The poster fish of the environmental movement have outlived their usefulness.
Wind energy companies and their foundations have donated nearly $4.7 million to at least three dozen donations to major environmental organizations. Linowes has made public a report and a database documenting the conflicts-of-interest she discovered. — The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a granting organization, took up to $1 million from wind energy companies Avangrid and Shell, and then distributed it to other environmental groups. In August 2020, the National Audubon Society received a $200,000 grant from the New England Forest and Rivers Fund. — The same year, the Nature Conservancy received a $165,218 grant from the New England Forest and Rivers Fund. The Nature Conservancy has supported offshore wind since at least 2021. — NJ Audubon has partnered with wind farm developer Atlantic Shores, a joint venture between Shell Oil and EDF Renewables. Ocean Wind, another wind energy developer, has sponsored NJ Audubon’s World Series of Birding event multiple times. The wind industry has also made hefty donations to scientific organizations.
Companies should not receive any tax benefits from donating to affiliated “foundations”, especially when those foundations use the money to bribe other “foundations” to leave the company alone
I remember back when Harper was running, one of the talking points was how subsidies and giveaways were 225 pages long, single spaced.
Must be thousands of pages now, with bigger amounts and smaller print.
The Liberals own Canada because they bought it. With your money of course.
With the appropriate handling fees/vigorish. Of course.
And don’t look too closely at the recipients and the flaming red tell.
Now, if it is your job to look and tell, one suspects that seeing one’s own name may produce lots of hypocrisy and lots of silence.
That’s your Canada.
Crooked as a dog’s hind leg and spritzed on just as often.
#Blubber Lives Don’t Matter.
Please … “Poster Mammals”.
I’m old enough to remember the film … The Cove
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/11/not-ashamed-dolphin-hunters-of-taiji-break-silence-over-film-the-cove
When we actually cared about oceangoing mammals. Perhaps if we photoshop the Atlantic Ocean waters running RED … someone will care again
Moral relativity thrives in this the Age of Unreason.
That’s why little Congolese boys can mine lithium and why you will freeze old people to death in the dark of January.
The only way to deal with Climate Cultists is by using their ultimate goal against them: a cull.
Whereas it may have had some philosophical legitimacy at its inception, for the last several decades the “environmental movement” has been nothing more than a protection/shakedown racket. “Pay up or we bomb your business”. The businesses paid up. They bought their “protection”. And now the goons are protecting them.
An anecdote from way back in the 1980s. There was a moral panic over a whale species going extinct. And a media clip showed a somewhat elderly President Reagan making a comment about that. Mr. Reagan thought for a second, then said: “This isn’t right. Something must be done to save the whales!”.
So maybe the radical, well-moneyed environmentalists dislike whales given that Mr. Reagan liked them.
The don’t just kill birds.
https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=568,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/127/192/380/original/f053d17fef35779c.jpg
Whales aren’t fish.
They are virtue signals.
Actually this makes good sense.
Their ideology seeks to ensure we cannot use oil and gas,so whaling will make a comeback.
Nothing is more “Ecologically sustainable”,than harpooning these big greasy suckers and rendering them for their oil..It is very “natural”.
Just got to “limit the catch”..ala Cod Fishery.
And when the whales run out?
We use big useless two legged blobs of protoplasm..As the natural replacement.
Better start referring to our Progressive Comrades as “Land Whales” now,it will soften the blow.
So Greenpeace and their ‘Save the Whales’ campaign turns out to be just a cheap sell-out to the international wind industry. Why are we not surprised? These scum who claim to be opposed to GHGs own and operate a Russian-supplied gas company in Germany. And the only effect of wind power in Germany is to create a market for more gas.
So environmentalism turns out to be just an expensive and aggressive form of product advertising. And entirely opposed to nature conservation.
And the eagles too! Remember when that was a big deal? Had to outlaw DDT have millions of people die of malaria. Now screw the eagles and I’m not talking about Henley’s band.
I just spent some of my valuable time trying to identify a single wind farm entity that is producing a profit. Included in my search were massive conglomerates right on down to regional mid-sized operations. I found absolutely zero that qualified as profitable. AND, it should be noted that nearly 100% of all of them received obscene government subsidies to even exist.
As a follow up, I researched (using some more of my valuable time) the economic “experts” opinion as to whether wind farm investment was a solid choice. Nearly all of them suggest that it is an excellent long term investment opportunity.
Anyone see a problem with this dichotomy?
Liars covering for thieves? Nope no problem there, that’s how they normally do it.
I agree with both of you that it’s a waste of time. The moral basis for the grotesque subsidy is at least in part the notion of wind/solar is NOT being compensated for the carbon dioxide emissions that they don’t produce.
This is of course absurd for at least two reasons. 1. Industries receive compensation for products they produce that people want. They are never compensated for what people DON’T want. 2. Even if this was true, they are irrelevant in emissions avoidance compared with nuclear and large hydro.
How can it be a good long term investment? Wind turbines practically biodegrade visibly before everyone as they fall apart under simple weather exposure. Secondly, if an industry can’t demonstrate its economic viability then it has no business existing. Wind power has been around for at least eight centuries. It’s now obsolete. Environmentalists need to get over it or go back to thumb-sucking.
Solar power the same. We no longer build anything with sun-dried mudbricks. This too is obsolete.