All is unfolding as predicted;
[European industry commissioner Antonio Tajani] warned that Europe’s quixotic dash for renewables was pushing electricity costs to untenable levels, leaving Europe struggling to compete as America’s shale revolution cuts US natural gas prices by 80pc.
“I am in favour of a green agenda, but we can’t be religious about this. We need a new energy policy. We have to stop pretending, because we can’t sacrifice Europe’s industry for climate goals that are not realistic, and are not being enforced worldwide,” he told The Daily Telegraph during the Ambrosetti forum of global policy-makers at Lake Como.
“The loss of competitiveness is frightening,” said Paulo Savona, head of Italy’s Fondo Interbancario. “When people choose whether to invest in Europe or the US, what they think about most is the cost of energy.”
By me, and damned few others, that is.
“When people choose whether to invest in Europe or the US, what they think about most is the cost of energy.”
But it’s not like that in Ontario, though…right?
And in Australia, things are rapidly changing.
[The Australian] PUBLIC servants are drawing up plans to collapse 33 climate change schemes run by seven departments and eight agencies into just three bodies run by two departments under a substantial rewrite of the administration of carbon abatement schemes under the Coalition.
Looks like DIICCSRTE the department of everything is gone. (That’s the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education). Now the climate change programs will run under the Department of Environment and the Department of Resources and Energy.
The move is forecast to save the government tens of millions of dollars. The Coalition budgeted for savings of $7 million this financial year rising to $13m in each of the next three years for a saving of $45m across the budget period.
Alas that’s only small bucks. There are still too many Agencies to Change the Weather.
The changes will see all carbon abatement schemes run by three bodies: the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, which will be overseen by the Department of Resources and Energy; and the Clean Energy Regulator and Low Carbon Australia, which will be run by the Department of the Environment.
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/09/coalition-starts-axing-australias-carbon-bureaucrat-machinery/
And while the EU faces the ugly reality of the AGW/CC bandwagon jumping,in Canader the government promises to adopt a program more satisfying to the Yank President,Mr Obama-Green.
Of course, we over here often watch Europeans do stupid things,then copy them exactly in some mad dream that here it’ll succeed.
Kate, you are living in sanity central. We in Ontario are getting shafted by the same ridiculous policies.
Fire.Them.All.
Aussie PM Abbot famously said “Climate change is crap!” and it looks as if he is taking it that statement seriously:
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/09/coalition-starts-axing-australias-carbon-bureaucrat-machinery/#comment-1315743
EU Industry is right to be concerned about rising energy prices and its effect on competition. But, it’s the average consumer who should be rioting in the streets. They are paying inflated prices to cover both the green subsides and to subsidize electricity intensive industries.
I know many of you do not have Facebook but Lomborg had some graphs that shows the price gap between electricity production costs, industry prices and consumer prices. In Germany the difference between production cost and consumer prices is 61% and industry prices are well below the cost of electrical production. In Denmark, the gap is 75% and industry also pays reduced rates.
Between taxpayer funded bailouts and green energy, there has likely never been a more massive transfer of wealth from poor/average people to the rich and well connected. Social Justice? Not even the most deluded progressive could make this make sense.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151463324443968&set=pb.146605843967.-2207520000.1376648572.&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151467376348968&set=pb.146605843967.-2207520000.1376648572.&type=3&theater
How do you explain such things?
Europeans cant face what open immigration has done to their cultures.. Even the Union itself is in defence of European culture.. Just in case the Muslim majority gets any ideas with this democracy thing.. Mullah’s and Sharia law running Sweden.
So.. they hand it all off Brussels..
To arrogant to admit a mistake.. To proud to face the truth.. Denial, self loathing and doom open the door..
Enter the green religion that serves two purposes..
1. It punishes them for being so stupid.
2. Crashes their standard of living in the hope that all the SETTLERS will pack up and go home..
Its like playing Russian Roulette with yourself, otherwise known as suicide..
Europe is heading for war as their next option..
Is North America willing to accept all the E.U. jobs, that they are losing due to their decomposing economy?
FRACKING RIGHT, WE ARE!!!
Watch what’s coming folks . Pretty soon you yourself will be plugged in like in the Matrix by the environuts for energy.
After all why shouldn’t the government get a piece of your body’s output? Than make you pay a tax on it.
And yet there’s ol Jim Cramer of ‘Mad Money’ last night, waxing on about what a great place Europe is to invest. Always wonder with that guy.
Is he saying that, hoping there’s a sucker’s bet, to cover his own European losses, then plow it back into Americur?….never trust a skanky old hedge fund trader. Especially one who bows to Obomber!
Great presentation on the current challenges facing the EU based on their green “religion” adventure. It was presented in Calgary in June, 2013: “To Heat or Eat: Europe’s Climate Policy Fiasco” – Dr. Peiser
http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=653
Dr. Peiser is the Director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, UK.
Ontario is already pretty far down the same path. The changes to Ontario’s energy infrastructure will also have a long term negative economic impacts.
Enjoy!
Roger
You mean like, in a wood stove, to save on heating bills, right?
“But we can’t be religious about this”
You mean you didn’t know all that environmental jazz was a religion.
“We face a systemic industrial massacre,” said Antonio Tajani; but we should not forget the actual massacre, the deaths of poorer people, who cannot afford high energy costs, are also involved. This blog had on several occasions reported on Germans burning furniture and illegally cutting wood, so as to avoid freezing. Cold-related deaths in Great Britain are also well known.
Of course the consequences of an industrial massacre are many and far-ranging, of course.
Green kills.
For most of the 20th Century, Ontario had an industrial development strategy, and it was really quite simple.
Step 1, make sure that Ontario has dirt cheap electricity, cheaper than any neighbouring jurisdiction in the US.
Step 2, do that by building big generating stations (larger is always cheaper power than small stations, just ask Nova Scotia Power about the economics of Point Aconi).
Step 3, when all the cheap hydro runs out, which happened shortly after WW2, build nuclear plants.
Step 4, ensure that there’s the same low-cost electricity rate everywhere in the province.
The strategy worked for 60 years like a charm. It was demolished by the NDP (creating havoc in the nuclear generation system), the Tories by breaking up Ontario Hydro (the only entity large enough with a broad enough control to implement it) and the Liberals with their insane delusions of green power. And as a result, Ontario has endured a remorseless de-industrialization since 1990. Within a generation if not stopped and corrected, much of Ontario will look like Gary, Indiana.
The Luddites will be happy.