An urgent safety alert has been issued at wind farms across Australia after asbestos was discovered in Chinese-made wind turbines.
The deadly material was first found in brake pads used in wind turbine tower lifts at the Goldwind Cattle Hill wind farm in central Tasmania.
WorkSafe Victoria and SafeWork NSW confirmed on Friday that white asbestos was also found at a number of wind farm sites.
h/t Patti Jo
Pitched as a great compromise for the environmentally conscious yet road-tripping driver, plug-in hybrids — or PHEVs — have a few problems.
For one, people aren’t plugging them in.
Study after study show these vehicles — which boast an electric motor for emission-free rides and a gas engine for longer range — are actually being used more in gas mode. This means they’re polluting a lot more than a customer might think.
The CBC continues to push the LPC’s EV lie.
A Norwegian company is investing $3.2 billion to build a synthetic graphite plant in southwestern Ontario.
Vianode CEO Burkhard Straube says it will construct the plant in St. Thomas, Ont., and will initially create 300 jobs and ramp up to 1,000 jobs once the plant is operating at full capacity.
Premier Doug Ford says the province is providing a $670-million loan to Vianode.
Prior to the budget vote this week, under questioning from Green Leader Elizabeth May, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared, “I can confirm to this House that we will respect our Paris commitments for climate change and we’re determined to achieve them.”
$50-bn in Subsidies has Failed to Secure EV Jobs, Investment or Future
n October 16, 2023, it was all smiles for the cameras in Loyalist Township where politicians and corporate executives gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony to build a new $2.761-billion Electric Vehicle battery parts plant. Loyalist Township, located next door to the Kingston, Ontario, is named after the Loyalists who, 250 years ago, sided with the British King against the American Revolution and crossed the St. Lawrence River to settle in Upper Canada.
The smiling politicians in Loyalist Township included Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his economic minister, Vic Fedeli, as well as Kingston’s Liberal Member of Parliament, Mark Gerretsen, and Trudeau’s federal industry minister, François-Philippe Champagne. Even the Belgian Ambassador was there. The politicians were boasting of 600 construction jobs, 700 permanent positions, and 700 student co-op placements.
Longish read but lots of good data …”communists make excellent critics but poor theorists”
For decades, the monolithic and sacrosanct international climate change hierarchy went unquestioned.
Western nations in particular spent trillions of dollars over the past half-century to subsidize expensive but erratic wind and solar energy while demonizing carbon fuels as toxic threats to the planet.
Like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion dogma, climate change orthodoxy was embedded into every aspect of Western culture, from the corporate boardroom to the university campus.
Prime Minister Mark Carney rolled out a second wave of “nation-building projects” on Thursday and an oil pipeline from Alberta was not on the list.
Patience is wearing thin in western Canada, even as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is “still working” with the Carney government to advance a bitumen pipeline to tidewater.
The COP30 climate conference got under way this week in Brazil under something of a cloud. Boycotted by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” it’s attracted less than half the attendees of the one two years ago. Whether pressured by Washington, or seizing licence from it, many countries, Canada among them, have backpedalled on their climate policies as politicians who say we can’t afford the luxury of solving climate change gain influence.
‘You talk about the UK, it’s one of the worst in the world. They believe, this nonsense, this fiction.’
President Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax.#GBNewsTrump pic.twitter.com/MrQmiflXDy
— GB News (@GBNEWS) November 15, 2025
In 2015 the newly elected Justin Trudeau government signed the Paris Climate Agreement, which commits signatory countries to “increasingly ambitious climate action” aimed at limiting the forecast increase in global average temperature to 1.5°C by the end of the century. The following year Trudeau’s Liberal government imposed the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, which included more than 50 measures aimed at “reducing carbon emissions and fostering clean technology solutions.” Key among them was economy-wide carbon “pricing” – Liberal-speak for taxes on Canada’s industries and every citizen.
OUR local shopping centre has just installed six new rapid 150 kW EV chargers to replace 50kW chargers.
With strong speculation this week that EVs will face pay-per-mile charges from 2028, these new chargers are a reminder that driving will become not only unpractical but unaffordable for anybody who does not have off-street parking. It is estimated that this is the case for at least 40 per cent of car owners across the UK.
Sweden’s pension funds are facing eye-watering losses after they invested heavily in Net Zero projects that are now going bust, leaving the retirement savings of millions at risk.
Once upon a time, Canadians were known for our prudence and good sense to such an extent that even our Liberal Party wore the mantle of fiscal responsibility.
Whatever else you might want to say about the party in the era of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, it recognized the country’s dire financial situation — back when The Wall Street Journal was referring to Canada as “an honorary member of the Third World” — as a national crisis.
Being raised in Canada taught me two enduring lessons: To care for the environment, and to contribute meaningfully to public life.
That’s why in 2023, when an unexpected call from the White House came in, I stepped forward. I was appointed by president Joe Biden, and within months began work on the historic American Climate Corps program.
In his first budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney has proposed a similar climate corps for Canada – a bold, consequential, nation-building program with deep roots and a rich legacy dating back nearly 100 years. This is exactly the kind of generational investment that young people need.
Sounds like a job application.
Canada’s new environment minister and Environment and Climate Change officials confirmed that the federal government is standing by the national climate targets previously set under Justin Trudeau.
On several occasions, Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin was asked about whether the current Liberal government was still committed to working toward the near-term targets set under the previous prime minister, particularly the 2035 emissions target.
Canada has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum of 45 per cent below 2005 by that timeline.
Residents of the ‘global north’ want their own nations put in order first
They have lost their enthusiasm for combatting climate change, and they are no longer willing to subsidise the fight against global warming. The president of the UN’s climate talks, Andre Correa do Lago, has complained that the “rich countries” of the “global north” have lost their enthusiasm for the fight to save the planet. The checkbooks are starting to close. But hold on. In reality what is so terrible about that?
As he opened the latest Cop summit, and welcomed the usual circus of virtue-signalling politicians, Correa do Lago struck a wistful tone. There is, he complained, “a reduction in enthusiasm” among the global north for fighting climate change, with the momentum moving to the “global south”.
Breaking – Thousands of Brazilian Protestors (some armed) – Storm COP 30 Climate Change Conference – Furious at all the World Elites & their Champagne Socialism Hypocrisy ‼️ pic.twitter.com/KFJaikxvrh
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) November 11, 2025
