Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre took some time to speak about energy during his keynote speech to the Conservative national policy convention in Quebec City on Sept. 8. In those comments, he spoke about natural liquefaction extensively, as well as small modular reactors, hydroelectricity, tidal power and oil production. He mentioned more wind power, but did not speak of solar power generation. He also referred to producing minerals for electrification in Canada instead of China. This was an oblique reference to lithium, without actually mentioning lithium.
If you didn’t catch it – Steven Guilbeault crashed the Conservative policy convention in Quebec City. He wondered if Pierre Poilievre believed in climate change. Here’s some of what he had to say.
Alberta’s E3 Lithium might be first out of the gate with a pilot lithium plant, but several are in the works for Saskatchewan. And E3’s stated lithium concentration is 74.5 mg/L, while at Coleville, SK, Grounded Lithium also reports 74 mg/L. Arizona Lithium says they have up to 172 mg/L at Torquay. Hub City Lithium says it has concentrations of up to 259 mg/L at Viewfield (Stoughton). From Canadian Press: Alberta enters global lithium race with opening of first extraction pilot project.
A geologist I know once told me “All things being equal, Alberta has better rocks (than Saskatchewan).” Perhaps that’s true for oil, but it could be the inverse for lithium. Time will tell.
And from the Associated Press – Apparently the Germans figure they can get rid of fossil fuel heating. This, in a nation that doesn’t get much sun or wind, but had been building solar and wind facilities like crazy while shutting down all its nuclear plants. To quote C-3P0, “This is madness!”
No more wind power, no more solar power. If an individual wishes to pony up the money for a personal unit allow it.
Nothing wrong with diversifying providing it’s economical and sensible to do so in a reasonable un-legislated time frame that creates good jobs and actually helps the economy.
That’s doesn’t mean disposing of what works (Oil & Gas) it simply means having alternatives and back-ups like your investment portfolio should and not having “all your eggs in one basket”.
In a nutshell you are correct that’s a job for the Private sector to work out (like Musk), not the government.
“Providing it’s economical and sensible”…..WITHOUT subsidies and taxes. Wind and solar are poison pills and are useless.
““Providing it’s economical and sensible”…..WITHOUT subsidies and taxes. Wind and solar are poison pills and are useless.”
Absolutely. Let them stand on their own if they are so great and people love them so much.
Paul, please tell me just how you can make the shit without, coal. oil and gas? Man people are dumb.
As far as what Guilbert had to say I would not believe a word out of his mouth unless he was gagging while hanging from a rope.
He’d still lie.
Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle is hard to lie about. Gasp is even more difficult.
I didn’t know…
Canada’s Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Action Plan is Canada’s plan for the development, demonstration and deployment of SMRs for multiple applications at home and abroad. SMRs are a promising new technology that could unlock a range of benefits: economic, geopolitical, social, and environmental.
I suspect SMR’s won’t occur until the Laurentian Elite have arranged their control of and financial gain from their application across the country.
SMRs are under construction in Ontario.
https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1002543/ontario-breaks-ground-on-world-leading-small-modular-reactor
And to paraphrase another movie…
“Madness? This…. Is… Leipzig!”
Citizens as Statistics.
Politicians are determined to virtue signal the rest of us to death.
Yeah, well, Poilievre says a lot of things people want to hear.
He hasn’t said what I want to hear:
– total re-write of the Firearms Act.
– immediate downsizing of gov’t by 50% as a first step.
– abolish the Indian Act.
– Canada to exit the UN, WHO, etc.
– rebuild the CAF.
– return to the gold standard.
I could go on and on, but those would be a good start if Poilievre and the CPC are the least bit interested in my vote…
Agree, abolishing the handgun ban & reinstating proper sentencing for actual criminals would be a real deal.
Otherwise I’ll be happy to just get an adult who can focus on the economy for starters.
I don’t want the government to focus on the economy, I want them to get the feck out of the way.
“I don’t want the government to focus on the economy”
Yea well you sound broke and that is indeed unfortunate, but some of us aren’t and we like the government working sensibly with the BoC and other financial entities to keep the monetary system stable including the flow of capital to be accessible and readily available between Provinces, the private business sector, individuals, and the world markets.
It is one of the Federal governments few truly primary functions. Thier “business” should have nothing to do with Social issues or provincial jurisdictions other than insuring the free flow of goods and capital between provinces. Like pipelines through Quebec.
Paul, I don’t need a lecture nor do I need to be insulted by a stranger who knows nothing about me.
It reflects poorly on you, not me.
@Buddy
No you don’t and I apologize, I misread your comment to mean something other than it was.
PP’s latest ad has him promising to axe the Carbon Tax. Promises, promises…
I remember Tequila Sheila promising to resign if the Lieberals didn’t axe the GST.
I see Pierre dropping the glasses more and more. Must be the handlers. Preston did this too. Yes, if only you make superficial changes and look more like the Liberal leader, majority will be there!
weyland
You learned nothing from the john tory fiasco??????
Mr Yutani, I’m in full agreement on your post!
Saying and doing.
That twain rarely meets in the all hat no cattle Conservative Party.
Sounds good to me but if Pierre said it it would allow the libs and the press opportunities to attack. What he is saying is working and there is still two years to the election. Let the libs make the mistakes, not asking the conservatives to make unforced errors
I want all that plus a plan for retaliation for everything they’ve done. Calling ceasefire isn’t enough. I want a a return volley until they are on their knees repenting and offering reparations. And forget unity of the country. That ship sailed. Those Canadians are not these Canadians.
“Yeah, well, Poilievre says a lot of things people want to hear.”
He sure does. Except for that one time when he voted to accuse all Canadians of genocide.
Anyone know who the lady on the right is?
She is smirking/laughing at Guilbeault. Hilarious.
It almost sounds like Poilievre has finally dumped the Eastern backroom boys, unlike O’Toole and Scheer. Anybody know if he actually has?
cryptic – well, the convention is in Quebec.
“Sounds like” is the operative phrase. We thought Ford was going to be the great conservative hope, too.
Finding a real conservative in the Conservative Party is like finding an honest Liberal.
You’ve heard of them, heard stories of them,……..but never actually meet or see one.
Have had friends over the years who happened to be Liberal. They were good guys. Not like the current crop of Lieberals.
Sounds like, but probably not.
Steven Guilbeault can go take a bicycle ride to a harbour bridge any time.
As for Guilbert, who does he think he is crashing the conservative convention! So what will happen when a Conservative crashes a liberal convention because he/she doesn’t agree with his political policies? As I search his background this guy has a criminal record, how was he permitted to even run for politics?He is an activist that should not hold any political position.
The answer is obvious. He’s a convicted criminal antinuclear protester for Greenpeace. This sort of crashing is what he was and is professionally.
Having a criminal record is not a bar to running for a House of Commons seat. Canada has had a number of convicts sitting as Members over our history. Louis Riel is likely the best known one. We live in what purports to be a democracy over election of the House. That means the voters are supposed to decide these things, not some arbitrary criminal code.
Louis Riel was a former MP who was convicted, never an ex-con in Parliament.
What part of “he was elected” did you not understand? It was indeed within his rights to take his seat, except for his not-so-small problem of being arrested if he crossed the US-Canada border.
Learn to read, shithead. He had committed no crime and been convicted of nothing when he was elected. He committed his crimes a decade later.
If only they had Non-Disclosure Agreements back in the day.
Must have bitten the pillow for the Gropenfurher, to get the job
Excerpt from the article/speech, “get projects approved in 12 months, not 12 years. ”
That is a key point. The ridiculously long and expensive approval process in Canada seems designed to prevent investment in most energy and resource projects. Companies need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars and dedicate more than a decade to get through all of the bureaucratic hurdles and roadblocks, only to find new impenetrable political barricades built at the finish line. It’s better to build in countries with sane, predictable rules. Canada’s political climate makes it a risky jurisdiction for big investments.
If the Liberal government remains in power, all of the new energy and resource projects planned by Alberta and Saskatchewan (no matter how “green”) will be killed by Ottawa and their federal government funded activist groups – SMR, lithium, rare earth, etc.
The Liberal government’s unofficial permitting process is to punish their political enemies (the prairies) and reward their allies (central Canada).
Quite right. This was a problem when the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) was first written in 1990. There were no limits on process duration. There was no reconciliation with conflicting provincial statutes. And there was no actual permission to proceed. The only outcome was a recommendation to the Minister In Council. And this could only result in “the Minister will decide”.
Out of a host of countries among OECD nations, Canada adopted the worst, most onerous legislation of everyone. Stephen Harper tried to bring some sense and rationality to this deeply flawed legislation. But the instant Justatwit was elected in 2015, his government undid all the reforms and made it worse by eliminating competent regulatory bodies like NEA.
None of this will ever change unless Justatwit and Steven (Greenpeace) Guilbeault are removed from office. And I don’t much care how.
I’d like to see how Poilievre plans to speed up the approval process. I want to believe it’s possible but, realistically, I don’t think Canada can do anything this revolutionary. Alberta and Saskatchewan would have to wrestle the permitting power away from Ottawa, one way or another. Otherwise it’s just a short reprieve by a Conservative federal government, followed by a return to the regionally biased process by a Liberal federal government.
I agree with you; it’s likely too difficult without a complete rework of CEAA. The problem is that no government ever has the time and energy for more than about one big problem per term in office. And I suggest that Poilievre’s big project is to deal with the Liberal media monstrosity that Justatwit has created by turning CBC, CTV, Global into propaganda arms for the federal LIberals. Dealing with Ceeb in particular is going to be a huge project. Everything else will likely take a back seat.
On top of that, Poilievre is going to have to deal with everything that’s gone wrong during Justatwit’s time in office. Defense is a shambles. Foreign Affairs is a shambles. Fed/Prov relations are a shambles. The economy is a disaster (‘the budget will balance itself’). The value of the Canadian dollar is disintegrating.
Perhaps, simply reviving the permitting policy that preceded the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) of 1990 would work as a temporary solution. Or whatever policy worked for Canada when it could still get projects approved and built in a timely manner
LC, Parliament is supreme over any of its own legislation. If something is truly urgent and serious, the House of Commons can set aside the provisions of any of its own statutes and override them. It did this back in 2008 when it set aside the regulatory powers of the CNSC with respect to one specific operating licence related to the NRU research reactor. The whole action took one night in a House Committee of the Whole. The immediate cause was an international health crisis created by LInda Keen. The result was that Keen’s ruling was overturned, and she was fired the next day. Essentially what Keen had done was to defy the orders of her Cabinet Minister and an Order in Council. She committed mutiny, and her career had a bullet through the head.
So, if the government wishes to do so, it can set aside CEAA and the Canadian Energy Authority immediately by House resolution for any project or class of projects that it wishes. This presumes that Justatwit and his gang of Liberal potted plants are no longer controlling the House.
Now that you mention it, one of my plant chemists said something very similar about a somewhat related subject. Government, under certain conditions, can get things built if it’s deemed an emergency.
LC, the purpose of environmental assessment was to prevent things from happening. If, some 80 years ago, the Allies had had to do an environmental assessment for Operation Overlord, Nazi Germany would still be in existence and France would still be occupied.
The only escape from this death-trap is having the EA process overridden by Parliament. It can be done and in the case of Chalk River has been done. But it takes a decisive government with a clear approach to some policy decision or other. And that’s NOT Justatwit and his handler Katie Telford. That was the very good government we had once upon a time with Stephen Harper.
Talk is cheap.
Whatever PP says, he’ll need a goodly majority to accomplish it.
(And I don’t want to see any bullshit omnibus bills if he does have the majority.)
The government is the problem.
Is de-regulation easier than the shackling that Tarface, McKenna and Hans Gruber have imposed?
I don’t know.
But I do know there are some fake Cons who actually think the planet is going to kill us and that carbon dioxide is the boogeyman and so PP is going to have to deal with these turnips while battling the yellow stream media and the fear monger industry.
Liberals have ratcheted the straps down so hard it’s all breaking. Conservatives vow to release some tension. Big whoop.
Like it or not, the mess didn’t happen overnight and won’t be fixed with a wave of a wand. It’s Canada. Hard to get elected as a conservative. You have to basically promise not to be one. Then if you win, change can only be incremental, after all. We don’t elect a king.
Hard to implement meaningful change”incrementally” when Conservatives only govern for one term and then lose.
Now, It’s Up To Canadian Media To Destroy Pierre Poilievre
https://capforcanada.com/now-its-up-to-canadian-media-to-destroy-pierre-poilievre/