There was a time, not long ago, when Ontario Premier Doug Ford seemed skeptical about government’s ability to lead us to an emissions-free future. He was the guy who scrapped the province’s cap-and-trade emissions reduction system, cancelled government subsidies for electric car buyers, fought the federal carbon tax and undermined it by reducing the province’s own gasoline taxes.
AP takes millions from groups leveraged in green investments to promote the need for green investments.
The Associated Press revealed last year that it had scored $8 million to promote claims of global warming. The AP impartially described this massive conflict of interest as an illustration of “how philanthropy has swiftly become an important new funding source for journalism”.
“This far-reaching initiative will transform how we cover the climate story,” its executive editor claimed. That is no doubt true. And an incredibly damaging admission.
Early in the summer of 2021, Canada’s nuclear safety regulator received alarming news.
Inspections had revealed that two pressure tubes from different reactors at Canada’s largest nuclear power plant, the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, had deteriorated far more quickly than expected. This meant the station’s operator, Bruce Power, had violated the terms of its operating licence. The revelation put the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in a tight spot. How were its leaders to respond?
Pressure tubes are commonly described as the heart of the CANDU reactor, Canada’s homegrown nuclear reactor design. The tubes contain uranium fuel bundles and heavy water, which serves as coolant.
We can barely keep current infrastructure working yet Junior assures us everything will be just dandy in Electric-La-La-Land.
The Liberal government is aiming to move forward early this year with its “just transition” legislation intended to help workers in Canada’s oil and gas sector to move into green energy jobs, according to Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson.
“I said it many times publicly that I do not believe that the challenge we are going to face is that there are workers who are displaced that will not find other good-paying jobs,” Wilkinson told CBC News. “I am actually quite worried that there are so many opportunities … we will not have enough workers to fill the jobs.”
A recently proposed federal mandate that would require all vehicles sold in Canada to be electric by the year 2035 will cost at least $99 billion, according to new government figures.
“The proposed amendments are expected to lead to a loss of consumer choice as the non-zero emission vehicles which are preferred by some will eventually be phased out of the light duty vehicle market,” wrote Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department in a regulatory notice on Dec. 31, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
These morons are making stupid decisions that will endanger your future.
.@EnvironmentCa says lightbulbs endorsed by cabinet & @DavidSuzuki as good for #ClimateChange will be banned within the year due to mercury poisoning. https://t.co/T4tFEhUYhU #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/IOdvDydUfu
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) January 3, 2023
Earth is headed for a sixth extinction, warned biologist Paul Ehrlich on “60 Minutes” this Sunday. And since Ehrlich has predicted about 20 extinctions over the past 60 years, he’s a leading expert on the issue.
An American start-up has launched to make the controversial process of solar geoengineering a reality.
Make Sunsets claims to have already sent two balloons into the stratosphere to inject sulphur dioxide, intended to reflect the heat of the sun and cool everything under the man-made cloud.
“We make reflective, high-altitude, biodegradable clouds that cool the planet. Mimicking natural processes, our ‘shiny clouds’ are going to prevent catastrophic global warming,” the company explains on its website. “Specifically: we release a natural compound via reusable balloons to create reflective clouds in the stratosphere.”
“The real issue Mr Toyoda has opened up is this: Western societies are charging into the electrification of transport and heating without actually providing the electricity. This cannot be wished away.
In January, the then secretary of state for trade, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, told Parliament that “we are going to be requiring up to four times as much electricity” to meet demand for electrified heating and transport. Yet we are not building four times as much electric generation capacity.”
Insisting on less efficient production methods at a time of shortage is perverse
In the midst of the current global energy crisis, it can be helpful to look at how past societies dealt with similar problems. It is almost forgotten today but, as the author Vaclav Smil has pointed out in his most recent book, the industrialised world at the end of the 19th century was on the brink of serious food shortages, as the combined populations of Europe and North America grew from 300 million to 500 million between 1850 and 1900. Farmland became short in supply, so the only way to avoid a Malthusian nightmare of mass starvation was to find ways to increase agricultural output per acre.
Nothing more horrifying than a chirpy Energy Secretary tweet first thing in the morning. Especially when it contains the trifecta of bad news for taxpayers from one of the denser members of the Biden administration’s stable of lackluster cabinet mannequins…
As we enter a new year, it’s worth remembering that Canada is amid-sized economy that relies heavily on international trade forits prosperity. But what exactly does Canada sell to the rest of the world? Which industry sectors drive the exports that play a vital role in sustaining our country’s high living standards?
OTTAWA — Earlier this year, the first fully electric vehicle built in Canada rolled off an assembly line in Ingersoll, Ont.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford were on hand as GM’s Brightdrop division rolled out an electric delivery van and announced a major order from courier company DHL. Getting GM to make the van in Ingersoll, and keeping the 400 jobs there came at a cost of over $500 million split between Ontario and the federal government.
A VERY EXPENSIVE, VERY BIG LIE.
Lawrence Williams’ first winter as the new owner of an electric vehicle went well. Unfortunately for the Beacon Hill resident, this winter isn’t looking as good.
Do you really want EV’S in your underground parking? If one goes up they can burn for hours.
Five years ago I took the plunge and became a minivan owner and I’ll never forget what the shopping experience told me about electric vehicles (EVs).
We bought the minivan because it was what our growing family needed at the time. I was originally hoping to get an SUV—cooler than a van!—but the storage and seat arrangements just didn’t fit our requirements.
Decades of failed energy policies came home to roost this year.
Most Britons probably didn’t realise at the time just how close we came to blackouts this year. Parts of London were just inches away from running out of power back in the summer. The National Grid, out of sheer desperation, was forced to fork out an astonishing £9,700 per megawatt hour to secure emergency supplies from abroad – over 5,000 per cent the usual price. That close shave with a blackout was the energy crisis in a microcosm. An insecure supply of energy has been unable to keep up with demand, pushing up prices to new eye-watering levels.
