Now that the shouting is over, you have to ask yourself what was the Trudeau government thinking when it decided to attack the credibility of Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux on the economic cost of carbon pricing?
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Guilbeault ridiculed after true cost of carbon tax revealed
After years of denying the negative impact of the carbon tax on the economy, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has released data confirming the tax is a net cost for the economy, contradicting previous claims of revenue neutrality and job creation.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the figures show the carbon tax will cut economic production by $20 billion to $30 billion annually, equivalent to $1,200 per family in extra annual costs, as noted by Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre.
Guilbeault attempted to downplay the findings.
LILLEY: Docs show Trudeau knew carbon tax would hurt economy
The Trudeau government’s own data even says the carbon tax is going to cost us big time.
Data from Environment and Climate Change Canada that the Trudeau government kept secret for years details the hit to the Canadian economy.
The data was only released Thursday after its existence was revealed by Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux.
Carbon tax will impact GDP by $25 billion in 2030, internal data released by Liberals shows
OTTAWA — The federal carbon tax will have a negative economic impact on Canada’s real gross domestic product (GDP) of $25 billion, or approximately one per cent, in 2030 according to the government’s own internal data it released on Thursday.
Those numbers, which were shared with the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) last month on the condition they remain confidential, were published as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was about to deliver a speech to call on the government to disclose them publicly.
🇨🇦🌦️Video : Pierre Poilievre calls for Steven Guilbeault to resign or be fired by the Prime Minister for lying to Canadians about the costs of the carbon tax, then covering it up.
Do you agree with Pierre? pic.twitter.com/BcxmQJv1Yf
— Bruce McGonigal (@bruce_mcgonigal) June 13, 2024
This morning, Liberals were forced to release their own economic report showing what we all knew – that the carbon tax is driving up the cost of everything and Canadian families are losing $1800 a year.
It's time for this Environment Minister to resign for misleading Canadians. pic.twitter.com/8dINU2HQL8
— Dr. Leslyn Lewis (@LeslynLewis) June 13, 2024
EV slowdown steers the world further off course from net zero
Electric vehicles have swiftly gone from a bright spot in the global climate fight to cause for concern, leading BloombergNEF to slash sales estimates and warn that the auto industry is falling further off the track toward decarbonization.
In its annual Electric Vehicle Outlook, BNEF reduced its battery-electric sales projections by 6.7 million vehicles through 2026. While the demand deceleration isn’t universal across countries and EVs will be buoyed somewhat by the resurgence of plug-in hybrids, a few Nordic countries and the state of California are the only places on pace to eliminate passenger vehicle fleet emissions by 2050.
This seems an optimistic outlook …
World faces ‘staggering’ excess of oil by end of decade, warns IEA
You Paid Hundreds of Millions for Solar Power to Wreck the Environment
Taxpayer dollars continue to go to an unreliable source of energy that often has negative environmental effects.
Your tax dollars will subsidize a solar company cutting down thousands of protected and rare Joshua trees and destroying habitat for the endangered desert tortoise to make way for a massive energy project in California.
The 2,300-acre Aratina Solar Project west of Barstow is intended to generate 530 megawatts of electricity. But it has infuriated residents with construction dust and a likely threat to centuries-old trees and endangered desert tortoises that are the official state reptile of California and Nevada, the usual environmental safeguards so prevalent in California notwithstanding.
How Jacinda Ardern left New Zealand on the brink of blackouts
Sir Keir Starmer is standing by a pledge to ban new drilling in the North Sea, despite New Zealand abandoning a similar policy amid blackout fears.
Labour’s manifesto, due out on Thursday, will feature a pledge to block all new licensing for oil and gas as one of its key energy policies.
The party “will not be issuing licences to explore new [oil and gas] fields as we accelerate to clean power”, a Labour spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.
Alberta says advisory report shows federal electricity targets are ‘reckless’
The Alberta government pointed Tuesday to a new report from a federal advisory committee, calling it proof that Ottawa should abandon its “reckless” 2035 clean electricity targets.
But the chair of the committee behind the report said its recommendations are aimed at toning down the political rhetoric around clean power and helping Ottawa and the provinces find common ground.
The federally appointed Canada Electricity Advisory Council — a group made up of industry leaders, Indigenous leaders and executives — released a report Monday with suggestions on how Ottawa can accomplish its goal of decarbonizing the country’s electricity grid.
Why greens were the biggest losers in the EU elections
The EU’s punishing climate policies are facing an almighty public backlash.
In 2019, Green parties achieved their best ever European Parliament election results. They even topped the polls in some member states, including Germany. Europe’s cultural and political elites could barely conceal their delight at the time, viewing the rising support for the Greens as an endorsement of their own managerialist mission to tackle the so-called climate emergency. The EU’s technocrats seized their chance. Within months of this alleged ‘green wave’, Brussels pushed through its Green Deal, which committed all member states to Net Zero, or carbon neutrality, by 2050. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen hailed the Green Deal at the time as ‘Europe’s man-on-the-moon moment’.
More Canadians believe Elvis is alive than believe Trudeau’s net-zero goal can be reached
More Canadians believe Elvis is still alive than the ability of the country to reach net-zero targets under the Paris Accord.
That was the message from pollster Nik Nanos who inked off the Global Energy show in Calgary on Tuesday with a warning that Canadians aren’t happy with Ottawa’s energy policies.
CBS Admits EV Complications, Says Customers Don’t Want to Be ‘Forced’
Monday’s episode of CBS Mornings included a segment on declining interest in electric vehicles. CBS admitted the complications, with correspondent Ben Tracy citing customers’ desire not to feel “forced” in their car purchases.
It’s a greenie conundrum: Massive amounts of lithium detected in ‘fracking wastewater’
Uh oh, it’s fixing to be a battle between reality and leftist ideology—but who will win?
Writing for Fox News, Charles Creitz recently reported on a very inconvenient truth, from a new study: fracking wastewater is full of lithium, making it a “promising domestic source” if tapped, and the process to extract it “reduces the cost” of traditional water decontamination efforts.
CHARLEBOIS: Europe’s agricultural uprising a warning for Canada
European politics are notoriously intricate, and the recent EU elections have highlighted a growing fatigue in the West towards socialist and urban-centric policies that impact agriculture and the agri-food sectors.
Despite climate-change hysterics, weather disasters have decreased
A recent scientific study has confirmed what climate realists have been highlighting for some time: Natural and climate-related disasters have been declining rather than increasing during the 21st century.
In a paper published this year in one of the world’s leading journals on environmental hazards, Italian scientists Gianluca Alimonti and Luigi Mariani analyzed the number and temporal trends of natural disasters reported since 1900.
Based on the best available data, the two scientists concluded the 21st century has seen “a decreasing trend [of natural disasters] to 2022” which is “characterized by a significant decline in number of events.”
European voters overwhelmingly reject ‘green’ parties
According to exit polls for the European Parliament elections, the “green” parties have received a continent-wide kick in the teeth.
While the European Parliament grew by 15 seats, the polls on June 9 suggested representatives of the green bloc dropped from 71 to 53, making them the biggest loser.
In Europe’s leading nations, Germany and France, the predicted results were abundantly clear.