Labour’s accelerated net zero drive will create more than 170,000 new jobs in China, according to analysis by the Tories.
The Conservatives said Ed Miliband’s plans would spark a boom in imports of wind turbines and solar panels that would profit Beijing.
The Climate Secretary has put a pledge to make the energy grid carbon neutral by the end of the decade at the centre of his net zero drive.
For nearly a decade, one organization has led the crusade against what it has deemed to be ineffective climate policy in Canada.
The work done by Alberta-based Modern Miracle Network has had a tangible impact on the discourse both at a governmental and civilian level, with more and more politicians and ordinary Canadian opposing the carbon tax in favour of solutions it has promoted.
Nationalism will rise from the ashes
“Today’s Germany is the best Germany the world has seen.” So effused the Washington Post columnist George F. Will five long years ago. It’s hard to imagine anyone — even a German — writing those words today. The country is in crisis. On Monday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a humiliating no-confidence vote, and now Germany is hurtling towards a divisive snap election in February. The nation’s economy has barely grown since 2018, and it is de-industrialising at an alarming rate. The unfolding calamity represents a strategic opening for China and Russia which the West cannot afford to ignore.
At the root of Germany’s industrial woes is electricity, which is now nearly twice as expensive as it is for their American counterparts, and three times more expensive than in China. Prices have been rising since the early 2000s, but a policy embraced by the German government in 2011, following the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, sealed the nation’s fate. The proponents of the Energiewende (“energy revolution”) policy made the astonishing argument that Germany could rapidly abandon both fossil fuels and nuclear energy without losing its industrial edge. This was, as one Oxford study put it, a “gamble”. Or a game of Russian roulette, a cynic might have added.
OTTAWA — The federal government has pushed its target to achieve a net-zero electricity grid to 2050.
The government had previously aimed to fully decarbonize electricity grids by 2035.
But some provinces, namely Alberta and Saskatchewan, said that was simply not doable.
The Lion Electric Co. says it expects to seek protection from creditors under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act.
The electric school bus maker says it has defaulted on its debt and is in talks with its senior lenders to obtain additional funds for a new debtor-in-possession credit facility.
It says it plans to restructure its business and pursue a formal sales and investment solicitation process.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has spoken out against the carbon tax for the umpteenth time.
Smith said the Alberta government is proud Albertans pay the lowest overall taxes in Canada and is working towards bringing in more income tax relief in 2025 to continue to help families keep more money in their pockets.
New York and New Jersey’s turbines could devastate local habitats.
A government regulator recognizing offshore wind’s destructive environmental effects is as rare as a North Atlantic right whale. But a recent, 600-plus page report from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) admits that the offshore wind development planned for the New York Bight—the triangular area bordered by the New Jersey and Long Island coastlines—may irreversibly harm whales, commercial and recreational fisheries, and seabirds.
The BOEM report is the agency’s first to evaluate the cumulative impacts of offshore wind development. Its authors cite a wide range of potential effects, from negligible (or even beneficial) to major. Acknowledging potentially “major” harms is a radical departure from the agency’s previously accepted Environmental Impact Statements for offshore wind projects, which have always focused on the impacts of individual projects, rather than the cumulative impacts of multiple projects.
New Jersey? Maybe the drones will take out the turbines!
Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie had an epiphany: Carbon taxes are bad and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should scrap his.
After pledging last month to remove the provincial portion of the HST from home heating and hydro bills if elected, Crombie faced further pressure from taxpayers to call on Trudeau to scrap his carbon tax.
As Canada’s economy struggles under the carbon tax and threats of a production cap in Alberta, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has announced Canada will slash C02 emissions 45 to 50% below 2005 levels by 2035.
“Guilbeault is suggesting even more draconian emission reductions for Canada by 2035 and we all know that implies production cuts in Alberta,” said Calgary-based energy expert and commentator Dennis McConaghy.
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The pro-carbon tax propaganda continues.
The Toronto Star’s @aballinga reports on an unpublished, non-peer-reviewed study funded by Environment Canada, claiming the carbon tax has no impact on food prices in Canada.
Meanwhile, we have two peer-reviewed studies in high-ranking… pic.twitter.com/oxiXBTw7FU
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) December 12, 2024
The left is entirely paradoxical, and nowhere is that more obvious than the “clean” energy narrative, a truth so inconvenient that even Forbes just published a new report exposing the disconnect: “Is Clean Energy Powered By Dirty Batteries?”
Spoiler alert: Yes, that’s exactly what keeps the industry going… along with “dirty” oil, “dirty” mining, and “dirty” human slavery…
When Stefan Schreiber decided to invest in a carbon emission reduction project with a Chinese company, he was convinced he was dealing with a trustworthy business partner. “They made a very professional impression: the way they presented themselves, the way they communicated,” he said.
DW met Schreiber in a meeting room at his company’s plant in Schwedt, a town near Berlin. The office overlooked huge pipes and tanks, and trucks trundled past. Schreiber is a board member of Verbio, a German biofuel producer that also trades carbon certificates.
Earlier this year, top executives at Tesla gathered in Palo Alto to sell CEO Elon Musk on a line of compact cars that would bring the electric-vehicle revolution to budget-conscious consumers across the world. The more affordable car had long been part of Musk’s master plan for Tesla to fight climate change by “accelerat[ing] the world’s transition to sustainable energy.”
But Musk axed the proposal, amid budget constraints, according to two people close to Musk who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Instead, the billionaire green-lit a massive purchase of computer chips, in a deal worth billions intended to enhance Tesla’s luxury cars (and a humanoid robot called Optimus) with energy-intensive artificial intelligence capabilities.
The axe fell because of the limited profitability an eco-car offered not politics.
A powerful storm tore through the UK over the weekend, destroying the 190-acre Porth Wen solar farm on the island of Anglesey, North Wales.
Storm Darragh and its 155 km/h winds demolished hundreds of solar panels, which were only built two years ago.
IF I POINTED out that all dogs have four legs, then said therefore all four-legged animals are dogs, it would raise an eyebrow or two, though in these woke-soaked days some might hesitate before disagreeing. It is of course a non sequitur, a conclusion that doesn’t follow logically from the previous statement.
Here’s another one, and see if you can spot the error: we’ve been using windmills for hundreds of years, therefore we can generate constant and virtually free electricity if we put up lots of wind turbines, especially at sea, where the wind is both constant and stronger.
Ministers are forging ahead with plans to use electric vehicles (EVs) for combat on the battlefield despite warnings from military grandees that they could put the Armed Forces at risk.
The Telegraph has learnt that the Ministry of Defence will be ramping up testing of battlefield EVs next year at the Army’s Bovington Garrison in Dorset, home of the Tank Museum.
The testing, described by an insider as “putting these vehicles through their paces”, is at an experimental phase, but is an expansion of plans first mooted under the Conservative government on the development of combat EVs.
