“Net-Zero Tyranny”

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that people would have to stop eating hamburgers because cow flatulence was an existential threat to life on Earth, most people duly chuckled. Nevertheless, AOC’s call for cow-culling was taken up by the United Nations, European Union, World Economic Forum, and “Climate Envoy” John Kerry. Protests defending farming in Holland, Ireland, and Belgium opposed these bold attacks on gentle bovines. Contrary to slanderous arguments by globalist fearmongers, cows are the solution to many of humanity’s most significant environmental problems. Here’s why.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a five-minute sit down with voters would get Canadians onboard with the federal carbon tax.

The prime minister made the comment during a recent stop at a seniors’ centre in Hanmer, Ont., near Sudbury after being asked by a senior if carbon pricing was a tax grab.

“The Conservatives have to twist themselves in knots and make [the carbon tax] sound very different than it actually is to try to get people outraged about it,” Mr. Trudeau said. “That’s the answer in two seconds. Now if I can only have five minutes to explain it like that to every Canadian, we’d be better off.”

He is delusional.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Ottawa has to take action against Saskatchewan for breaking the federal carbon-pricing law.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said last week his province would not submit the money it owed for the carbon price on natural gas as required on Feb. 29.

Ottawa’s planned increase of the federal carbon tax on April Fool’s Day is no laughing matter for more than two-thirds of Canadians.

A newly released survey from Leger found that 69 percent of poll respondents don’t support the Liberals’ plan to increase carbon pricing next month. The April 1 hike will raise carbon taxes to 17 cents per litre for gasoline, 21 cents per litre for diesel, and 15 cents per cubic metre for natural gas.

The futility of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax — increasing by 23% on April 1 — was demonstrated yet again on Friday when the International Energy Agency announced global industrial greenhouse gas emissions reached a record high in 2023.

In a story filled with all the standard climate alarmist narratives, USA Today recently reported on the rising movement by local governments in the United States to refuse to permit unwanted wind and solar industrial sites in their jurisdictions.

After setting the stage by parroting the Biden administration goals of “100 per cent clean energy by 2035, a goal that depends on the building of large-scale solar and wind,” USA Today points to the reality that such big, intrusive, ugly, and destructive industrial sites have been rejected by twice as many county governments as approved them. The writers complain that the rejections come about by some combination of “outright bans, moratoriums, construction impediments and other conditions that make green energy difficult to build,” but don’t go on to describe why the rejections are taking place.

Swaths of land in Alberta will be barred from hosting renewable power projects under sweeping new rules that will govern the industry.

The changes, set to be announced Wednesday by Premier Danielle Smith and Utilities Minister Nathan Neudorf and obtained by The Globe and Mail, are the culmination of a ban on renewable approvals that lasted almost seven months.

It’s official. Net Zero will make us poorer. A new report finds that the British government’s climate-change policies are likely to ‘make the poor poorer, and push struggling communities further into deprivation and exclusion’.

Our Journey to Net Zero, by the Institute for Community Studies (ICS), shows that the transition to Net Zero will cause a rise in unemployment, as carbon-intensive industries are forcibly restructured. Food will become more expensive. And the eco-friendly changes we’ll all be forced to make, such as insulating our homes or switching to electric cars, will be extremely difficult ’for low-income households’. The ICS concludes that the poorest 40 per cent of households are at risk of falling into ‘transition poverty’.

Dozens of French farmers on Saturday forced open an entrance gate to an agricultural show in Paris as part of their protests against European Union green policies and other measures that they say are hitting their bottom line.

Clashes broke out with riot police who were trying to restrain the farmers.

Many of them shouted and booed, calling for the resignation of French President Emmanuel Macron.

Reuters news agency reported that at least one person was arrested at the fair, which runs for nine days and attracts around 600,000 visitors.

Farmers greet Macron at agricultural fair.

Ça se tend très fortement à proximité de la déambulation d’Emmanuel Macron. pic.twitter.com/HtDxD6uZoD

— Remy Buisine (@RemyBuisine) February 24, 2024

With every passing day it becomes clearer that the Liberals have no plausible strategy to defeat Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives except to hope he defeats himself. Only a fool would discount that possibility, but in the meantime talk has understandably turned to Justin Trudeau’s “legacy.” Among the positive elements, to many eyes, is carbon pricing. Trudeau’s plan was the most ambitious, simple and principled this country had seen, it is argued, and it cost him considerable political capital.

The UK Government’s Net Zero transition policies risk making the poor poorer, a new report has found.

Research published by the Young Foundation shows that the Net Zero plan requires wholesale participation across society, failing to account for the unique needs and vulnerabilities of different communities. Thus the poorest 40% of UK households are at risk of falling into “transition poverty” under these policies — meaning they’ll struggle to meet basic needs and see a decline in quality of life under rising costs.

The poor will always suffer under Elite green-scams.

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Albertans that right-wing politicians are misleading them on the carbon tax and net-zero targets, and that the transformation of the Canadian energy sector is “not a plot by Eastern bastards” to phase out oilsands.

On Ryan Jespersen’s Real Talk show on Wednesday, Trudeau was asked if he is committed to sticking with his government’s defining environmental policy, which Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has pledged would be scrapped if he forms government after the next election.