The Department of Fisheries is currently reviewing a taxpayer-funded electric auto battery factory in Quebec, owned by Northvolt, amid concerns of potential environmental impacts.
This review includes assessing the risk of wetland destruction and fish habitat harm, as first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter. Despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s previous endorsement of the Northvolt plant as “the world’s cleanest,” these concerns bring a new dimension to the project.
In a two-hour video posted on YouTube in 2021, Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam looks directly into the camera as he imparts a message to young people about the supposed reality of future climate change.
“What we are talking about here is a murder project,” he says calmly, “which is going to destroy the lives and livelihoods of your generation.”
As they were settling in to watch a hockey game on television just before 6:00 p.m. on Saturday evening, every Albertan with a cellphone received a message via the Alberta Emergency Alert system warning that record-breaking cold weather “resulting in high power demand has placed the Alberta (electric) grid at a high risk of rotating power outages.”
Far-right groups have discussed toppling the German government as they seek to harness the anger of ongoing farmer protests over subsidy cuts.
A protest took place in Berlin on Monday amid fears extremists are infiltrating the agricultural movement.
Our team Germany has been working with BBC Verify to build up a picture both online and on the ground.
While the far right is piggybacking on the row, a “Germany first” narrative appears to be gaining wider traction.
This is the same MSM technique we witnessed in Canada, one guy tries to make a poorly thought out point by waving a Nazi flag and the MSM pounces declaring all Truckers to be NAZIS.
The goal isn’t to discredit the “far right” but to discredit the farmer’s protest.
How many Swastikas have the Hamas supporters waved about? Why aren’t they called NAZIS? Why is the media for the most part treating them with Kid Gloves.
Thousands of tractors have brought Berlin’s city centre to a standstill as farmers from across Germany protested on parliament’s doorstep over rising costs and a plan to phase out agricultural fuel subsidies.
An estimated 30,000 protesters, including farmers supported by a wide range of representatives from other industries from fishing to gastronomy to logistics, blocked the streets around the government quarter on Monday with their vehicles, including lorries and forklift trucks, and even children’s toy tractors.
The global climate is always changing, but contrary to the popular narrative, the science on the exact causes is far from settled. Alarmists claim that humans burning fossil fuels for energy will catastrophically ruin the climate, and they demand a “net-zero” future to save the world.
What would happen if the climate alarmists actually succeeded in the United States?
Any feeling that the electric vehicle market was overhyped was confirmed this week when Hertz took the off-ramp on the EV highway. The car-rental giant plans to unload 20,000 cars, about a third of its American EV fleet, and make up the shortfall with regular gasoline cars.
Weak rental demand, high maintenance costs and low resale prices were behind the about-face. When Hertz began loading up on EVs – all of them Teslas – in 2021, the move was seen as a vote of confidence in zero-tailpipe-emission motoring for the masses. The reversal signals the opposite and Hertz is not alone. EV sales in North American, Europe and elsewhere are rising at ever-diminishing rates and China, the biggest EV producer, is stuffing thousands of unwanted battery-powered cars in fields, where they are left to rot.
Ryan Maue is a US weather and climate guy. From early last week he was forecasting the incoming polar vortex would bring abysmal cold to virtually all of North America. Unlike climate activists, he’s not an alarmist except when as he jokingly put it, the real ‘climate emergency’ that would unfold would be temperature in the minus 40s — which is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit — and colder!
As extreme cold temperatures hit a large part of Canada, including the Prairie provinces, the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan and Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre are ramping up their campaign against the federal carbon tax on home heating sources.
“It’s freezing in Thunder Bay and local Liberal MPs Patty Hajdu & Marcus Powlowski are making it worse,” Mr. Poilievre posted on social media on Jan. 12.
SDP Chancellor Olaf Scholz found himself the subject of a lively farmers’ picket on Thursday afternoon as the embattled German premier cold-shouldered local agricultural organisations pressuring him to speak directly to protestors.
Security was heightened ahead of Scholz’s scheduled visit to Cottbus—in a region known to be a hotbed of agrarian discontent. A police cordon prevented direct confrontation between Scholz and the farmers as hundreds lined the streets to protest the hapless chancellor, who was there to launch a new railway components factory. Convoys of tractors attempted to encircle the northeastern German town.
Green Party political efforts to spin Germany’s ongoing farmers’ demonstrations as solely caused by profiteering supermarkets have been dismissed as a cheap diversionary tactic.
On a fourth consecutive day of protests, the Green leadership responded to the farmers by blaming the greed of the country’s major supermarket chains rather than the government’s Net Zero-related policies. Green MEP Anna Cavazzini cited “market power” as causing the low prices open to German farmers. This follows crudely engineered media smears tying the demonstrations to the ‘far right.’
Flavio Volpe, head of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, believes the recent electric vehicle targets set out by Canada’s environment minister also carried this pointed message to Canada’s domestic auto industry: “Let them eat cake.”
Volpe says he has come to this conclusion because he believes those goals, which include a national target of 100 per cent zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035, cannot be met.
An overwhelming majority of Germans back the farmers’ protests despite media claims that the “far right” was co-opting the demonstrations, a tactic that was also used by the media to discredit Covid-19 demonstrations in Germany.
A new poll from INSA shows that 69 percent of Germans support the current farmers’ protests, while only 22 percent reject them. Despite one in five poll respondents saying they were directly affected by the protests, which featured tractors blockading roads and highways, the majority still gave their nod of approval.
Lenin is reported to have joked that “when German revolutionaries have to capture a railway station, they first buy platform tickets at the booking-office.” Stereotypes are dangerous things, but the claim that Germans are less prone to revolutionary outbreaks than, say, the French is not entirely without merit.
Images of farmers driving their huge tractors in long convoys along highways, blocking traffic at crossroads to protest against government policies are being shared millions of times on social media in Germany these days. Communications consultant Johannes Hillje describes this as part of a “strategic battle fought by right-wing extremist media-makers.”
Far-right activists have rallied behind the farmers’ protest on platforms such as Facebook, TikTok and X. And their comments are seen to be deliberately fanning the flames.
The German establishment is very afraid of AfD’s gains.
