In its monthly update on energy trends, Statistics Canada reported this week that this year, for the first time ever, Canada has become a net importer of electricity. The switchover in our electricity trade balance reveals the shortcomings of an energy strategy that now emphasizes decarbonization over energy security, leaving customers vulnerable to supply shortfalls and higher prices.
Somewhere in Ottawa, the soon retiring NDP MP Charlie Angus must be rubbing his hands in glee. Thanks to his mischief, the oil and gas sector’s biggest players have been squelched. Mission accomplished!
Not only has Angus figured out how to hijack parliamentary committees, routinely hauling energy company CEOs into Ottawa for public scoldings, his successful push for a new “greenwashing” rule in omnibus Bill C-59 has achieved his desired effect. Several blue-chip companies, including the Pathways Alliance group of oilsands companies, have scrubbed all content from websites and social media.
Achieving “net zero” carbon emissions in Canada will reportedly cost billions more than what the federal government has claimed.
On Wednesday, the Budget Office said a calculation error was uncovered for tax credits intended for a green economy by 2050, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
I don’t believe it was an “error”. The Liberals always lie.
Blood diamonds, blood cobalt, and now blood nickel. Governments leading the global shift toward electric vehicles promise cleaner cities and a new era of sustainable energy and improved resource usage. But just as governments promote EVs on environmental grounds, manufacturers are forced to source nickel from a region enabling the wanton destruction of ecologically sensitive lands, reckless treatment of workers, and the fundamental deterioration of living conditions. There is only one solution to this problem: the world needs more Canadian nickel.
EV’s look bad from more angles than the general public is yet aware of. No one is going to give up their Blood Nickle, not easily.
The rise of electric vehicles helped bring environmentalists and the Canadian auto sector closer together. Now, the threat of Chinese-made electric vehicles is pushing them apart.
A schism between the two sides came into view last week after the federal Liberals announced a 30-day consultation on how to protect Canadian auto workers from what Deputy Prime Minister Chyrstia Freeland characterized as a potential flood of cheap EVs from China.
It’s not a healthy market period and likely to collapse without China’s help.
Northolt’s battery factory in Montreal could be delayed as EV market cools
Canadians have been standing at filling stations for decades, so they’re probably not thinking too much about the taxes they pay on their gas or where that money goes, but that may change as more electric vehicles are sold.
Alberta this past spring slipped EV owners a bill for $200 — due every year on top of the standard registration fees — to account for the wear and tear on roads their cars cause. In doing so, it joined Saskatchewan and a number of jurisdictions in the United States that have imposed additional fees on EV drivers to compensate for the fact that they’re not paying taxes on gasoline.
A trade war with China over EVs could slow Canada’s low-carbon transition, groups warn
Environmental groups are calling on the federal government to avoid getting into a trade war with China over electric vehicles.
They say they fear trade sanctions could make EVs more expensive, delaying Canada’s transition to a low-carbon economy.
Less than a week after the federal government announced it was considering imposing trade restrictions on cheaper Chinese-made EVs, groups like Environmental Defence are urging Ottawa to consider the ramifications of such a move.
I bet commie Guilbeault agrees.
While Liberal MPs desperate to get re-elected next year are busy knifing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the back, the Trudeau government has just passed a draconian new law against free speech aimed primarily at Canada’s oil and gas sector.
Ray Bestwick bought an electric car last May in the hope of hassle-free motoring.
But with eight trips to the garage in little more than a year, the 62-year-old engineer cannot wait to put an end to his “soul-destroying” experience.
Electric vehicles (EV) may benefit the environment, but thousands of owners have expressed their regret over their car purchase.
A McKinsey Mobility Consumer Pulse presentation released in June 2024 by McKinsey & Company indicated that 46 percent of EV owners in the US are ‘very’ likely to switch back to gas-powered vehicles.
The data is based on responses from nearly 37,000 participants who own EVs, but the US results are what surprised the company that conducted the study.
According to “energy transition” and “net-zero” enthusiasts, the future looks bright for electric vehicles (EVs). Though not so bright, it seems, that the federal and some provincial governments haven’t had to offer at least $15 billion in subsidies to prompt carmakers to develop Canadian production facilities, as well as lavish subsidies to get people to buy EVs. And since even that isn’t enough to bring consumers around, a Trudeau government mandate now requires that all new light-duty vehicles sold in Canada must be electric or plug-in hybrid by 2035. In other words, the government is banning traditional internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs).
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from 2030, the first country to do so as it targets a major source of methane emissions, one of the most potent gases contributing to global warming.
The aim is to reduce Danish greenhouse gas emissions by 70% from 1990 levels by 2030, said Taxation Minister Jeppe Bruus.
What’s driving the new economy? The old economy’s gas-powered vehicles.
One of the most remarkable and unanticipated benefits of the cloud revolution has been the emergence and rapid growth of the so-called gig economy. Ubiquitous personal geo-location, itself an unheralded revolution, combined with a cloud-centric software “platform” that connects buyers and sellers, has spawned one of society’s most dynamic, free-market employment systems. Hundreds of digital platforms—from Uber and DoorDash to TaskRabbit and Rover—now serve as the marketplace for all manner of trades in goods and services that are, in nearly all cases, facilitated by gig workers. The freelance marketplace already generates more than $200 billion annually. Pew Research found that roughly one in six adults (heavily skewing to young adults), and one in four lower-income Americans, do gig work, for which many say that the income is “important or essential.”
The Canadian government appears set to push back against the explosive growth in Chinese electric vehicle imports by joining its allies in a tariff battle that risks triggering retaliation from Beijing.
On Thursday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford called on the federal government to “immediately match or exceed U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports, including at least a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles.”
“Taking every advantage of low labour standards and dirty energy, China is flooding the market with artificially cheap electric vehicles. Unless we act fast, we risk Ontario and Canadian jobs,” the premier said in a media statement.
I’m sure Canada’s China class will steer Justin in Beijing’s approved direction.
Critics of the carbon tax (such as myself) argue that by taxing the energy and material inputs of virtually every element of economic activity, the tax will essentially raise the cost of all goods and services (housing, transportation, food, heating and cooling, health care, etc.) in Canada.
