35 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans”

  1. How clear cutting forests just to chip the wood ship it across the Atlantic and burn it to spin turbines is … INSANE!! And … uh … doesn’t the combustion fill the atmosphere with Co2? Pure idiocy with a ‘green’ label slapped on it.

    Your PM can stop pipelines … but he allows your forests to be flattened. Unconscionable.

    1. But it is illegal for YOU to cut down a tree.
      It is all owned property.
      Or you need a licensed person with all that safety equipment…that expires.

      1. For a time my son cut trees professionally. On electrical company jobs, he cut down everything of all sizes. Nobody cared. He had a course for oil company work that said he could only cut down up to 4 inch trees. I think it was on one pipeline that he was restricted but cheated. It was a small crew and nobody was there asking to see tickets.

    2. “Your forests?”
      “Your PM?”

      https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/26/biomass-carbon-climate-politics-477620

      “If a tree falls in a (North Carolina) forest—and then it’s driven to a mill, where it’s chopped and chipped and compressed into wood pellets, which are then driven to a port and shipped across the ocean to be burned for electricity in European power plants—does it warm the planet?”

      “Biomass power is a fast-growing $50 billion global industry, and it’s not clear whether the climate-conscious administration of President Joe Biden will try to accelerate it, discourage it or ignore it.”

      1. Cool! So we’re in competition for being the most ass-backward, FAKE-green, virtue-signaling-whilst lining (Select) pockets with paper and plastic dollars … Nations on the planet? And here I thought Canada was the undisputed champion of Green-Stupidity? At least at the Championship level of California?

    1. Jay – the USA is trying to do just that. “Left-wing activists demand Democrats exclude nuclear and carbon capture from climate bill”

      “They say policies that promote technologies such as nuclear energy and carbon capture, or allow natural gas to continue operating, harm the health of minority and poorer regions the most, as they’ll continue to breathe air polluted by power plant smokestacks or live near toxic mining sites.”. Good one!

      “You can’t fix stupid”. Ron White
      https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/05/14/left-wing-activists-demand-americans-freeze-in-the-dark-because/

  2. I wonder, how much of the lumber price rise here, is due to biofuel use in Europe. Files under “questions no correctly thinking person ever asks”.

    1. Well … I believe the cost of plywood was singlehandedly driven up by ANTIFA. An “idea” that boarded up an awful lot of storefronts. And let’s not forget BLM … and every criminal being shot, or trial verdict announced.

  3. We had a pellet mill in our area, now closed down, once the government incentives expired. It was designed exclusively to make and ship pellets to England to burn in their biomass plants to generate electricity. The company which was headquartered in California was called Rentech. I drove past it all the time on the way to camp. They made their pellets exclusively from fully mature softwood trees. like balsam. Truckload after truckload of full length trees would be delivered to the mill 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The plant had 2 massive chippers that would reduce a 3′ diameter tree over 50′ in length like balsam trees to woodchips in just a matter of a minute. I know this cause my son worked there. They had 2 of these chippers operating 24 hours a day.
    The pellets would be shipped by rail to Montreal, then on by boat to England, The perverse thing about this whole operation was the customer in England crushed the pellets back into fine sawdust upon receipt, as the power plant burned fine sawdust not pellets. I presume this was done to circumvent Canadian export laws, but that is just a guess.
    I used to wonder at the clear cutting involved just to keep this 1 plant operational.
    I remember having a discussion with a plant manager who worked at the plant. I mentioned how is it we can mechanically clear cut forests, transport them by truck, process them into pellets, ship them by rail, then on by boat to then be burned is good for CO2 emissions, but burning 30 to 250 million year old trees (coal) was bad. I got back a blank stare. lol

  4. It really is not about Fossil Fuels or co2 it is about continuing the slavery project.
    Marc Lalonde said years ago in an unguarded moment the reason for the NEP against Alberta’s oil is that Eastern Canada was not going to allow a power shift away from Ottawa and Quebec to Western Canada. The 100B sucked out of Alberta by the NEP was funneled back into Quebec to help finance Hydro Quebec. And guess what
    Justin Trudeau has done far more damage than PET ever dreamed and has been getting away with it every single day the puke Kenney has been sitting in Edmonton, every single day the useless Notley sat in Edmonton.
    https://boereport.com/2015/10/06/remember-when-albertas-economy-and-trudeau-the-elder/

    1. We might wind up doing that. The Red Chinese who come in to get our resources will be strip mining the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies for the thousand year supply of coal.

    2. Well, the population have to reach the insane greens freaks desire of 500 million or less. They will be among the first to go.

  5. Doesn’t it seem like everything in society today – right now – is either completely broken, or in the process of breaking – on it’s way to being completely broken? And stupid sh*t energy policy like this seems to be the most clear cut (NPI) example. I would imagine China and Russia are behind the scenes, paying off politicians throughout the West to enact policy, edicts, and regulations mandating this stupidity, because it all benefits them. China with their monopoly on solar panel manufacturing, and Russia with Biden trying to kill our fracking and oil sectors.

  6. Wood energy is a form of subsidized boutique energy virtue signaling. If all of Alberta’s electricity were to come from wood for example, the entire provincial allowable cut and half of BC’s would be required, completely displacing the existing forest manufacturing industry. It makes more economic sense to burn coal in Europe and scrub the stacks for pollution (not Co2). Any solution that does not bridge fossil fuels to nuclear power is deindustrializing or delaying the return to a modern clean industrial civilization after first stumbling along with unreliables and energy (and overall) poverty.

  7. Quebec is aII for “bioenergy” to save the pIanet, but they won’t Iet peopIe burn wood in their woodstoves because they are trying to save the PIanet. We reaIIy do Iive in CIown WorId.

  8. Red China has just announced that it has successfully landed a probe on Mars, as part of a plan to settle the Red Planet after they’ve finished the job of rendering Earth uninhabitable and blaming it on the blue-eyed devils.

    It wasn’t fueled by a wood stove.

  9. I have to admit I was fooled initially by the term ‘biomass’. I thought it must be some chemical reaction involving wood pulp that somehow, magically produced electricity in an ‘environmentally protective’ way. Which was no doubt the objective of the naming protocol. If they had called it for what it is, razing vast areas of boreal forest to chip it up for fuel in a much less efficient burn than coal, it would never have got off the ground. They’re all just a bunch of lying bastards.

    1. Everything, taken altogether, is nothing more or less than biomass. Gaia is biomass.
      It was a lovely day, today.
      Sunrise, sunset.
      Oh, and whatever you deem not to be biomass, well, that would be spiritual warfare.
      Peace.

      1. Gaia wants her biomass back. Not just the new stuff, the old stuff too.

        Burn more coal. Or else.

  10. So Euroweenies, with all their posturing and virtue signalling over how greenie and enviroconscious that they are, still end up burning various entities for 94% of their energy needs, with 14% of that portion burning uranium, the rest, those awful, dirty, polar bear killing, ice melting CO2 emitting dirty fuels.

    Go figure. What happened to Espana and Allemagnes wind farm experiments? Oh yeah, nearly bankrupted them…………but yeah, let’s now try it in Canaderp, maybe it will turn out differently this time!

      1. “Being a liberal means never having to say “I learned something today.”

        Yup. While being a Conservative means always having to say “We never learn.”

        Not a lot of difference, eh?

  11. There’s a reason why we never “converted” our nice wood-burning fireplace to some other form of energy: when the power goes down and the furnace (natural gas) no longer works, at least we have some heat in our home.

  12. People should just follow the Ontario model.

    “To make matters worse IESO were forced to offer surplus generation via the market and needless to say our neighbours were happy to get it for free.  We exported almost 68,000 MWh to our neighbours in New York, Quebec and Michigan presumably to avoid possible grid failure. The state of Michigan received 24,000 MWh for free.  We basically supplied about 800,000 average Michigan households (approximately 20% of Michigan households) with free electricity for the day!”

    https://parkergallantenergyperspectivesblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/15/hey-premier-ford-did-michigan-governor-whitmer-at-least-say-thanks-for-the-free-electricity-we-gave-her-april-30th/

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