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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Economist worries that Canadians are electing powerful state politicians opposed to Trudeau climate policies.
Can Ontario’s new leader wreck Canada’s climate-change plan?
If Alberta supports him, he might do
The Economist explains
Jun 27th 2018 by M.D. | OTTAWADOUG FORD says his first official act as leader of Canada’s most populous province, Ontario, will be to kill the cap-and-trade programme put in place by the Liberal government that his Progressive Conservatives defeated earlier this month. As of June 29th, the date of the handover, Mr Ford promises that what he describes as “the cap-and-trade carbon tax” will be gone. The climate-change programme is provincial policy, but it also forms part of Canada’s national plan, which crucially depends on each of the 10 provinces and three territories reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. In withdrawing Ontario, the second-largest emitter after energy-rich Alberta, will Mr Ford wreck the national climate-change plan?
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Polls indicate the United Conservative Party led by Jason Kenney will replace the climate-friendly New Democratic government in Alberta next year. Mr Kenney is promising to end Alberta’s climate-change plan. Imposing a carbon tax on Canada’s largest province will be tough. Taking on Alberta at the same time could well prove impossible.
Greens cannot win, because green victories are self defeating.
I have got no doubt Canadians would love to move to a green energy future. Who wouldn’t want a magic source of energy which keeps people warm in winter without polluting the Earth?
Trudeau won with a promise to kickstart Canada’s green energy revolution. But all Canadians have seen is higher costs, job losses and precious little green progress.
For believers in green energy, people who after all the disappointments still genuinely believe green energy is a viable replacement for fossil fuels, the failure must somehow be Trudeau’s fault. Only an incompetent could fail to realise our inevitable low cost green future.
People who aren’t blinded by dogma are aware that green energy is not a viable replacement for fossil fuel. Even green energy advocates who make a genuine effort to investigate the issue, like Google Engineers in 2014, discover to their horror that there is no viable route to affordable green energy using anything remotely resembling current technology.
Believers will continue to be swept up by the lies and false promises, but green victories are short lived, and always end in disappointment. The growing Canadian revolution against Trudeau’s green fanaticism was inevitable.
Please someone. Tell me how a factory which uses white hot gas flames to melt, bend and shape could possibly function without fossil fuel.
Yes , an industrial kiln that is used to make cement, lime, refractory materiels, metakaolin,titanium dioxide, vermiculite,iron ore pellets, aluminum oxide, ….etc would need a fossil fuel.
Plenty of kilns use electricity. As a potter I had 2 using a total of 90 kw when on (they cycle on and off to maintain the set point). The meter spun at supersonic speeds. Industrial kilns use fossil fuel because it’s cheaper not because it’s the only possible choice.
I think left leaning politicians use virtue signalling to raise taxes and provide additional services with those taxes. Then right leaning people come in and cut taxes and those services that help a few people. They are portrayed as monsters for doing so of course.
The conservative moto should be “Taking less so you keep more”
Ex-Morgan Stanley advisors sentenced to prison for wind energy fraud.
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1JO39C
Here is the original story…
https://nypost.com/2018/01/31/ex-morgan-stanley-advisers-used-clients-cash-to-fund-wind-farm-project-feds/
NOKO, the leader in preventing “Climate Change”. If only Canada had a government like NOKO! The Dear Leader could save the people from themselves. How dare the voters go against SCIENCE! Who told them they could have a say in how they are governed? It’s a conspiracy! The oil and coal companies are telling them how to vote! Let’s make it a crime against humanity to disagree with the settled science of AGW.
( Will I get into trouble for adding a sarc…. all of the above are sentiments and ideas that the supporters of AGW have presented)
There are now EU requirements for recycling of all consumer products. When crystalline silicon solar panels are recycled to completion, as required to recover the resource, they no longer have a net positive power output. It takes more energy to deconstruct a solar panel than it took to construct it in the first place. Since Canada is basically mimic-ing the EU “environmental” regulations, they are doomed to another green failure, especially at the far northern lattitudes of the great white north.
The green experiment has failed.
Putting a tax on carbon would bring in a lot of revenue to the government (mostly from the middle class) and take the pressure off of taxing the rich.
Why do leftists want to make life easier for the rich and help preserve their wealth? Thought they were the party of the little guy?
If these Bozos knew anything about future energy technology, they would be supporting Canada’s
support for molten salt small nuclear reactors.They are the solution and are not far away.
Trudeau recently approved recreational Cannabis for Canada, effective in October. That might make him a few friends.
The question being, will those new friends be too stoned to vote come poll day?
Solar power is only in the energy mix because of government subsidies. Without subsidies, solar is a non-starter and will remain a non-starter for decades. A carbon tax is simply passed on to the Canadian people, essentially, a redistribution of wealth that produces nothing of value in return. I would not expect the pockets of the Canadian people to be picked so easily. One can only hope the Mr. Ford can kill the cap-and-trade program, the sooner the better.
Caltech’s Nate Lewis, Argyros Professor of Chemistry, whose work is at the leading edge of research on solar power, has said publicly that “I need to dissuade you up front from one important notion, that some low-cost process is magically going to take us away from fossil energy within the next 20 or 30 years. That’s simply false.” Lewis estimates that population and GDP growth could triple energy demand by 2050. He has concluded that “solar is … far and away the most expensive way we have of making electricity today, with costs ranging from 25 to 50 cents per kilowatt-hour for photo-voltaic systems, that is to say solar panels. Solar thermal systems, … run 10 to 15 cents per kilowatt-hour, which is still too expensive. Nobody is going to pay that much for a substitution product, when they can get the original one for four cents a kilowatt-hour.”
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) recently predicted a century of non-warming in which CO2 does not play a significant role. CERN says that climate models used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to estimate future temperatures are too high and that the models should be redone. There is no urgency for converting prematurely to renewable energy sources. Labeling CO2 a pollutant is a huge mistake and causes research on climate change to go in the wrong direction.
A carbon tax will do absolutely nothing to prevent future climate disasters that are fantasies conceived of by some climate scientists and aided and abetted by the liberals in the mass media. The beneficiaries will be solar panel manufacturers and connected politicians. Let market forces determine when to shift to alternate energy sources. Use the money saved by killing the carbon tax to buy warm clothing for the coming Little Ice Age Two.
Canadians are becoming increasingly aware that the proposed carbon tax is nothing more than a money grab, especially since there’s no revenue-neutrality feature associated with it. Then after they hear that for Canada to meet its Paris commitments, it would have to shut down at least half of its oil&gas, transportation, agriculture and waste disposal sectors, they know there’s no way they’d be willing to face the economic consequences of such actions. But the real clincher is the fact that of the 10 leading oil producing countries , Canada would be the only one with a carbon tax. Even worse, the 4 largest greenhouse gas emitters—China, India, the US and Russia—don’t have any either. That’s when they start asking what sort of suckers are running their federal government.
Here in Ontario we now have a brand new “Progressive Conservative” government with a very substantial majority over all other parties. So for the next four years the PC government will be able to introduce all of their policies. PC leader Doug Ford has said that the first item with be to do away with Ontario’s Cap-and Trade carbon tax equivalent, and to repeal Ontario’s Green Energy Act. This act introduced by the defeated and decimated Liberal party is responsible for much of the huge increase in the price of electricity and over-supply due to uncontrolled unnecessary solar and wind power introduced into the grid and given priority over existing hydro-electric and gas generators. The next election in Alberta must be held in May 2019 or earlier. It almost certainly will result in the existing NDP government being replaced by Conservatives, who have said that Alberta’s carbon tax will be ended. The Federal Liberal government has threatened to impose a federal carbon tax on any province that doesn’t have one, but the next federal election must be held by October 2019. I’d say it’s increasingly likely that the Federal government could be replaced by Conservatives at that time, so many “climate change” and carbon tax policies in Canada may be very short lived staring now.
Canadians are nobody’s fool. Avril Lavigne is French Canadian but hardly speaks French. Get that PM Trudeau?
How poignant, Fidel Jr flying off on a massive jet while preaching scary global warming .
Ontario , Saskatchewan , and Alberta (after the next election ) will all reject the job killing meaningless carbon tax . British Columbia(BC) Liberals under Gordon Campbell rammed a “revenue neutral ‘ carbon tax fraud down BC throats. In BC you only get hard left or soft left and the Province is currently run by the three Green Party . Oh and the “revenue neutral ” and other lies didn’t last long . A general revenue cash haul that undermines competitiveness and helps the government eliminate the middle class .
The BC Liberals did however facilitate and enable the biggest casino money laundering racket for over ten years . As long as they were getting their piece of the action those hockey bags of dirty money was openly encouraged as the BC Liberals supervised $100’s of millions in crime cash .
Vancouver’s own Moonbeam wanted the greenest city and all that cash washed certainly set some records .
Will anyone miss Moonbeam South and Moonbeam North as they both float off into the sunset on their tax payer bales of cash ?
Unfortunately The Economist’s premise is that the world needs a climate change plan. If the premise is wrong or wrongly framed, their whole argument and article are meaningless. I think the whole thing is toilet paper because of the premise!