There was a very significant think tank report issued by the Public Policy Forum think tank on July 19. I was up until 2 am reading it, because it’s that significant. It’s called Project of the Century. It’s about this whole net zero path and doubling the grid. While I do not agree with much of it, it is the most comprehensive discussion paper I’ve seen on energy transition to date. I’m seeking permission to serialize it and republish all of it, but hitting some roadblocks. Their stated policy is “The Public Policy Forum encourages interested parties to use, in whole or in part, its publications, data, images and other content to further dialogue on public policy in Canada. We require that the PPF is properly cited and acknowledged. In all instances, the PPF would like to be notified of the use of its publications and data.” But when I asked about serializing it and publishing the entire report, I was told no, they do not give permission.
We’ll see what next week brings.
However, the report got significant attention from the government of Alberta.
Also, supposed fossil fuel subsidies are in the headlines, with the feds saying they are going to get rid of them. I’m not really sure what subsidies they’re talking about, and neither are the Conservatives. Conservative energy critic Shannon Stubbs targets federal plan to end subsidies for fossil fuel
My deepest wish is to “Transition” these Lying Liberal bastards to UNEMPLOYED! Immediately!
Fossil fuels will be with us for the foreseeable future or until Gates and his cohorts can reduce the world’s population to his magic 500 million. I doubt very many readers here are in that esteemed group.
Is the following that disruptive technology everyone worries about?
https://brilliantlightpower.com/the-green-summit-new-york-city-on-july-15th/
https://brilliantlightpower.com/
I wonder if any of them are aware of EROEI.
These are the same people that are banning assault “style” rifles, release violent criminals to the street, and want your prepubescent kids to diddle each other as if it were any other playtime activity. And if you do t like any of that they’ll dispose of you for no charge at all.
Sure, the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government should be trusted to be in charge of designing a reliable, affordable electricity expansion. I mean just look at their success in the Transmountain pipeline expansion:
“The estimated cost of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has increased once again, this time to $30.9 billion…
The new price tag is a 44 per cent increase from the $21.4 billion cost projection placed on the pipeline expansion project a year ago, and more than double an earlier estimate of $12.6 billion.”
Almost 3x over budget and years behind schedule. Money laundering and kickbacks on an industrial scale? Or just complete incompetence? Why would anyone think that “clean” energy and grid expansion wouldn’t turn out exactly the same with this government in charge.
Remember, LC., the feds have relatively little to do with the electricity system. That’s exclusively the responsibility of the Provinces. And Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, all have rather sensible conservative governments. They have all defined new electricity capacity for their provinces to come primarily from nuclear power. The Ontario government alone has committed to seven new reactors: three at the Darlington site and four large ones at the Bruce site.
Schedule? Darlington 3 completed its refurbishment more than three months ahead of schedule. Bruce Power has had similar success in refurbishing its eight reactors sequentially.
I have come to the sad realization over the past few years that constitutional rights and divisions of power means nothing in Trudeau’s Canada. The Canadian Constitution is a meaningless document that can simply be ignored or reinterpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada to align with Liberal policies.
I sincerely doubt Alberta’s and Saskatchewan’s constitutional rights will be upheld in this or any other legal proceedings. Those two governments will probably have to resort to starting a constitutional crisis and/or a separation referendum.
I would not be that depressed about matters. The Provinces can push back. The principal method has been the Notwithstanding Clause first used by Rene Levesque to set aside specific requirements of the Official Languages Act. It was used by Doug Ford in 2022 to quash a CUPE education workers strike and on a similar basis by the government of Saskatchewan in the mid-1980s. It should be noted that Justatwit was furious about the 2022 action by Ontario, particularly since he could do nothing about it.
If a province has a strong, unified government of one of the main provinces in Canada, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, BC, it can do a lot to halt federal government overreach into the jurisdiction of the provinces. The operative word is “can”. Justatwit made noises about “legislating” limits to the clause, but you cannot legislate on the constitution.
Canadians owe a great debt to Peter Loughheed for getting it inserted into the Constitution despite the opposition of Pierre.
“exclusively the responsibility of the Provinces” has never stopped the Feds from interfering…
Public funding has been showered on every hair-brained green theocracy NGO and scheme for decades to defy the laws of physics. Cold, hungry, and broke people tend to eventually react negatively to their results. The left, being generally ignorant of the income matching logic of basic accounting, consider “accelerated depreciation”, when used by an oil company, a “subsidy”. Accountants consider it a way of paying the same overall taxes on a revenue stream from a given asset “later” rather than “sooner” (treating the asset cost as more of an operating expense than a depreciating asset). Their whole “transition” (to poverty) scheme is nothing but at gun-point mandates and massive subsidies handed over to rent seekers keen on selling snake oil.
Marxists define a “subsidy” as anything short of 100% taxation.
Remind me again, why we must replace hydrocarbons? Storable, transportable, cheap energy, whos byproduct is plant food, which truly greens the earth and has nothing to do with moving earths temperature, higher or lower.
Any validation of this fraud, simply perpetuates it, And since the ultimate goal of this fraud is the subjugation of humanity, any validation of it is simply weaving the rope, which we will be hung with.
Totally agree. Don’t accept the frame that is being offered, you lose every time.
1.7 trillion?
Lol, try 17 trillion.
Minimum.
That’s saying you can even get all the materials and finished product and skilled workers.
And you still may freeze to death in the dark cold of January.
Meanwhile, SCIENCE demonstrates that the climate in the American Midwest is good and getting better.
https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/American-Midwest-and-Climate-Change-2023-June-digital.pdf
I’m not really sure what subsidies they’re talking about, and neither are the Conservatives.
Really…you don't know?
My God, it's worse than I thought. Carry on Zinchuk.
“I’m not really sure what subsidies they’re talking about, and neither are the Conservatives.”
.. one instantly comes to mind. The insane ethanol subsidy using edible corn !
In case we didn’t get the hint in the 80s, now would be a good time to unhitch from the anchor known as Canada.
I can’t afford it and I refuse to go along with it anymore.
You could always learn to code…
Nothing can be built without fossil fuels.