This week the UK Energy Secretary announced that the British government will remove its block on operations of the Jackdaw natural gas field, and that the gas produced there will reach British homes and businesses by the end of October. The decision took years, as UK governments and courts debated the merits of using the gas in light of Britain’s decision to adopt a net-zero economy and move away from fossil fuels.
Gas price analyst and Canadians for Affordable Energy president Dan McTeague issued a challenge to Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“I would call on Ford and Carney to sit down, and get this right, at least temporarily, to alleviate the incredible, excruciating burden fuel prices are putting on Canadians,” McTeague told the Toronto Sun.
Responding to the current global energy crisis, many Western leaders have declared that the way to remove geopolitical threats to energy security is to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. This is a grave error. It rests on the faulty assumption that renewable energy is riskless, immune to price volatility, and secure because it is produced at home.
Follow the renewable energy deals far enough, and they mostly lead back to Beijing.
Much ballyhoo has been made of the memorandum of understanding signed between Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney — affectionately known to many as “Marx Carnage.”
Alberta is bending the knee for the construction of a carbon capture plant in return for pumping oil. What could possibly go wrong?
The federal and provincial governments bet billions on the rapid rise of the electric vehicle industry. But major EV and battery projects in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia have since been delayed, cancelled, suspended, substantially changed — and in one case, gone bankrupt — as automakers and suppliers adjust to weaker-than-anticipated demand.
The latest is Volkswagen’s massive PowerCo battery plant in St. Thomas, Ont., where production has been pushed back two years to 2029, because of “evolving market demand.”
It was too much period.
Ministers with the Ontario government lined up on Friday to declare that an announcement from a Volkswagen subsidiary that it was delaying the opening of an EV battery plant in St. Thomas by two years was, in fact, good news. Great news, even.
“To me, it’s a great news story,” said Vic Fedeli, the minister for Economic Development, citing the fact that PowerCo now has a contract to begin building the facility, supported by at least $10 billion in subsidies from all levels of government, that it hopes will be ready by 2029.
The opening of a massive Volkswagen electric vehicle battery plant in southwestern Ontario has been pushed back two years until 2029.
PowerCo Canada, a subsidiary of the German automaker, says it is delaying production at the $7-billion factory in St. Thomas, Ont., in order to align the project’s timeline and product strategy with evolving market demand, technological advancements and the Volkswagen Group’s long-term strategy.
It says the later opening date will allow for next-generation battery technology while retaining the flexibility to scale over time as market conditions evolve.
Below is the current state of VW and the German auto industry. Why would they risk more in Canada?
The Perfect Storm – Chinese Decimating German Car Industry
It’s sad when some dreams crumble. I mean, it tugs at your heartstrings, seeing little crumpled faces from crushed hopes.
I don’t have that problem when Green grifting fever dreams crash and burn, though I do get a little sick to my stomach thinking of all the wasted time, money, and heartburn they caused people when failure was inevitable.
Germany has presented a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels by 2045.
Germany’s Environment Minister Carsten Schneider told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that the plan “combines independence, affordability, and climate protection.”
Europe’s largest economy is now the third country to have provided a solid plan for the phaseout — to which nearly 200 countries committed at the 2023 COP28 climate conference in Dubai — following France and the Netherlands
Germany phased out nuclear power and is currently edging toward economic collapse due to energy shortages so it makes sense to formalize national suicide.
No wonder the AfD is gaining on all fronts.
OTTAWA – David Suzuki said that when Prime Minister Mark Carney was first elected last year, he celebrated. Having met and interviewed the prime minister before, the national environmentalist icon said he knew Carney understood the challenges of climate change.
But in an interview with The Canadian Press, Suzuki said he now feels he was “wilfully blind” to Carney’s promises of action on climate, despite warnings from his longtime friend the late Stephen Lewis, who predicted the agenda of a banker — and now politician — would supersede Carney’s views on addressing climate change.
h/t Mauser
Saanich, BC, desperately needs a new fire hall. In 2019, city council approved a $26 million replacement for its aging Fire Station Two, set to open in 2023. But because the city requires that all public buildings reach a “LEED” Gold or Platinum standard of environmental efficiency, the station was to be built using trendy mass timber construction. (LEED stands for “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.”) Five years later, ground had yet to be broken, and the project was plagued by rapidly rising costs.
Weeks before the board of the Toronto Transit Commission hurried a report off the floor, in a transit yard in Philadelphia, the electric buses were on fire.
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, had fought a losing battle with its fleet of 25 Proterra Catalyst buses. Cracks kept showing up in the bodies of the buses, including to the chassis, and they seemed to defy any patching done by SEPTA’s engineers.
David Suzuki: Mark Carney’s investment summit is bound to fail unless it faces this fundamental issue
Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited 300 global CEOs, entrepreneurs and institutional financiers to a Canada Investment Summit. They collectively manage $120 trillion in global assets and the goal of the conference is to catalyze private and sovereign capital into Canadian industries. I understand the urgent need to stand up against Trump, a bullying madman, by reducing our dependence on US markets and I applaud Carney’s efforts. He’s a smart, tough guy.
German economic history can be traced through its traditional family businesses. Many of them survived wars, crises, and technological revolutions. But many of them now have little left with which to resist the destructive force of environmentalism and degrowth ideology.
Anyone searching through German economic history will eventually come across the name Coatinc Company.
The company from Siegen is, as far as the surviving documents show, the oldest German family business still in existence. Originating in 1502 from an iron-processing operation, it developed over more than five centuries into an internationally established specialist in surface finishing and hot-dip galvanizing.
Automaker Stellantis NV STLA-N says it has signed a preliminary agreement to sell its idled Brampton, Ont., assembly plant to armoured carmaker Roshel.
The Brampton factory stopped production in 2023 to retool to make the Jeep Compass, but the work was paused shortly after the U.S. placed 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian-made cars in 2025. Stellantis last year said the Compass would instead be made in the U.S., leaving the future of the plant and 2,200 laid-off workers up in the air.
