“Net-Zero Tyranny” – Page 58

This is the end of the road for electric-vehicle subsidies

When the Alberta government announced its 2024 budget at the end of February, one item in particular raised eyebrows: a new registration fee of $200 on electric vehicles, beginning in January, 2025.

The justification was simple: EVs don’t pay fuel taxes when they are charged at home, which they often are. EVs are also, on average, heavier than their combustion engine counterparts, and thus, on average, more damaging to roads. Absent a clear usage metric by which to charge EV drivers for their share of road maintenance costs, an annual flat fee would be imposed.

by Blazingcatfur•March 21, 2024March 20, 2024•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in just one country

All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide.

The vast majority of these cities — 83 — were in India and all exceeded the World Health Organization’s air quality guidelines by more than 10 times, according to the report by IQAir, which tracks air quality worldwide.

The study looked specifically at fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, which is the tiniest pollutant but also the most dangerous. Only 9% of more than 7,800 cities analyzed globally recorded air quality that met WHO’s standard, which says average annual levels of PM2.5 should not exceed 5 micrograms per cubic meter.

Justin will have no choice but to raise the Carbon tax now!

h/t DS

by Blazingcatfur•March 20, 2024March 20, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Stop the carbon price increase? Poilievre threatens non-confidence

A Conservative motion to “spike the hike” and stop the April 1 carbon price increase will face a vote in the House of Commons on Wednesday as the environment minister says, “We can’t put climate change on pause.”

Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre introduced a motion earlier this week to stop the annual carbon price increase, which is set to rise to $80 per tonne on April 1 from the current $65 per tonne.

Performative but necessary I suppose.

by Blazingcatfur•March 20, 2024March 20, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Trudeau’s electric vehicle mandate could cause Canada’s power grid to collapse, analysis shows

A noted fiscally conservative think tank warned that a proposed federal mandate from the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to ban the sale of new gasoline/diesel-only powered cars after 2035 and allow electric-only sales is an unrealistic fantasy that would cause massive chaos by threatening to collapse the nation’s power grids.

“Requiring all new vehicle sales in Canada to be electric in just 11 years means the provinces need to substantially increase their power generation capabilities, and adding the equivalent of 10 new mega-dams or 13 new gas plants in such a short timeline isn’t realistic or feasible,” said G. Cornelis van Kooten, a Fraser Institute senior fellow and author of “Failure to Charge: A Critical Look at Canada’s EV Policy.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 20, 2024March 20, 2024•0•"Energy Matters", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "extremists", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘Absolutely fierce’: Rural revolt against solar and wind across North America, says energy analyst

The revolt isn’t popular. It’s ignored by establishment environmental groups. It’s harshly criticized by pro-renewable energy business and political leaders.

Nonetheless, the battle is on, a contest that now includes rural Albertans rising up against solar and wind developments.

“The battle in rural America and rural Canada is absolutely fierce,” American journalist and documentary filmmaker Robert Bryce told me in an interview. “These big wind and big solar companies are doing all they can to absolutely roll over small communities.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 20, 2024March 20, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Guilbeault defends carbon pricing as more provincial Liberals voice concern

As concerns about a scheduled increase to the federal carbon price grow, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says provinces are welcome to come up with their own policies, as long as the federal minimum pollution price is used.

His comments come as the Ontario Liberals are the latest provincial party to call for a change to the federal carbon price — with leader Bonnie Crombie saying a government she leads would not have a provincial carbon price similar to the federal model.

by Blazingcatfur•March 20, 2024March 19, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

14 of the 15 worst cities for air pollution in U.S. and Canada were north of the border last year: report

Thanks to wildfires, air quality in Canada is now worse than in the U.S., according to a new report.

Published Tuesday, the 6th Annual World Air Quality Report found that air quality in Canada in 2023 was worse than in the U.S. for the first time in the report’s history.

Of the 15 most polluted cities in the two countries, 14 were in Canada, led by Fort McMurray and Peace River in Alberta. Others included Yellowknife, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Canmore, Alta.

Clearly we need more carbon tax.

by Blazingcatfur•March 20, 2024March 20, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

LILLEY: Trudeau in full defensive mode to save his carbon tax hike

Justin Trudeau wants you to know that life would be a lot worse without his carbon tax rebate. The Liberals are now selling the carbon tax, and the rebate that comes with it, as an affordability message, even though the carbon tax is part of what is making everything more expensive.

by Blazingcatfur•March 20, 2024March 19, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Ottawa Gave WEF $500,000 for Report ‘Justifying’ Carbon Tax: Tory MP

Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis is criticizing the Liberal government for providing nearly half a million dollars to the World Economic Forum (WEF) to produce an environmental report promoting the carbon tax.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid the WEF nearly $500,000 “of Canadian taxpayer money for the New Nature Economy Report justifying his carbon tax,” Ms. Lewis says in a March 18 social media post. “Global interest groups should not be trusted to care about the prosperity of Canadians.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 19, 2024March 19, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Adam Pankratz: Guilbeault’s EV fantasy crashes into reality

Late last year, when Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced the Liberals’ plan to eliminate the sale of cars with internal combustion engines by 2035, a number of people, myself included, rolled their eyes at the government’s interference in the free market. Little did we know how fast the free market would slap the electric vehicle mandate back to reality, while Canadian taxpayers continue to subsidize green fantasies.

by Blazingcatfur•March 19, 2024March 19, 2024•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The great greenhouse gas numbers game

THERE is a move afoot in the western world which will permanently prevent anyone from having a new idea. It has been tried many times before, mostly successfully. It has been seen operating under the control of common-or-garden varieties of dictators, who proudly boast that 97 per cent of the population loves and agrees with them. This latest version is being disguised as a fully justifiable attempt to protect citizens from harm, the harm that comes from the viral spread of that enchantress Miss Disinformation.

by Blazingcatfur•March 19, 2024March 18, 2024•0•"Disinformation", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Conservatives request emergency debate on carbon tax hike

The Conservatives are calling for an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the Trudeau government’s scheduled increase of the federal carbon tax.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written to House Speaker Greg Fergus requesting the debate, pointing to public opposition to the hike, set to take place on April 1.

by Blazingcatfur•March 18, 2024March 17, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Natural resources minister defends carbon tax as provinces pile on

Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says provincial premiers who are calling on the government to scrap a planned increase on the carbon tax have their facts wrong.

In an interview airing Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live, Wilkinson defended the federal government’s landmark climate policy against a growing chorus of provincial leaders who hope to either delay or ditch altogether the impending April 1 increase.

“Based on the facts, the seven premiers are just wrong,” Wilkinson told guest host David Common.

by Blazingcatfur•March 18, 2024March 17, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

The carbon levy will haunt Justin Trudeau whether he raises it or not

Justin Trudeau acknowledged this week that he’s no longer popular. Hearkening back to similar comments by former prime minister Brian Mulroney, whose funeral will be held Saturday, Trudeau said, “My job is not to be popular. … My job is to do the right things for Canada now, and do the right things for Canadians a generation from now.”

Friends and foes suggest a solution to Trudeau’s popularity problem — one that may lead the Liberals towards an existential crisis in the next election — is a pause to the carbon price increase coming to Canadians’ wallets on April 1.

But Trudeau has much more to lose if he amends his government’s signature climate policy than if he stands his ground.