I took this video of the excess and unsold Brightdrop EV vans a month ago to predict its demise thanks to Liberal NetZero hubris and folly
This is the waste and foolishness of those ignorantly going along with the ruinous NetZero agenda of the @MarkJCarney Liberals pic.twitter.com/tCERtHseC8
— Dan McTeague (@GasPriceWizard) April 12, 2025
Related: Barack Obama’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Power Plant has officially failed and will begin shutting gone operations early 2026
Mark Carney has a brother.
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) is touted as an “independent philanthropic organization” according to its website, spending £618,739,409 (approximately $1.05 billion CAD) on charitable causes in 2021 according the Government of the United Kingdom’s website. A behemoth of an entity with billions of dollars in assets, it is one of the largest philanthropy-based organizations in the world, parented by The Children’s Investment Fund Management, which naturally has a holding company located in the Cayman Islands. It was founded in 2002 by billionaire activist hedge fund manager Sir Christopher Hohn. The charity was managed by Hohn’s wife before being handed over to a CEO, who is now Kate Hampton, a main player in the formation of the 2016 Paris Accords, which pledged to, among other things, keep the rise in global temperature below 2°C (but preferably under 1.5°C) to mitigate the harmful effects of climate change.
Kate Hampton, a WEF Young Global Leader, also sits as a Council Member on the [China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development]. The CIFF’s involvement with this CCP-led environmental “think-tank” doesn’t end there though. Lei Hongpeng of CIFF works with her, acting as a Special Advisor to the organization. The charity is seemingly intricately involved with the CCICED, co-hosting conferences held by Energy Foundation China (EFC) to discuss pressing matters such as “China’s Role in Global Climate Governance.” Energy Foundation China is led by CEO and President Professor Ji Zou, another WEF member who negotiated the Paris Accords, who coincidentally also sits as a Special Advisor to the CCICED. Energy Foundation China was formerly a part of the Energy Foundation, an organization operating under the direction of the vast umbrella of the Chinese government. It’s Beijing location is reportedly registered with the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, an entity tasked with a broad array of domestic national security activities, and answers to the National Development and Reform Commission, a department aforementioned in this article as being formerly run by Vice-Chairman Xie Zhenhua, who now leads the CCICED. The incestuous overlapping nature of the members of these bodies cannot be understated, nor are they fully explored in this article. EFC has a rather simplistic mandate as noted by Influence Watch: to assist the People’s Republic of China to become “the world leader in clean energy production,” particularly in the areas of wind and solar energy generation. The unreliables, that is. The ones that China desperately wants to provide us with. Do we see where this is going?
You can pick up the Lee thread here (newly developing).
At Monday’s Airbus Summit 2025 in Toulouse on the sustainability of the aviation sector, the company’s CEO provided several details about the nature of its hydrogen aircraft project. Originally slated to enter service in 2035, the aircraft was postponed with no specific timeline in mind.
This is expected to represent at least a five to ten year delay. The delay enables Airbus to establish whether the project itself is still feasible while allowing time for new technology to develop to facilitate the aircraft’s construction.[…]
The project was initially launched in 2020. The aircraft, named ZEROe, is part of Airbus’ plan to “bring a hydrogen-powered commercial aircraft to market.” The hydrogen fuel cell technology was selected in 2025 as the preferred means for the future plane.
Airbus’ official statement at the time read that it remained “committed to the goal of bringing a commercially viable, hydrogen-powered aircraft to market” but noted that “development a hydrogen ecosystem – including infrastructure, production, distribution and regulatory frameworks – is a huge challenge requiring global collaboration and investment.”
Related: The “colossal fail” label came because it turns out that when [Toronto] city hall made the decision in 2019 to go electric with the purchase of two new ferries — urgently needed partial replacements for the current fleet of four ancient, often-broken boats — they, well, forgot something kind of important.
After decades of quietly footing the bill for Europe’s grand energy experiments, it appears Norway has finally decided to walk off the stage — or at the very least, slam the door shut on a few cross-border power cables on the way out.
The political crisis rocking Oslo isn’t just about domestic squabbles or ideological posturing. It’s about energy — more specifically, the growing realization that Norway, with its hydro-rich grid, has become the unwilling battery pack for Germany’s failed energy transition. Or as the Germans call it, Energiewende.
And like all grand social experiments conducted with other people’s money, the Norwegians are understandably losing patience. […]
With baseload capacity gutted and dispatchable plants (i.e., fossil fuels) scorned, Germany has become a dangerously energy-dependent neighbor. When the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow, Berlin plugs into the north — namely Norway — and expects the lights to stay on.
And for years, they have. At Norway’s expense.
• Heathrow closed: London’s Heathrow Airport is completely shut down because of a power outage due to a large fire nearby, causing massive disruption at one of the world’s busiest travel hubs. The fire is now under control, but Heathrow’s backup power supply was also affected.
• Thousands impacted: Heathrow’s closure is expected to affect more than 1,300 flights. An airline analytics firm estimated that “upwards of 145,000” passengers could be impacted, and Heathrow is warning of significant disruption in the coming days. Trains around Heathrow have also been disrupted.
🚨 Heathrow substation on fire—just in time for Britain’s Net Zero master plan! 🔥✈️
No flights, no power, no problem! Soon, we won’t need airports at all—just bikes, windmills, and virtue signalling.
Are there any redundancies in place? pic.twitter.com/KV50BMnFpm
— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) March 21, 2025
Of course: Heathrow had diesel generators for emergency back-up if the grid went down. Sadly they removed the back-up a few weeks ago in order to meet Green Energy targets.
If no one will pay for their wind energy, how will they pay for their yachts?
The United States is preparing to withdraw from the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a collaborative effort designed to assist developing nations in moving away from coal and adopting cleaner energy sources. As per the media reports, the decision, which comes after the initiative was first declared in 2021 at the United Nations climate talks in Glasgow, will see the USA end its support for energy transition programs in Vietnam, Indonesia, and South Africa.
According to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter, the USA is expected to pull back from its substantial financial commitments to these countries. In total, USA pledges for Indonesia and Vietnam exceed USD 3 billion, while its commitment for South Africa stands at USD 1.063 billion as part of a larger USD 11.6 billion package. These funds were intended to help these nations reduce their reliance on coal and invest in renewable energy infrastructure.
Is China adding a 100% tariff to canola oil god that can’t be true?
What the fuck did Trudeau do now.
This can’t be true. pic.twitter.com/xbXs3LI79R
— Kotylak (@Kotyjo) March 8, 2025
…retaliating against levies Ottawa introduced in October on Chinese-made electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products.
We have the worst negotiators.
Less than a year after launching a hedge fund dedicated to the green energy transition, its founder says there’s currently no financial gain to be had from investing in renewable power.
“The whole sector — solar, wind, hydrogen, fuel cells — anything clean is dead for now,” said Nishant Gupta, founder and chief investment officer at London-based Kanou Capital LLP.
Against a barrage of political headwinds in the US, a war-fueled energy crisis and stubbornly high interest rates, large parts of the clean-energy industry are stalling. In the past year, the S&P Global Clean Energy Index has lost 20%, a period during which the S&P 500 Index gained 16%. And with the Trump administration shredding climate policies in the world’s largest economy, many green investors are taking a timeout.
Bad news for battery plants.
Nikola (NKLA.O) said on Wednesday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and would pursue a sale of its assets, the latest electric-vehicle maker to stumble after grappling with tepid demand, rapid cash burn and funding challenges.
The development ends a challenging journey, which included several leadership changes, plummeting share values and short-seller allegations.[…]
Phoenix, Arizona-based Nikola, delivered its first vehicle in December 2021. A series of fire incidents involving its electric trucks in 2023 resulted in a recall of all its vehicles and raised safety concerns.
Nikola ramped up production of its hydrogen-powered trucks in 2024, but still lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on every vehicle sold as fleet operators were reluctant to invest in electric truck adoption amid high borrowing costs.
The corruption gravy train is quickly coming to an end, so the pigs at the trough are getting out of Dodge! Brilliant research.
A school district in Democrat Maine got new EV busses through The EPA’s ‘Clean school bus program’…
A school district in Democrat Maine got new EV busses through The EPA’s ‘Clean school bus program’
Winter came and the busses shut down during a run, they were unable to be driven back to the school and abandoned on the side of the road
“They sent the buses back to the… pic.twitter.com/IIiXWHU7Qc
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 15, 2025
Made in Canada: Lion Electric has filed for bankruptcy.
Found On Road Dead: Ford, $F, lost about $37,000 per EV sold in Q4 2024, per Sawyer Merritt.
Bloomberg (Feb 3): Nordic countries increasingly feel they are paying the cost of a failed German energy policy — one they weren’t consulted on, though it affects them.
Energiewende is the German version of the energy transition championed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel: shutting down nuclear power stations and embracing wind and solar electricity. All were supported by successive right- and left-wing governments with generous subsidies. Dunkelflaute is a period of windless and cloudy weather that reduces renewable production.
The combination of both words means the German electricity grid is today more weather dependent than ever. Without sufficient baseload generation running 24/7 and dispatchable plants, which can be activated on demand, Berlin relies on imports from neighboring countries to fill the gap during long stretches of winter when it’s dark and windless.
In Norway, energiewende and dunkelflaute have collided, pushing up local electricity prices as the country exports a growing amount of power via cross-border cables. Average wholesale power prices in 2023-2024 were more than 50% higher in southern Norway than in the 2010-2020 period. The problem reached its zenith last week when Oslo debated whether to adopt new EU rules, known as the fourth clean-energy package, key to advancing the rollout of renewables.
On Thursday, the euro-skeptic Center Party denied its support to the measures and abandoned the coalition government that’s ruled the country for three-and-a-half years, setting off the leadership spiral. The center-left Labour Party will now go it alone, in the party’s first minority government in 25 years, ahead of elections set for Sept. 8. […]
The collapse of the Norwegian government came months after a spat between Sweden and Germany after Stockholm rejected Berlin’s request to build another cross-border connection. In 2023, Norway rejected a British request for a submarine cable to Scotland. Crucially, whoever wins the next Norwegian election, they are likely to scrap a 50-year-old pair of cables connecting Norway with Denmark. If that happens, it would indicate that other cross-border interconnectors may be in danger when they reach their end of life, and that new projects to replace them — and also expand capacity beyond the current design — may never be built.
Dogs live longer than this: Massive Ivanpah solar power plant faces closure just eleven years after it opened.
Shell plc is withdrawing from the Atlantic Shores wind project of New Jersey, writing off nearly $1 billion as the energy major retreats from its earlier pivot toward renewables.
In its quarterly earnings report on Jan. 30, Shell disclosed a $996 million impairment associated with Atlantic Shores, planned as a 2,800-megawatt array of 197 turbines off Long Beach Island and Brigantine, N.J.
“We just don’t see that it fits both our capabilities nor the returns that we would like,” Sinead Gorman, Shell’s chief financial officer, said in a call with reporters Bloomberg reported. “So we took the decision to effectively write that off and pause our involvement.”
Six Things to Know About Your Electric Utility
Many years ago, a comedy group posted a video featuring actors as average Americans in a slick faux commercial satirizing coal energy. Turns out the coincident target of this mockery was the rest of us and how little we understand about what powers our lives.
“What if the power to sustain your world was right inside a mountain?” asks the narrator. He continues, “What if you could power an entire city for a hundred dollars?” A man in a hard hat says, “Cheap power is clean power. The future is later.” A woman looks soberly at the camera, “Electricity comes from the walls in my home where I live.”
Well, there went $52 billion worth of battery factories.
With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers.
In other words, you’ll be able to buy the car of your choice. We will build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago and thank you to the autoworkers of our nation for your inspiring vote of confidence.
Full transcript here.
Amazon electric vehicles seen charging in the snow
All these vehicles are being charged by a huge diesel generator. The generator is on, you can hear it running providing the power
“Doesn’t that defeat the purpose when you literally have a diesel powered generator electrifying… pic.twitter.com/wcyXuKnIzr
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 15, 2025
If the Canadian government decides to go ahead with plans to shut off the supply of oil to the United States, the bigger crisis will be a financial one, not a national unity kerfuffle. Companies facing bankruptcy when forced to abrogate their contracts will have to be compensated by taxpayers and that bill will be big enough to send us begging to the IMF.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says that if the federal government imposes an export ban on Alberta oil going to the United States as a retaliatory measure against expected U.S. tariffs it would precipitate a “national unity crisis.”
In addition, the United States is probably aware that the petrochemical supply runs both ways in some regions.
In 2023, Canada imported 16.9 million metric tons of crude oil from the United States, which was the largest quantity Canada imported from any country.
There’s more bannin’ to do and time is running out;
The Biden administration finalized climate regulations to ban most natural gas-powered instantaneous water heaters — a move that critics say will drive up costs for consumers.
The Department of Energy—which formally published the rules the day after Christmas — didn’t issue a press release announcing the action, a departure from past appliance regulations. The published rules say the regulations are expected to help the climate by curbing carbon dioxide emissions.
Overall, under the regulations, roughly 40 percent of the new tankless water heaters available in the United States today will be taken off the market by 2029. Experts and industry officials say that will force consumers to purchase either more expensive or less efficient water heater models.
One industry analysis estimates that consumers will pay $450 more on average when purchasing new water heaters thanks to the regulations. And that will impact low-income and senior households, which are most reliant on the models targeted by the Department of Energy.