Category: Climate Cult

Sparky Car Taxes

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Aside from the alleged need to retaliate for Trump’s trade policies, there’s likely another reason for stiff tariffs on used cars imported into Canada from the US: since the federal government seems adamant that the EV sales mandates are here to stay, they have to close off the escape routes.

What was expected to be a $106,000 purchase, adding up to over $145,000 with taxes and tariffs included. And Gillespie said the unexpected costs won’t stop when the vehicle arrives.“My insurance is going to be based on $145,000,” Gillespie said.

The retaliatory tariff is aimed to de-incentivize Canadians from purchasing American-made cars.

 

Y2Kyoto: Blunder Down Under

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You can’t cheat Father Physics.

“The head of one of Australia’s biggest power retailers has warned that Australia’s energy transition is veering out of control, pointing to a major market disruption that hit New South Wales as evidence of the turmoil. During a week in which NSW agreed to extend the life of the state’s biggest coal plant, Alinta boss Jeff Dimery cited dramatic events in the market earlier in the month to argue the system was in distress.

The Australian Energy Market Operator was forced to step into the NSW market and cap wholesale prices between May 8 and 15 after a series of shocks sent costs into orbit. It’s believed to be only the second time the market operator has had to make such an intervention in NSW — the first being the energy crisis of 2022.”

[…]

“He said the energy system was getting more fragile as the addition of new clean sources of power failed to keep pace with the retirement of coal-fired generation.”

Via Doomberg.

Y2Kyoto: Run For Yer Lives!

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Roger Pielke Jr :
The figure above shows deaths from weather and climate disasters, from January to June, from 2000 to 2025. You can see that deaths are dominated by years with large events — 2008, Cyclone Nargis (~138,000 deaths, Indian Ocean); 2010, heat wave (~56,000 deaths, Russia); 2022, heat wave (>50,000 deaths, Europe).5 The little red bar on the far right of the bar graph is 2025.

Y2Kyoto: Endangerment Derangement

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Foxnews, watching from the sidelines;

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin will rescind the Obama administration’s endangerment finding declaration in the “largest deregulatory action in the history of America,” he announced Tuesday on the “Ruthless” podcast.

Zeldin joined the “Ruthless” podcast to break the news that the EPA would nix the declaration that insisted greenhouse gases like carbon monoxide and methane endanger human lives. Zeldin will officially make the announcement that will drive “a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion” later in the day in Indiana.

“A lot of people are out there listening, they might not know what the endangerment finding is. If you ask congressional Democrats to describe what it is, the left would say that it means that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, carbon dioxide is an endangerment to human health. They might say methane is a pollutant, methane is an endangerment to human health,” Zeldin said.

At least they were gracious about it.

Y2Kyoto: Walkaway

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The dumbest generation of CEO’s in history tried to appease the crocodiles:

In a rare display of corporate sanity, Suncor Energy has abruptly cut funding to a climate activist charity peddling “resilience” projects across Indigenous communities. The decision marks a welcome shift away from the company’s years-long flirtation with the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) mob.

Suncor had pledged $500,000 to The Resilience Institute, a climate group focused on adapting communities to so-called “climate risks.”

But instead of handing over the cash and patting itself on the back for more hollow virtue signalling, Suncor pulled the plug — quietly, firmly, and without apology.

EVs

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Michael Zwaagstra: Time to scrap the federal EV mandate

I have known Michael Zwaagstra for 33 years. He is one of my closest friends and more importantly among the smartest men I know. He has been writing advanced policy pieces in the education sphere since 1997. He is a senior fellow with not one but two policy think tanks, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and the Fraser Institute. His first book, What’s Wrong With Our Schools and How Can We Fix Them, is a blueprint for fixing our messed up school system. Indeed, when Bronwyn Eyre was Saskatchewan Minister of Education, she had worked on trying to address those very issues using Zwaagstra’s book for guidance.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors

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Sunnova’s Enronish Ending;

Sunnova’s bankruptcy saga reads like a sequel to Enron’s downfall, complete with glitzy deceptions and government-fueled illusions. Back in February, dealers gathered at a lavish summit, expecting praise and payments. Instead, they were fed assurances by then-CEO John Berger, an Enron alum, that funds were secure if they kept installing solar systems. But the truth was grim: Sunnova was already teetering, months behind on reimbursements, and hiding severe liquidity issues.

Things You See On CBC

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Peter Stockland- CBC and Suzuki team up to prove that neither is interested in, nor capable of change

The great hunkering mass of progressive hot air that CBC breeds into Canada’s stultifying political ecosystem seems somehow impervious to change. Its perpetual BIPOC fixations. Its quaintly Victorian upper middle class pity for the suffering masses. Above all, Mother Corp. looms lugubriously in its unwavering devotion to the debunked and defrocked doomsday cult of climate alarmists.

Sparky Car Circus

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When the Liberals abruptly cancelled EV rebates, they apparently forgot about rebate claims that hadn’t yet been submitted. Guess who’s on the hook for that.

The program provided up to $5,000 toward the purchase of a new zero-emissions vehicle. But with the abrupt suspension of the program — only three days after the government suggested it would be paused when the funds were exhausted — hundreds of dealerships were forced to swallow the cost of any rebate claims they hadn’t yet submitted.

He said that, collectively, dealers are out about $11 million.

Living on borrowed time, Ring of Fire and a pipeline to where??

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Coal Revival: From living on borrowed time to once again having a future: United Mine Workers of America Local 7606. This is a powerful story about coal, Estevan, Saskatchewan, SaskPower and Westmoreland.

Pipeline Online Podcast Ep. 13: Greg Rickford, Ontario Minister for the Ring of Fire. Are we Can’tada?

Danielle Smith and Doug Ford gave a press conference just before Bronwyn and I went online with Monday’s podcast, conveniently with the Ontario minister responsible for the Ring of Fire. Something came out of Ford that REALLY caught my eye.

He was talking about a deepwater port on James Bay. That’s the dangly part of Hudson Bay that happens to be really close, relatively speaking, to Ring of Fire.

No details have come out yet, but we have to remember this – there is no road, no railroad, no pipeline, NOTHING to James Bay. That area of northern Ontario might as well be the moon, which is why it has been so hard to get a GRAVEL road built to the Ring of Fire. I was shocked, yes, gravel. A multi billion dollar development to rival Fort McMurray and you’re going to have a gravel road???? And they talked about possibly a pipeline to said port, which will be conjured up from thin air. (Maybe they should build a paved road, first?)

What does this mean for Saskatchewan? Now there are potentially three ports in play on Hudson/James Bay? As I wrote last week, without a fleet of icebreakers at over $3 billion a pop, any port on Hudson Bay is a fool’s errand, at least for shipping oil.

But it seems Ontario is now serious about a new oil pipeline, entirely in Canada, to replace Enbridge Line 5.

And Premier Moe spoke a while back about any pipeline through Saskatchewan being automatically approved. Not sure what he meant by that, but is that why he didn’t need to take part in this press conference, since he was present at Stampede?

I didn’t have time to dig into all of this, but maybe I’ll do a column on it later this week. Here’s the Canadian Press stories about it.

Premiers Danielle Smith and Doug Ford agree to study new energy corridors, more trade

Ontario Premier Doug Ford pitches railway to Ring of Fire, Alberta is on board – Note, this is the first major rail project I’ve heard about, well, since I was born. Is this why the Sask NDP talk about rail projects, using EVRAZ steel?

Alberta to hold nuclear power consultations as reactor companies weigh opportunities

That column about Hudson Bay I referred to: Brian Zinchuk: Let’s get serious about shipping oil from Hudson Bay

I updated it with an animation of sea ice from last year to show how serious of an issue it is. https://pipeline-online-v1750862700.websitepro-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hudson-Bay-Ice-Gif.gif

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