The working-class revolt against Net Zero

Two kinds of road-blocking are taking place in Europe right now. In the first, the sons and daughters of privilege, people with names like Edred and Tilly, are holding up traffic to put pressure on governments to speed up Net Zero. If we don’t cut carbon emissions drastically, they say in their cut-glass tones, our poor planet will be consumed in a heat death of rotten mankind’s own making.

In the second, working people – farmers, truckers, cab drivers – are clogging the streets to put pressure on governments to slow down Net Zero. Or better still, scrap it altogether. If we don’t cut out the Net Zero nonsense, say these people who make and deliver things for the Edreds and Tillys of the world, farms will close, jobs will be lost and economic precarity will intensify.

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Frankie Champagne says Stellantis boondoggle is Ford’s fault and he needs to shake down beleagured tax payers and ‘pay fair share’

Champagne says Ontario needs to ‘pay fair share’ to end ‘stalemate’ with Stellantis

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne is calling on Doug Ford’s Ontario government to pay its “fair share” of subsidies in order to break the “stalemate” that saw Stellantis halt construction of its electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont., this week.

Stellantis said it stopped construction on a portion of the plant because the federal government had not delivered on what it promised and would move to “contingency plans” should Ottawa not fulfil its negotiation commitments.

“The message to our colleagues in Ontario is: ‘pay your fair share and we will bring this stalemate, if you want, to a conclusion,'” Champagne told reporters in Seoul, Korea on Tuesday.

How many cheques can Trudeau write with our money?

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Volkswagen, then Stellantis: Billions for battery plants, but little on mines for raw material

The federal government and many provincial governments have taken some big steps to seize the potential of the green transition, most recently with the $13-billion subsidy, multiyear subsidy for the St. Thomas, Ont., Volkswagen electric-vehicle battery plant. However, this is not a financially sustainable approach.

Less than a month after that subsidy’s price tag was revealed, news emerged that Ottawa is under pressure to match it for Stellantis STLA-N -0.62%decrease
and LG Energy Solution’s Windsor, Ont., battery plant, with construction at the site halted.

Canada is not a major player in the Lithium market. Nor will it ever be, though proximity to the US will help our reserves are a fraction of Australia’s and Chile’s.

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Biden is no friend of Canada and Trudeau needs to say so

A planned electric vehicle battery plant, one of the biggest industrial investments in Canadian history is under threat due to Joe Biden. Work stopped Monday on the Stellantis-LG battery plant in Windsor, Ont., with the company saying in a statement that the Trudeau government hasn’t delivered what is needed to get the plant built.

“As of today, the Canadian government has not delivered on what was agreed to therefore Stellantis and LG Energy Solution will begin implementing their contingency plans,” the company said in a statement .

It would be easy to blame Trudeau for this mess, it would also be lazy to do so. All of this is being driven by Joe Biden, America’s most protectionist president.

Pity we don’t have a leader smart enough to call the EV craze what it is – A Scam.

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Privately, Stellantis warned Justin Trudeau it could pull out of multibillion-dollar EV deal if Ottawa doesn’t pay more

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was warned last month that auto giant Stellantis might scrap a $5-billion electric-vehicle battery factory in Windsor if Ottawa refused to match U.S.-style subsidies given to Volkswagen in St. Thomas, Ont., the Star has learned.

In a letter dated April 19, the heads of Stellantis and Korea-based LG Energy Solution — the two companies in a joint venture — told Trudeau the project was in jeopardy if he did not honour what the company says was a promise in writing to close the “competitive gap posed by the U.S. legislation.”

Stellantis upped the ante Monday in a high-stakes negotiation that has been going on for months behind closed doors and halted construction on the facility that’s supposed to open next year and employ 2,500 workers.

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Stellantis stops construction on Windsor, Ont., EV battery plant – VW Sized Handout Of Tax Payer Cash Likely Needed Says Ford

Doug Ford warns Trudeau government needs to ‘step up’ with subsidies for auto giant Stellantis

As Stellantis halted construction on its massive Windsor battery factory, Premier Doug Ford warns Ottawa has to “step up” to match subsidies given to Volkswagen in St. Thomas.

The Star revealed Friday the federal government is renegotiating with Stellantis — parent company of Chrysler, Jeep and Fiat — because the company is threatening to relocate its new electric-vehicle facility to the U.S. unless it receives the same payouts VW received.


Stellantis stops construction on Windsor, Ont., EV battery plant

One of the world’s largest automakers has stopped construction on an electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont., saying the federal government has not delivered on what was promised.

Stellantis, which makes Chrysler, Ram and Fiat cars among others, and South Korean battery-maker LG Energy Solution announced the $5-billion plant last year and said it was expected to create 2,500 jobs.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he is worried and the federal government needs to support Stellantis in the same way it did Volkswagen.

Why worry Dougie? It’s not your money.

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Poobahs in agreement: Tax Payers must fork out however many Billions it takes to please Automotive Corporate Welfare Cases

NextStar battery plant will be built: Kusmierczyk

Discussions on Stellantis’ ominous statement on negotiations concerning the $5-billion NextStar Energy battery plant under construction in Windsor involve Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Doug Ford, said Windsor-Tecumseh MP Irek Kusmierczyk (Lib) Saturday.

“It’s so important to this community, it’s so important to the thousands of workers that will have good-paying jobs here for generations to come. I know that we will get an agreement done and I know that this battery plant will be built,” said Kusmierczyk.

It just keeps getting worse. We get to pay for the batteries powering EV’s we’ll likely never be allowed to own.

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Lab-grown meat up to 25 times more costly for environment than beef

Processing alternative proteins has a large impact on global warming, study finds

Meat grown in a lab could be 25 times more costly for the environment than beef, a study has found.

‌Cultivated meat is grown using animal cells, eliminating the need for rearing and slaughtering animals.

Its backers, including the Government, say it could also reduce the emissions from meat production, particularly methane from livestock, which accounts for around six per cent of global emissions.

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The climate scaremongers: Surprise! It’s hot in Spain

THEY had a couple of hot days in Spain two weeks ago. According to the Guardian, it was a 1-in-40,000 years event, a claim based on ‘weather attribution’ computer models.

Weather attribution is a fairly new science, specifically introduced a few years ago to blame bad weather on global warming. These latest claims come, as most do, from an outfit called World Weather Attribution, (WWA), headed by climate scientists at Imperial College London who have long been at the forefront of climate alarmism.

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3 Damning Equations to Defeat Global Warming Zealots

The true economic, social, and political cost of the measures proposed by governments (in the West only) to destroy their nations’ businesses and jobs and to impoverish every household is becoming ever more visible. At last, therefore, a few brave souls in the scientific and academic communities are beginning to question what I shall call — with more than a little justification — the Communist Party line on climate change.

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Why the $13.2-billion VW subsidy is a $13.2-billion mistake

“A Canadian mining project takes between 12 to 15 years from exploration to production. Even Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson realizes this timeline needs to be shortened by reducing regulatory burden.A study by the Canada West Foundation found that, of 24 projects undergoing the federal government’s impact assessment process since 2019, not one has been completed. None has even moved past phase twoof the four–phase process.”

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The insanity of Net Zero, and how to tackle it

IT’S amazing that a country as small as the Netherlands is the world’s second-largest exporter of food, but it won’t be for much longer. The government of left-wing extremist prime minister Mark Rutte is forcing farmers dramatically to reduce their use of fertilisers, which will result in many going out of business, and is also planning compulsory purchase of farms to shut them down. This action is to implement an order from the European Commission, the reason being that fertilisers release nitrous oxide NO2 into the atmosphere and it has been designated (not proved) to be a greenhouse gas. However, the volume of NO2 in the atmosphere is 335 parts per billion (no, that’s not a typo, it’s a b). This amount is so infinitesimally small as to be virtually non-existent, yet Rutte is determined to devastate his country’s food production to reduce it. How many of those 335ppb will be eliminated by this unilateral action? The recent successes in provincial elections of the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) political party, formed only four years ago, are a positive reminder that ordinary citizens will not accept such draconian measures. Nevertheless Rutte has doubled down on the plan and on May 2 was backed by the European Commission.

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The classist war on the car

The unique freedom of car-driving is being pummelled by bourgeois anti-modernists.

Back in the early Eighties, two things revolutionised my mum’s life. The first was the appearance, nearby, of a vast supermarket. A gleaming metal-and-glass citadel of cheap, fresh produce. Imagine – bread, milk, fish, meat, fruit, veg and treats all under one roof. It was the stuff of a housewife’s dreams. The second was her first car. The rush of liberty she got from her wheezing, second-hand Ford Cortina is likely unimaginable to the 21st-century mind. Everyone has a car now, if not two. We take for granted being able to zoom everywhere, anytime, rain or shine. It was different then. The motorcar was no ordinary convenience – it was the great liberator from slog.

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