“Net-Zero Tyranny”

Throwing good money after bad. Even with carbon capture and storage (CCS).

That’s the position Alberta’s oil companies would find themselves in under Ottawa’s proposed emissions cap, according to a new report from Deloitte Canada.

According to the national consulting firm, the emissions rules would make it more economical to simply leave barrels in the ground, costing the Canadian economy $282 billion in lost GDP over 10 years — $191 billion in Alberta alone.

America should destroy its economy and pay climate reparations to other countries in the name of “degrowth,” because that will somehow help the environment. Or at least that is the conclusion of a suspiciously friendly interview between the New York Times and an actual professed eco-Marxist.

The article, by New York Times book critic Jennifer Szalai, ran with the tagline: “economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing.”

Taxpayer dollars continue to go to an unreliable source of energy that often has negative environmental effects.

Your tax dollars will subsidize a solar company cutting down thousands of protected and rare Joshua trees and destroying habitat for the endangered desert tortoise to make way for a massive energy project in California.

The 2,300-acre Aratina Solar Project west of Barstow is intended to generate 530 megawatts of electricity. But it has infuriated residents with construction dust and a likely threat to centuries-old trees and endangered desert tortoises that are the official state reptile of California and Nevada, the usual environmental safeguards so prevalent in California notwithstanding.

Sir Keir Starmer is standing by a pledge to ban new drilling in the North Sea, despite New Zealand abandoning a similar policy amid blackout fears.

Labour’s manifesto, due out on Thursday, will feature a pledge to block all new licensing for oil and gas as one of its key energy policies.

The party “will not be issuing licences to explore new [oil and gas] fields as we accelerate to clean power”, a Labour spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.

The EU’s punishing climate policies are facing an almighty public backlash.

In 2019, Green parties achieved their best ever European Parliament election results. They even topped the polls in some member states, including Germany. Europe’s cultural and political elites could barely conceal their delight at the time, viewing the rising support for the Greens as an endorsement of their own managerialist mission to tackle the so-called climate emergency. The EU’s technocrats seized their chance. Within months of this alleged ‘green wave’, Brussels pushed through its Green Deal, which committed all member states to Net Zero, or carbon neutrality, by 2050. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen hailed the Green Deal at the time as ‘Europe’s man-on-the-moon moment’.