accord that was supposed to be the first step in saving the planet from catastrophic global warming, fossil fuels – oil, coal, natural gas – provided 87.38% of the world’s energy.

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The Devon experiment that could plunge Britain into darkness

The Devon experiment that could plunge Britain into darkness

“It’s like having a curfew,” says Rose Lelliott, 23. Outside her flat, on a quiet road in Exeter – the sort of place you’d imagine your mother would encourage you to live, were you a young woman moving away from home for the first time – the street lights that once guided her way to the local train station are all either broken, working at half-power, or permanently snuffed out.

Lelliott commutes to London once a week, where she works as a researcher at the House of Commons. To make the train for her 9am start, she has to be out the door by 5.15am, but the streetlamps along her road are turned off between 12.30pm and 5.30am. After 9.30pm, they’re dimmed to just 40 per cent of their usual power.

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