Blacklocks; A federal climate program to install clean energy in First Nations cost the equivalent of more then $9,000 per person, records show. The disclosure follows a 2023 report acknowledging a multi-million dollar program to phase out diesel generators in Arctic Canada was nowhere near to reaching its target…
Thank You For Your Attention To This Starter
Repealed: President Trump is formally TERMINATING the Obama-era rules that forced car makers into putting the infamous “START-STOP” into vehicles
How would your stomach feel?
What if your job, your mortgage, your ability to feed your kids hinged on a 12-year-old’s climate crusade?
Because yet again, for Saskatchewan coal workers, it does.
Oh, and two weeks ago, CBC gave that very kid an award for their activism, for this very case. And I use “they” for a reason.
Boomer Bait
A little something, something for the elbows and arseholes crowd.
One judicial smackdown apparently wasn’t enough …
BREAKING: Round two: Appeal filed on coal decision ruling.
At question: Do a 12 year old, a podcaster and someone who doesn’t even live here get to kill 1100 coal-related jobs? According the Court of King’s Bench, no, they don’t. Governments get to make those sorts of decisions, and can’t be second guessed by the courts.
Well, these applicants are taking a second round at second guessing.
One Step Forward, Six Steps Back
It didn’t take long for Carney to get out the EV subsidy shovel again.
Speaking at an auto parts manufacturer in Woodbridge, Ont., Prime Minister Mark Carney said Ottawa is restoring the rebate program with $2.3 billion to help Canadians cover the cost of a new EV, and $1.5 billion for EV infrastructure like charging stations.
Ottawa will offer $5,000 toward the cost of a new EV and $2,500 toward plug-in hybrids. Those rebates will decrease every year until they’re phased out after 2030 — or until the money for the program runs out.
Or rather, until the government goes bankrupt.
Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries
Y2Kyoto: “An Inconvenient Truth” Celebrates 20 Years
Forecast for Florida: “This is not something you hear very often, but Gulf Effect snow is a possibility“.
Cult Classic
Maybe it’s time for a passive/aggressive approach to idiotic court rulings. In this case, I’d suggest putting every single story house on Bonaire on stilts and/or prohibiting the occupation of the first floor on multi-floor buildings. That much stair climbing will see that residents grow tired of climate change hysteria in short order.
A court on Wednesday ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents on the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire from the effects of climate change — a sweeping victory for the islanders.
The Hague District Court, in a stunning rebuke of Dutch authorities, also ruled that the government discriminated against the island’s 20,000 inhabitants by not taking “timely and appropriate measures” to protect them from climate change before it’s too late.
Keepin’ those lights on
Natural gas and coal kept Saskatchewan’s lights on during frigid weather. As in, nearly every furnace in this province saw its fan running as a result of natural gas and coal, right when we needed it most.
Also: Bronwyn Eyre inaugural recipient of new award for Canadian champions of freedom. She happens to be cohost of the Pipeline Online Podcast and a regular columnist.
Brian Crossman: Artificial Intelligence, the oilpatch, and John Wick’s dog.
And under the file of “I’ll believe it when I see it”: If elected, the Parti Québécois would not necessarily oppose new gas or oil pipelines
When You Separate Authority from Responsibility
Bad News for Climate Alarmists
Trigger warning to all of you who have a framed photo of Saint Greta Thunberg above your bed and worship the ground that Al Gore walks upon.
Mann Up, Mike
BREAKING: The Superior Court in DC just NUKED disgraced climate scientist Michael Mann AGAIN.
Last year, Mann was sanctioned for “knowingly feeding the jury false data” in a manner of misconduct that was “extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent.”
Today, the court doubled down, highlighting Michael Mann’s lies:
“Plaintiff left the jury with misleading evidence… the Court simply cannot condone such bad faith litigation tactics… Thus, the Court’s ruling must stand. It is the Court’s duty to punish and deter bad faith litigation tactics.”
Now Michael Mann must pay Rand Simberg $16,762.82 and Mark Steyn $11,404.80 within the next 30 days.
Who is Michael Mann?
He reposted comments calling Charlie Kirk the “head of Trump’s Hitler Youth.”
In 2022, Mann wrote on X that the Republican Party needed to be “destroyed.”
Mann has also called for people to take up arms and form a militia against President Trump and he has been sanctioned by a court for “knowingly feeding the jury false data” in a manner of misconduct that was “extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent.”
Great Success!
O’Keefe Infiltrates Davos WEF
Trump’s speech
Donald Trump’s speech to the WEF at Davos.
Oh, yeah, and he has something of a response to Carney’s speech the previous day, too.
Beyond Profits
Interactive Investor- BP reveals $5bn hit on green energy
BREAKING: Coal injunction tossed, judicial activism rebuked
BREAKING: Coal injunction tossed; court says governments get to make environmental policy. In other words, the coal injunction is dead it its tracks. @SaskPower can rejuvenate its coal fleet. The decision is a rebuke of the trend of judge-made law and activist courts, clearly noting the supremacy of the legislative branch in making policy.
This is a huge decision on many points – not just on coal, but on putting activist judges in their place. It will be cited for a long time to come.
The pendulum just may be swinging back to sanity.
Also: NDP criticizes impending SaskPower rate hikes, minister responds
When it blows, it sucks for ever other power generator
High wind output in Saskatchewan and Alberta, with zero dollar pricing in Wild Rose Country
Freezing In The Dark
Spiked- Berlin’s blackout was a grim taste of our Net Zero future
Berlin’s horrendous four-day blackout, which plunged over 45,000 households in the city’s south-west into darkness, is finally over. Beginning last Saturday and lasting for four nights, the blackouts left homes, shops and care facilities without light, heating and communications access – just as a particularly nasty cold spell sent temperatures plummeting to minus-10 degrees Celsius. The far-left ‘Volcano Group’ (Vulkangruppe) has claimed responsibility for the blackout, which it reportedly achieved by setting fire to electricity cables connected to Berlin’s largest gas power plant.