Keean Bexte writes in The Counter Signal
Much like in the Netherlands, Justin Trudeau is bringing in a nitrogen emissions cap that will absolutely decimate Canadian farming.
In December 2020, the Trudeau government unveiled their new climate plan, with a focus on reducing nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer by 30% below 2020 levels by 2030.
“Fertilizers play a major role in the agriculture sector’s success and have contributed to record harvests in the last decade. They have helped drive increases in Canadian crop yields, grain sales, and exports,” a news release from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada reads.
“However, nitrous oxide emissions, particularly those associated with synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use have also grown significantly. That is why the Government of Canada has set the national fertilizer emissions reduction target, which is part of the commitment to reduce total GHG emissions in Canada by 40-45% by 2030….”
https://thecountersignal.com/trudeau-nitrogen-policy-will-decimate-canadian-farming/
Bexte quotes a report from Fertilizer Canada
It is estimated that a 30% absolute emission reduction for a farmer with 1000 acres of canola and 1000 acres of wheat, stands to have their profit reduced by approximately $38,000 – $40,500/ annually.
In 2020, Western Canadian farmers planted approximately 20.8 million acres of canola. Using these values, cumulatively farm revenues from canola could be reduced by $396M – $441M on an annual basis. Wheat famers could experience a reduction of $400M.
More from Bexte
Of course, reducing nitrogen emissions released by fertilizer crucial to the survivability of the agriculture sector isn’t the only target of Trudeau’s government. Every part of the economy has been negatively impacted by Trudeau’s climate agenda.
On April 1 — the same day he gave himself a raise — Trudeau decided to go ahead and jack up the carbon tax by an additional 25%, consequently increasing the price of practically everything.
https://thecountersignal.com/trudeau-nitrogen-policy-will-decimate-canadian-farming/
Read the full article at The Counter Signal
Grrrr. Nobody voted for this; it is top-down rule.
Trudeau had a problem with the truckers; we should import some Dutch farmers’ strategies.
Castreau would double down on being green.
The enemy of canada.
At some point it will be enough and someone will remove him.
If David Suzuki can promise attacks on energy infrastructure without penalty, then I can point out the obvious end point with these Liberals.
Because Sri Lanka is such a stellar success story?
This will make the trucker’s protest look like a Santa parade in comparison. The Liberal government and their once-oil-industry-now-expanded-to-agriculture western citizen impoverishment policies are already exceedingly unpopular in Alberta and Saskatchewan. They have virtually no voice in parliament, so the only action left is confrontation….
So Trudeau, part of the “let them eat cake” Green Phonies, thinks “synthetic” nitrogen fertilizer is dangerous? Piss on it! No, literally, put natural ammonia from cow pee on as a fertilizer. I’m not actually sure this works, but I like the sound of it.
Those Down Under got it right side up!
https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-australian-tv-calls-trudeau-dutch-pm-pin-up-boys-for-wef-amid-populist-protests
Sri Lanka was another WEF failure, what they’re wanting to do globally-
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/07/the-wef-plan-for-sri-lanka/
There is no “Nitrogen Crisis”
Protesting The Non-Crisis Nitrogen “Crisis” In The Netherlands
To me, it looks like a land grab. The new landowners will, of course, not care a whit about any nitrogen issues.
My question, as someone soon to buy a manufacturing business whose primary input is pork, is what impact will this policy (if it is enacted) have on livestock farming? It seems to me this would drive up the cost of almost all farmed meat products, since grain is a staple in the diets of many (most?) farmed animals.
Utter stupidity!
Trudeau is just a puppet for Klaus Schwab!
The modern equivalent of purging the Kulaks, Holodomor sure to follow. Not to worry though the UTOPIA of non-gender based equity and inclusion is sure to follow.
Is anyone noticing a pattern here? Draconian laws are being instituted in many nations to limit Western production of critical resources. This is happening when a war is already limiting the availability of energy and food. It is pretty obvious that the few are controlling they many and are planning to collapse the system.
There have been many “Accidents” here in the USA involving food processors and now 2 gas pipelines. I contend that these were purposeful events. Read the Cloward-Piven strategy and tell me that there is no planned collapse in progress.
Wow, just as Sri Lanka is crashing, and the Dutch are protesting? It feels like some sort of James Bond international plot…
As a non-scientist, could someone explain to me the chemistry and physics that is involved here? Several online sources tell me that nitrogen is NOT as greenhouse gas. Here is one of them…
Is Nitrogen a Greenhouse Gas? – Techiescientist
“As there is no electromagnetic field surrounding the nitrogen molecule due to its symmetrical structure, as a result, it is invisible to the infrared radiations reflected from the earth’s surface i.e. it is infrared inactive and is unable to work as a greenhouse gas.”
But the link above also says…
“Nitrogen in its other forms such as nitrous oxide contributes as a greenhouse gas.”
So what supposedly is the issue here regarding the climate alarmist narrative?
The entire remaining Trudeau cabinet suffers of general anesthesia suffering from complete or partial loss of ethics and judgment. They are a bunch of bobble heads that will support any stupidity proposed b the PM’s friends in the back room. This includes the NDP caucus as well. The few decent and good ministers he had jumped boat a long time ago.
Control Nitrogen – A key strategy of the perpetual loser to reduce global population!
Intent? Contradict our Creator’s mandate:
“And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.””
Genesis 1:28
“…the Government of Canada has set the national fertilizer emissions reduction target”
Did Sri Lanka teach them nothing?
Give me a break! Justin Trudeau caught, just like Joe Biden, not following the science.
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is consider to be the fourth most significant atmospheric gas having the potential to induce greenhouse-gas-effect warming, behind water vapor, CO2 and methane.
However, that potential is just considering N2O’s LWIR absorption in isolation. But when one actually looks into the science of all greenhouse gases mixed together in the Earth’s atmosphere one sees that the LWIR absorption bands of nitrous oxide are covered by the overwhelming, broad LWIR absorption bands of water vapor and the absorption band of CO2 centered around 4 microns (see the attached figure).
N2O is a linear molecule having a relative small permanent dipole moment (0.16 Debye) compared to the non-linear water molecule that has a permanent dipole moment more than 10 times larger (1.84 Debye). This means that, molecule for molecule, H2O will interact with (i.e., absorb) much more strongly LWIR radiated off earth’s surface than will N2O.
Furthermore, N2O’s current atmospheric concentration of only ~0.3 ppmv can be compared to the overwhelming presence of water vapor (~thousands of ppm up to about 40,000 ppmv maximum) over the range of humidities seen in Earth’s atmosphere, as well as the orders of magnitude higher concentration of CO2 (at about 420 ppmv).
Considering all of the above scientific facts, the concentration of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere is just another fictitious “hobgoblin” of the type we have been warned about for many years:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
—H.L. Mencken
Green is the Colour of Hunger.
Maybe Trudeau and his political allies and supporters should just stop eating. They should lead by example to see how it works out.
Canada and the Netherlands limit food production. Russia limits Ukrainian grain exports. China causes chaos by letting a virus go. I’m sure commenters here can come up with examples from their own neck of the woods. Today’s political governments are no friends to “the people” they are supposed to serve.
Both Biden and Trudeau display a mean-spirited vindictiveness toward people in the agricultural and energy producing states and provinces. Throughout my life I’ve seen it on display occasionally among inconsequential people, like academics, but in national leaders it is a deadly personality flaw or possibly even a sign of mental illness — Stalinesque.
Slightly off topic but should be of interest to the group. Just got this notification from Texas ERCOT. Please take note of the last line-10% of nameplate capacity.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has issued a Conservation Appeal asking Texans and Texas businesses to voluntarily conserve electricity today, July 11, between 2-8 p.m. CT. ERCOT also issued a Watch for a projected reserve capacity shortage from 2-8 p.m. CT. At this time, ERCOT does not expect system-wide outages. Factors driving the need for this important action by customers include (i) record high electric demand, and (ii) wind generation coming in at less than 10% of its capacity.