“Net-Zero Tyranny” – Page 39

Pierre Poilievre plans to take an axe to Justin Trudeau’s climate policies and push Canada in a new direction. Here’s what we know

OTTAWA—The federal Conservatives lost the last two general elections with very different approaches to the dire threat of the climate crisis.

In 2019, under Andrew Scheer, the party gestured towards the seriousness of the challenge but offered no detailed plan to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that cause it. The centrepiece was a promise to tear down the governing Liberals’ national carbon pricing scheme — lampooned as a costly and ineffectual “tax” by the staunchly pro-fossil fuel Tories and their provincial counterparts across the country.

Green = Impoverishment

by Blazingcatfur•November 24, 2024November 24, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Canada’s EV gamble looks even more foolish with Trump retaking the White House

Ottawa and Queen’s Park bet your farm on electric vehicles and the hand they’re playing looks worse every day.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Doug Ford teamed up to hand $57 billion in electric vehicle manufacturing subsidies to wealthy auto giants like Volkswagen, Stellantis, Honda and General Motors in recent years.

by Blazingcatfur•November 22, 2024November 22, 2024•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

EV Battery Manufacturer Northvolt files for bankruptcy -Taxpayers out hundreds of millions

Northvolt, a Swedish battery maker, has filed for bankruptcy.

The company received millions from Quebec taxpayers and was promised billions from the Liberals. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau referred to the company’s Canadian activity as a “win–win–win.”

Based on photos and artist renderings found online, the company didn’t build much on its site southeast of Montreal.

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2024November 21, 2024•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau has explained his carbon tax and millions of Canadians aren’t buying it

Many defenders of Canada’s carbon tax insist it’s a great idea but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hasn’t explained it properly.

This is utter nonsense.

Trudeau’s real problem is that he has explained it and millions of Canadians are skeptical.

It’s not hard to see why.

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2024November 21, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ford to cut 14% of European jobs, blaming weak EV demand and rising competition

Ford said on Wednesday it would cut around 14% of its European workforce, blaming significant losses in recent years compounded by weak demand for electric vehicles, a lack of government support for the shift to EVs, and rising competition.

The U.S. company is the latest automaker after Nissan, Stellantis and GM to cut costs as the industry struggles with growing competition from Chinese rivals in Europe, waning demand in China, and the challenges of shifting to EVs that remain too expensive for most consumers to buy.

h/t DS

by Blazingcatfur•November 21, 2024November 20, 2024•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Colby Cosh: The impending implosion of Trudeau’s ‘win-win-win’ EV battery plant deal

Whirl with me back in time all the way to September 2023, when the federal and Quebec governments announced that they would be partnering with Swedish battery maker Northvolt to plunge headlong into the bright green future. Canada and Quebec would be laying out about $2.7 billion in capital, and more in downstream subsidies, to facilitate the construction of a vast, hypermodern battery plant in the province’s hinterland to help meet the world’s unlimited appetite for electric vehicles, creating thousands of jobs and contributing to global environmental health. “It’s a win-win-win — for workers, for communities, and for the environment,” trumpeted the prime minister. What could go wrong?

by Blazingcatfur•November 20, 2024November 20, 2024•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Is the Global Climate Change System Collapsing?

Hardly any major world leader bothered showing up to the UN’s big COP29 event in sunny Azerbaijan. (Unless you count UK PM Kier Starmer showing up along with the Taliban.)

Even before Trump takes office, there are signs that world leaders are distancing themselves from the global climate change system.

by Blazingcatfur•November 16, 2024November 15, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

McTEAGUE: Bad ideology makes Canada’s EV investment a bad idea

What does Donald Trump’s resounding win in the recent U.S. election mean for Canada? Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to have been much thought about the answer to this question in Ottawa, because the vast majority of our political and pundit class expected his opponent to be victorious. Suddenly they’re all having to process this unwelcome intrusion of reality into their narrow mental picture.

Well, what does it mean?

by Blazingcatfur•November 14, 2024November 13, 2024•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

The Draghi Report ‘To Save Europe’: Late, Confused but with Important Findings

“The future of European competitiveness,” a report by former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi published by the European Commission on September 9 “to save the European economy,” has been unanimously welcomed by the European media, as likely to propel the European Union out of the nasty rut it has been in for 20 years.

Let us humbly offer a dissenting opinion: it does not seem that Draghi’s report, even if implemented — which is doubtful — will solve anything on a European macroeconomic scale. The problem seems that Draghi refuses to take leave of the Germano-environmentalist myth of a zero-carbon Europe.

by Blazingcatfur•November 13, 2024November 13, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

President Trump: The Final Nail in the Coffin of the Global Environmental Agenda?

Another year, and another ‘Conference of the Parties’ (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will convene. The 29th COP is meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan. It started yesterday and will last for 11 days.

My view of the previous year’s UN climate jamboree, attended by a record-breaking 86,000 delegates, was realistically downbeat (some would say cynical)…

h/t DS

by Blazingcatfur•November 13, 2024November 12, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", President Trump

FOURNIER: Trudeau the irrational, asking the impossible

Canadians woke up Monday November 4th to witness two opposing national political forces on course for a head-on collision.

On the one hand, they learned that Alberta’s Premier Smith received a 91.5% rank and file mid-term confirmation that her administration was delivering on her election campaign promises at the United Conservative Party’s (UCP) annual general meeting over the weekend.

On the other hand, they witnessed Trudeau’s administration respond by demanding that the Canadian oil and gas (COG) sector reduce its CO2 emissions by 35% relative to 2019 levels by 2030.

by Blazingcatfur•November 12, 2024November 11, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Toyota USA Chief: Hey, About Those IMPOSSIBLE EV Mandates…

California’s electric vehicle mandates, which go into effect next year, are “impossible” to meet and will result in reduced choices on dealer lots.

“I have not seen a forecast by anyone,” Jack Hollis, chief operating officer of Toyota Motor North America, said on a Friday roundtable discussion, “government or private, anywhere that has told us that that number is achievable. At this point, it looks impossible.”

by Blazingcatfur•November 11, 2024November 11, 2024•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

How much does Canada owe in climate aid? How bout Zero? Zip? Nada?

How much does Canada owe in climate aid? A trillion-dollar question headlines COP29

This year’s international climate talks are expected to be headlined by fraught negotiations over how Canada and other wealthy countries, who have contributed a disproportionate share of planet-warming emissions, should financially compensate other nations in their fight to tackle climate change.

Many pressing questions for negotiators are on the table: How much should those wealthy countries pay? Which countries will have to contribute? And how should the money be provided?

by Blazingcatfur•November 11, 2024November 11, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

GOLDSTEIN: How global warming fried the Trudeau Liberals

Ever since coming to power in 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have fervently believed their climate change and carbon tax policies would make the Conservatives unelectable, as long as Canada’s official opposition party refused to come up with its own plan.

by Blazingcatfur•November 10, 2024November 10, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trudeau’s environmental regulations stifling his environmental agenda

Under the Trudeau government of the last nine years, Canada has been locked into an extreme regime of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission controls meant to make Canada a “net-zero” emitter of GHGs by 2050, meaning Canada cannot emit more GHG into the air than Canada’s forests, agriculture and ecosystems draw out of the air on an annual basis.

by Blazingcatfur•November 7, 2024November 7, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government