Canada announced a plan to encourage farmers to reduce emissions from cattle through a credit trading system, the latest climate-change initiative introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government.
The Reducing Enteric Methane Emissions from Beef Cattle proposal would grant farmers who reduce methane emissions generated by cow burps to earn credits that can be sold to other businesses to meet their own emission targets.
A new survey has found that Canadians are feeling slightly more confident in the carbon tax’s effectiveness at combatting climate change than they were a few months ago—but uncertainty is still high.
Nanos Research surveyed more than 1,000 Canadians between Nov. 30 and Dec. 2 to gain a picture of their current views on the carbon tax.
The Canadian governments Sustainable Development Technology Fund, often referred to as a “Trudeau’s green slush fund,” is under fire yet again today.
Member of Parliament Michael Barrett this morning on Twitter has revealed that yet another member of the board of directors, Guy Ouimet, is under investigation following allegations of a conflict of interest. The investigation follows the resignation of Leah Lawrence, President and CEO of the agency, whom stepped down after it was revealed that SDTC chair Annette Verschuren had received funding from the agency for her own organization. Verschuren has also stepped down from her role with the organization.
Canada’s newest premier says that in an ideal world, Ottawa would provide his territory with a blanket exemption from the carbon tax.
“I mean, ideally, a complete exemption for the territory is what we would hope for,” said R.J. Simpson, chosen this week as premier of the Northwest Territories, in an interview Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live.
“The costs are already high — higher costs are not the solution up here.”
Every major United Nations conference on climate change ends the same way – with absurd political hype over adopting meaningless catch phrases and setting imaginary goals that its 195 member nations will then fail to achieve.
Several scientist members of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) want more influence over governments to bring about their radical and potentially deadly climate policies. “Five lead authors of IPCC reports” insisted “that scientists should be given the right to make policy prescriptions and, potentially, to oversee their implementation by the 195 states signed up to the U.N. framework convention on climate change,” The Guardian’s Arthur Neslen reported Thursday.
“At some point we need to say that if you want to achieve this aim set by policymakers then certain policies need to be implemented,” said IPCC Vice-Chair Sonia Seneviratne. The “policies” Seneviratne is referring to are “fossil fuel cuts and phaseouts,” reported Neslen.
Well, there you have it, folks. The hulking leviathan that is Canada’s climate regime is set to grow one size bigger next year with the addition of a cap-and-trade system to loom over the oil and gas industry.
The plan: cut the sector’s emissions by 35 to 38 per cent below 2019 levels by 2030 — without cutting production. Liberal members of government at Thursday’s announcement of the scheme would have you believe this is achievable, in the same way a miracle diet might promise extreme weight loss without cutting calorie intake.
Has there ever been a more out-of-touch federal government than the Trudeau Liberals?
Their wobbly perception caught up to them this week in Dubai, host of latest world climate conference. There in the capital of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, economic and political reality crashed into alarmist fantasies, not to mention the laughable schemes of Trudeau’s most zealous climate activist, Environment Minister Steve Guilbeault.
The dark days of the 1980s National Energy Program (NEP) are back.
Not since Pierre Trudeau’s massive cash grab of oil-and-gas revenues and power grab for constitutional jurisdiction, has Ottawa so blatantly singled out one province and one industry for attack.
The power grid that took more than a century to build will have to double its capacity in just 30 years. That will cost. Who’s paying?
What would happen to your electricity bill if all your neighbours started driving electric vehicles (EVs)? This is not a hypothetical question. The federal government’s plan is for Canadians to be driving EVs en masse in a little more than a decade. Ottawa has banned the sale of new gas-powered passenger vehicles as of 2035 and the government has committed tens of billions of taxpayer dollars in grants and incentives to the makers of EV batteries.
We are a nation governed by high school students. Stupid high school students.
Following the federal government’s announcement of a regulatory framework to cap oil and gas emissions by 35 to 38 percent below 2019 levels, the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan have indicated they will fight back against the policy and protect their “constitutional right” to develop their own energy sectors.
“The recent announcement on what they are calling an emissions cap, but today’s announced de facto production cap on Alberta’s oil and gas sector amounts to an intentional attack by the federal government on the economy of Alberta and the financial well-being of millions of Albertans and Canadians,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said during a press conference shortly after the Dec. 7 announcement.
OTTAWA — The federal government’s plan for capping emissions in the oil and gas sector, announced Thursday to coincide with the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, wasn’t as bad as Alberta’s worst fears but still earned a fiery rebuke from the province’s premier.
The policy, which aims to cap 2030 emissions at 35 to 38 per cent below 2019 levels, may be symbolic of the Liberal government’s declining zeal for what was once its flagship policy: the carbon tax.
Say “verabschiedung” to the magical woodlands that inspired the backdrop for many a Grimm’s fairy tale—or I suppose more appropriately given the shift in demographics, “مع السلامة”—as the German government has officially commenced a controversial deforestation initiative.
My colleague Monica Showalter wrote an excellent and in-depth analysis almost two years ago on the government’s proposal to axe large swathes of Germany’s most famous, and “1,000-year-old” forest to make way for wind turbines—which you can read here—and the project has finally commenced.
Twitter Files journalist Michael Shellenberger rebuked leftist billionaires who oppose both popular sources of energy and their most effective replacements during a conversation with independent journalist Tucker Carlson.
Why does it seem that every time Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault have a big environmental announcement to make — that affects the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Alberta workers and small businesspeople — they make those announcements outside the country? The latest example was Guilbeault’s release of stringent new methane emission regulations announced Monday.
