In the financial pages, as the National Post’s ruinous editorial policy continues to bury the lead stories.
StatCan’s green-economy accounts include everything from hydro and nuclear power to services such as waste management to manufacturing clean-energy goods such as wind turbines. StatCan does not yet document the subsidies supporting these various activities. Environmental and clean-technology industries accounted for a puny 3.1 per cent of Canada’s GDP in 2017. More importantly, StatCan noted that this ratio has remained relatively stable since 2007 when the data began. The green economy’s share of GDP stagnated for 10 of the biggest years for pro-green policies and hefty government support, and against historically slow growth in the rest of the economy. If the green economy cannot flourish in these circumstances, it is doubtful it ever will.
The green economy is even less important for jobs, contributing only 1.6 per cent of total employment. If clean-tech and green-tech are the jobs of tomorrow, as their boosters tirelessly claim, then our job prospects are bleak indeed. This reflects that green energy, like all energy sources, uses more capital than labour.
Green energy is a job killer. Just ask the Europeans. We should learn from their mistakes.
We don’t have to make our own.
We do not learn from the mistakes of the EU, we refine them.
Hop on your bicycle and get down to the windmill, I hear they are hiring someone to pick up all the dead birds at the base of each windmill. Pays $16.50 an hour and it’s steady work. Must be bilingual or French.
Green energy has nothing to do with green energy. Its supposed to be a job killer.
Its pretty tough enact the agenda of controlling the worlds life blood (carbon) and as such humanity unless you can offer a solution to the “problem” of AGW – hence green energy.
Also there is no longer any such thing as a ruinous editorial policy. Government will always be there to bail them out.
“…as the National Post’s ruinous editorial policy continues to bury the lead stories…”
Here, let me finish that sentence for ya.
….Godfrey and MacLeod – heavily made up in blond wigs, red lipstick, miniskirts and high heels – continue to strut the sidewalk outside 24 Sussex Drive.
“Green economy” , let me translate that to ordinary english for you: “Graft economy”
It’s not about energy, jobs or investment. It’s stealing your money to give to politically
connected people who will kick-back money to the politicians. The circle of life.
This makes me think of the old life insurance industry about the broker selling whole life policies for people’s retirement, except it was for the salesman’s retirement.
The watermelon climate con rent seekers don’t care, no more than Lenin actually cared about the workers’ revolution, and like Vladimir, the neo-totalitarians could care less for the truly unfortunate in our society.
It’s all about them – just ask Al Gore – and a host of others – who now blames the migrant crisis on climate change.
That’s why he sold out to an oil giant, because he cares – about himself; thus hypocrisy is meaningless.
The gig is up. Lean times obviate this enviro guilt trip nonsense.
I now tell the zealots to get back to me when they find Hoffa, prove the moon landing was a fake and that 9/11 was an inside job – or prove socialism “works,” ha ha. That keeps them occupied for quite a while.
Generations of our children (now voting adults) have been brainwashed by the public school system to “believe” in a “clean”, “green”, energy future … where all the little bunnies are saved from petrochemical death. But these same public schools have taught nothing about economics (except Marxist wealth transfer) to the children. Therefore, they have all grown up to vote for fantasy, with ZERO knowledge about the economic destruction they are unleashing on themselves, and on society as a whole.
The IPCC determines clean energy to include hydro power. But not of course nuclear. Ont could have saved $B in costs and opportunity costs by simply stressing that over 75% of electricity was clean, green and reliable, that is by including nuclear in the definition. Wind power was the solution to a nonexistent problem. Ontarians will pay dearly for it for years.
It is dishonest accounting. If the Nuclear industry had to pay for their own insurance rather than every taxpayer, and if they had to pay for their own waste disposal rather than the tax payer, and if they had pay for that waste disposal for ever until the waste is no longer radioactive they would not exist. Why are those costs not in the accounting. As for so called Green Hydro Electric Generation. Quebec’s Hydro Dams create many times the CO2 and worse yet Methane than all of Alberta’s so called Dirty oil combined. Look it up. No your too lazy here it is, when is Alberta and Sask. going to demand the shutting down of Quebec Hydro and charge them massive amounts for carbon tax. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7046-hydroelectric-powers-dirty-secret-revealed/
Google Dr. Charles Till to find out more about recycling “spent” nuclear fuel rods. The technology is there, just waiting for someone to use it.
I might have my wood stove installed by February. Maybe I’ll invite my MP Catherine No-Time McKenna over for the inaugural burn.
” This reflects that green energy, like all energy sources, uses more capital than labour.”
Yes well it does not go without saying that when the “capital” comes from government tax subsidies, ie gun-to-the-head taxpayer financing, and private investment, that there is an extreme dividing line, ethically and morally speaking, between all other energy sources and “green energy”.