The futility of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax — increasing by 23% on April 1 — was demonstrated yet again on Friday when the International Energy Agency announced global industrial greenhouse gas emissions reached a record high in 2023.
“Net-Zero Tyranny”
The American revolt against green energy has begun
In a story filled with all the standard climate alarmist narratives, USA Today recently reported on the rising movement by local governments in the United States to refuse to permit unwanted wind and solar industrial sites in their jurisdictions.
After setting the stage by parroting the Biden administration goals of “100 per cent clean energy by 2035, a goal that depends on the building of large-scale solar and wind,” USA Today points to the reality that such big, intrusive, ugly, and destructive industrial sites have been rejected by twice as many county governments as approved them. The writers complain that the rejections come about by some combination of “outright bans, moratoriums, construction impediments and other conditions that make green energy difficult to build,” but don’t go on to describe why the rejections are taking place.
Alberta to ban renewables on prime land, declare no-build zones for wind turbines
Swaths of land in Alberta will be barred from hosting renewable power projects under sweeping new rules that will govern the industry.
The changes, set to be announced Wednesday by Premier Danielle Smith and Utilities Minister Nathan Neudorf and obtained by The Globe and Mail, are the culmination of a ban on renewable approvals that lasted almost seven months.
Net Zero is a war on the working class
It’s official. Net Zero will make us poorer. A new report finds that the British government’s climate-change policies are likely to ‘make the poor poorer, and push struggling communities further into deprivation and exclusion’.
Our Journey to Net Zero, by the Institute for Community Studies (ICS), shows that the transition to Net Zero will cause a rise in unemployment, as carbon-intensive industries are forcibly restructured. Food will become more expensive. And the eco-friendly changes we’ll all be forced to make, such as insulating our homes or switching to electric cars, will be extremely difficult ’for low-income households’. The ICS concludes that the poorest 40 per cent of households are at risk of falling into ‘transition poverty’.
1 in 5 Canadian Households Facing ‘Energy Poverty’
As many as one in five Canadian households face “energy poverty” due to high energy costs, according to research from McGill University.
More Canadians “potentially suffer” from energy poverty than from food insecurity, with 6 to 19 percent of Canadian households affected, research from McGill University’s geography department has found.
French farmers storm Paris agriculture fair
Dozens of French farmers on Saturday forced open an entrance gate to an agricultural show in Paris as part of their protests against European Union green policies and other measures that they say are hitting their bottom line.
Clashes broke out with riot police who were trying to restrain the farmers.
Many of them shouted and booed, calling for the resignation of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Reuters news agency reported that at least one person was arrested at the fair, which runs for nine days and attracts around 600,000 visitors.
Farmers greet Macron at agricultural fair.
Ça se tend très fortement à proximité de la déambulation d’Emmanuel Macron. pic.twitter.com/HtDxD6uZoD
— Remy Buisine (@RemyBuisine) February 24, 2024
With friends like Trudeau, the carbon tax doesn’t need enemies
With every passing day it becomes clearer that the Liberals have no plausible strategy to defeat Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives except to hope he defeats himself. Only a fool would discount that possibility, but in the meantime talk has understandably turned to Justin Trudeau’s “legacy.” Among the positive elements, to many eyes, is carbon pricing. Trudeau’s plan was the most ambitious, simple and principled this country had seen, it is argued, and it cost him considerable political capital.
Net Zero threatens 40% of UK households — report
The UK Government’s Net Zero transition policies risk making the poor poorer, a new report has found.
Research published by the Young Foundation shows that the Net Zero plan requires wholesale participation across society, failing to account for the unique needs and vulnerabilities of different communities. Thus the poorest 40% of UK households are at risk of falling into “transition poverty” under these policies — meaning they’ll struggle to meet basic needs and see a decline in quality of life under rising costs.
The poor will always suffer under Elite green-scams.
Trudeau says Albertans have been misled into opposing his ‘conservative’ carbon tax
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Albertans that right-wing politicians are misleading them on the carbon tax and net-zero targets, and that the transformation of the Canadian energy sector is “not a plot by Eastern bastards” to phase out oilsands.
On Ryan Jespersen’s Real Talk show on Wednesday, Trudeau was asked if he is committed to sticking with his government’s defining environmental policy, which Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has pledged would be scrapped if he forms government after the next election.
The ‘Second Carbon Tax’ That Will Start in 2025
If Canadians are already finding prices at the gas pump high, things will get more expensive after a “second carbon tax” hits in 2025, on top of the carbon tax hike in April, warns a consumer advocate.
Ottawa’s Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR) were introduced in July 2023, and are expected to impact Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta in 2025.
GUNTER: Trudeau Liberals have become an obstacle to world investment
The world wants to invest in Canada.
We have abundant natural resources and a young and educated workforce. Infrastructure is decent enough to ensure the timely flow of goods. And when there is a dispute between signatories in a contract, the courts are predictable, equitable and honest.
Ignore the ‘Far-Right’ Slurs—The Fighting Farmers Are Simply Right
When did it become ‘far-right’ to support European farmers who are fighting for their livelihoods and rural communities? If we were to believe the mainstream media coverage of the farmers’ protests, we might expect to see them marching through Berlin or Paris in jackboots rather than their working bottes en caoutchouc (Wellingtons to us Brits).
The ‘far-right’ political libel against hard-pressed farmers is really a sign of how far the EU elites have lost touch with the reality of life for the peoples of Europe. We should ignore the slurs, and get behind the fighting farmers.
America’s EV boom goes bust! Lithium and nickel producers begin mass layoffs and pause multi-billion-dollar projects as US says no to electric car push
Americans were sold the promise that electric vehicles would bring production companies and an influx of jobs to small towns nationwide as part of a modern day goldrush.
However, as interest in EVs has slipped, lithium and nickel facilities – metals used in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles – are taking cost-cutting measures including mass layoffs and suspending operations.
The demand for electric vehicles surged in 2022, rising by 76 percent in April of that year, but by the end of 2023, the number of vehicles sold dropped to 50 percent.
EU farmers are protesting climate change regulations. Could Canadians join them?
In Poland, farmers pelted the European Union building with eggs.
In Belgium, hundreds of tractors blockaded one of the continent’s busiest ports.
“I’m a small farmer, I’m 18 years old, and I don’t know how life will turn out for me later on,” said Mattia Buzzone, a Sicilian farmer, at a protest in Rome, Italy.
Adam Pankratz: Anti-road Guilbeault drives down the slippery slope to climate tyranny
In recent years, governments are increasingly turning to a particular tool to deal with things they don’t like: the ban.
Depending on which way one leans, one may agree or disagree with a prohibition. But the practice itself is dangerous because it is an inevitable slippery slope. Once the public acquiesces to a ban or other sort of restriction, further bans are sure to follow. This was the fate of the smoking ban, which first limited cigarette smoking to outdoor areas, and has since escalated in countries like New Zealand to a permanent lifetime ban on any tobacco products for citizens born after 2009, regardless of age. This is an affront to economic freedom and consumer sovereignty.