Remember when Justin Trudeau told the German Chancellor there was “no business case” for #LNG, and instead took him to Newfoundland where they would use wind power generation to create hydrogen? It turns out there may be no business case for hydrogen.
Great Success!
Sun- Liberals’ clean energy crusade has been a super disaster
Achieving the Liberals’ 2030 target will require the equivalent of eliminating all annual emissions from Canada’s transportation and building sectors in seven years, which would inevitably cause a massive recession.
Just Because It’s Never Worked Before
Is no reason not to go all in on something.
Richard Lyon- The Iron Law of Energy
THE PREVAILING NARRATIVE in Net Zero ideology is one of a seamless “clean energy transition”. The reality is that their supposedly necessary transition is unlike any in human history because it represents a move down the energy density ladder. Properly understood, the proposal is terrifying.
Even So…
… people are still buying them.
Blacklock’s- Sales Crash Without Rebates
New electric car sales crashed without taxpayers’ rebates, Statistics Canada data showed yesterday. Dealers saw their steepest decline in sales since pandemic lockdowns.
Strong wind led to more coal usage. Go figure
How a strong wind day led to coal exceeding natural gas power generation on June 8. This story ties in wind, coal, enhanced oil recovery, nuclear and natural gas and their relationships to each other.
Climate Carney Will Punish The Peasants For This
True North Wire – EV sales plunge while gas vehicle sales surge.
New Governor, Same As The Old Governor
Want to build anything in Canada?
Better check with the climate gods first.Under the Liberals, Net Zero comes before energy, jobs, or common sense.
Canada won’t lead in anything but decline unless this ends.
Call a non-confidence vote NOW.
pic.twitter.com/jSC5tZrq0p— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) June 8, 2025
Just send the referendum to the printers already.
In mid-May, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he would support “just doing one pipe,” but only if there was “consensus.”
When he was asked this week in Saskatoon about whether his vision for “nation-building projects” included an oil pipeline, he said that any such project would need to be filled with “decarbonized” barrels of oil — a term that seemed to confuse environmentalists and oil advocates alike.”
Don’t Even Think About It
Canada, Home of Cheap Talk
As if any projects like these would ever get greenlit.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, seeking to reduce Canada’s economic ties to the United States, on Monday met the heads of the 10 provinces as part of a push to slash the time needed to approve mining and energy projects.
Several Indigenous groups – who have a major say over natural resource development on their lands – say they will oppose any attempt to trim the approval process if it infringes on their rights.
Y2Kyoto: “I see dead stations.”
The "fantasy" comment is appropriate for NOAA's imaginary "ghost station" temperature sensors — like the one at Quitman, GA — where I'm standing. First NOAA removes the thermometers and then magically fabricates its ghostly temperatures. #DOGE https://t.co/ryYnPkcle1 pic.twitter.com/5r215XGrVu
— John Shewchuk (@_ClimateCraze) June 1, 2025
Narrative Spin
The narratives spin so fast with some journalists that you just can’t keep up these days. When faced with the obvious problem that EV sales are cratering at the same time that government subsidies are evaporating, the typical response is to cite opinion polls which claim that car buyers are actually quite positive about EVs.
DesRosiers Automotive Consultants described an “astonishing” collapse in battery electric vehicle sales, adding that “stunning declines were witnessed by a plethora of BEVs, as sales plummeted across the segment.”
However, J.D. Power Canada says only 42 per cent of new vehicle shoppers likely considering an EV say Ottawa’s rebate halt had a “negative effect” on their decision. Twenty-eight per cent say the pause was “more or less neutral” in terms of swaying their intentions. J.D. Power says it collected responses from 3,979 new vehicle shoppers in March and April.
A little birdie told me, and the birdie was right…
SaskPower asked customers to reduce demand Wednesday as low wind, gas and coal issues reduce power supply
Y2Kyoto: The Government Giveth
More than $14 billion in green energy projects have been delayed or canceled so far in 2025 as the Trump administration and its allies move to roll back former President Joe Biden’s sprawling climate agenda, according to new analysis released Thursday.
Congressional Republicans are looking to restrict Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) subsidies for green projects while the Trump administration slashes big-budget climate grants, leading companies that once had big ambitions to postpone or cancel their green energy developments outright. Although many investments spurred by the IRA were canceled before 2025, $14 billion worth of projects have been canceled or delayed so far this year, with $4.5 billion nixed or pushed back in April alone, according to an analysis on projects tracked by the nonpartisan group E2 in partnership with the Clean Economy Tracker.
The Art of Distraction
Having previously changed the consumer carbon tax rate to zero, the Carney government appears to be moving to eliminate it altogether. But don’t get out the champagne just yet. The industrial carbon tax remains, and Carney’s being cagey about what might happen to it.
In March Carney used a regulation to set the price of the consumer carbon price to zero. However the government is now moving to repeal the law which enabled the policy, effectively ending it for good — along with the rebate Canadians received from it.
The pricing system for industry accounted for about 80 per cent of total emissions cuts from carbon pricing overall.
Carney has promised to strengthen the industrial policy but has not said how or when that will happen.
New Liberal Energy Minister sends different message
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, verbatim
In Pipeline Online’s continuing mission to tell you exactly what the federal Liberal government is saying on energy and environmental policy, this is the verbatim speech of the new Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson, who spoke at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce on May 23. In this case, the ministry was kind enough to provide the transcript online, indicating this is a message they really, really want to get out there.
And it is worth taking in. This guy sounds NOTHING like Wilkinson or Guilbeault. He promises reviews in 2 years, not 5. Wilkinson wanted to keep it in the ground.
You can also watch it in the link provided in the story on CPAC’s YouTube channel. I encourage you to take the time to do so. It’s cued up to start at his speech, but if you want to hear his background, which including working on the financing for the Alliance Pipeline, rewind a bit and hear a glowing introduction from the CEO of Suncor.
Notably, the Alliance Pipeline he mentioned financing was the last major pipeline project I worked on. I started work three weeks after my wedding. And out of the 12 guys on my road bore crew, I was the only one married once.
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For giggles, if you want to see who the Anti-Zinchuk is, this is a video from Markham Hislop. He posts daily videos hating everything about the Canadian energy sector, from every angle imaginable. In this video he shoots down the idea Hodgson speaks of regarding Canada becoming an energy superpower. Didn’t Harper come up with that? That’s right, he did.
It got 14000 views in less than a day, and 255 comments.
Be sure to check out the Pipeline Online Podcast at 1 p.m. Monday, May 26, live on X, LinkedIn and Facebook, with guest Ken From, former CEO of SaskEnergy, TSASK, PTRC, and Prairie Hunter Energy.
Safety Third
Y2Kyoto: Mann Up
DC Court orders climate scientist Michael Mann to pay $477,350.80 to the @ceidotorg and @Rand_Simberg in Mann’s long-running libel action.
That’s on top of the $530,000 Mann was ordered to pay to National Review in January.
Trudeau’s letters were all about climate change. Carney, not so much
Carney’s mandate letter to ministers is dramatically different than Trudeau’s, with climate change an afterthought. Trudeau mentioned climate 27 times in his letter to Steven Guilbeault, 20 times to Jonathan Wilkinson. Carney? Once, and almost in passing.
Another major nuclear announcement, this time in Tennessee, which will have impact on SaskPower’s nuclear ambitions.
Well There Goes Your Pension
Blacklock – A focus on climate change. (Paywall)
Don’t worry, at least the CEO won’t suffer.
Now what? LNG, Inflation, BC Hydro
Brian Crossman: So, we had an election. Now what?
TotalEnergies signs supply deal with proposed Ksi Lisims LNG project on B.C. coast
Inflation slows sharply to 1.7% in April as consumer carbon price ends
BC Hydro’s challenge: Powering province through surging demand, drought and trade war