“Net-Zero Tyranny”

The Alberta government has released some details of where and how it will permit wind and solar development, prohibiting it along a broad stretch of the province’s western edge, assessing its visual impact in five other large areas and restricting it on agricultural land.

“Wind projects are no longer permitted in the buffer zones due to the impact of their vertical footprint,” said Affordability and Utilities ministry spokeswoman Ashley Stevenson.

“With agricultural lands, development is still permitted as long as the project can coexist with livestock or crops.”

In a passionate defence of his carbon tax this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed he either doesn’t understand his climate change plan, or he’s just gaslighting Canadians.

Justin Trudeau had a message for anyone expecting a U-turn on the carbon tax at his press conference in Calgary: “You turn if you want to, this Liberal’s not for turning.”

Trudeau stands beside the porch pirate & tells Canadians he’s making a better future for the next generation while trying hard not to laugh when saying how great Guilbeault is.

“Nearly 60 per cent of Canadian parents are concerned about their children's financial future”-CTV pic.twitter.com/bO6ckMdw6h

— Stacey (@StaceyMonette27) March 13, 2024

Premier Doug Ford is appealing — not just publicly but also privately — to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to not increase the carbon levy April 1, warning the Liberals risk being “annihilated.”

“I do not understand for the life of me what the federal government is thinking,” the Progressive Conservative premier told reporters Wednesday in Pickering.

“If they don’t start … putting money back into people’s pockets instead of filling their pockets, guess what, they’re going to get annihilated,” he said of an election expected next year.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his goal is not to win a popularity contest as he doubled down on his government’s carbon tax despite calls from Conservatives and seven premiers, including Canada’s lone Liberal premier, asking him to halt the planned increase on April 1.

h/t DS

The countdown is on. It’s 17 days until the next potential capitulation by a government trying to plug the drain that’s sucking its re-election into a death spiral.

Expect the carbon tax boost set for April Fool’s Day to be axed. And you can credit beer for the move.

When Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland chopped a planned beer excise tax hike(opens in a new tab) to two per cent from 4.5 per cent and froze future increases until after the next election, it almost guaranteed a similar carbon tax move in the offing.

A generation of anti-hydrocarbon policies has crippled Europe’s defense capabilities.

Whatever one thinks about its causes, course, and consequences, the war in Ukraine rages on. That unavoidable fact has brought many in Europe to something of an epiphany. In late February, at a summit of European leaders in Paris, French president Emmanuel Macron asserted that “[t]his is a European war,” and asked his fellow leaders, “Should we delegate our future to the American electorate? The answer is no, whatever their vote.”

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is putting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on notice that his party plans to force “multiple votes” when the House of Commons returns, resuming its pressure campaign to see the Liberals scrap the planned April 1 carbon tax increase.

“Next week we will be forcing multiple votes in Parliament to spike Trudeau’s tax hike. The final vote will be next Thursday. Mark your calendars,” Poilievre said in a statement issued Wednesday morning.

Premier Danielle Smith gracefully responds to question on Trudeau blaming her for being problematic in the relationship with Environment Minister Steven Guileault.

“It would be a lot more constructive a relationship if we had someone pragmatic on the other side of the table.” pic.twitter.com/cxewwYc7Df

— Rowan Thee Stallion 🏇 (@canmericanized) March 13, 2024

h/t Mauser

OTTAWA—Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are launching a full-court political press against the Trudeau Liberals’ April 1 carbon price increase — and there’s already a Liberal premier signing on.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Andrew Furey — an ally of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — added his voice Tuesday to Poilievre’s demand the Liberals pause the planned increase, a request also made in the last week by Ontario’s Doug Ford, P.E.I.’s Dennis King and New Brunswick’s Blaine Higgs, all conservatives.

An advisory body that spends its time urging the UK government to do even more to get to carbon net zero tried to “kill” a negative newspaper story with “technical language.”

The story, which follows a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by The Daily Telegraph, has prompted calls for the government’s climate watchdog to be dissolved. Socially conservative commentator and editor of the similarly placed TCW website Kathy Gyngell said it was “high time” the body was “disbanded completely,” while author Steve Milloy described the disclosure as further proof that “honesty is the death of the climate hoax.”

“… We have heard this scare for at least 100 years; yet the coastal cities are still there. For some unknown reason, waves beating against sea shores causes some land to disappear. They article calls it “subsidence” but it’s just normal erosion. There is zero evidence that rising CO2, eating meating, or humanity’s use of oil, natural gas, or coal causes the oceans to move.”