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.
Great Success!
Chris Morris- Update on Australian NetZero efforts
The answer is not much progress but massive amounts of money spent.
Math is Hard
Back in November 2025, the Washington State Department of Ecology and Washington State Department of Commerce published some statistics about how much carbon emissions have been reduced because of the programs they’re spending millions of taxpayer dollars on.
One little problem: Their numbers were off by 9,500 per cent.
Due to a data entry error, Commerce reported that 7.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced as a result of eight rebate projects funded by the CCA that support home electrification and appliance rebates for low-income and vulnerable communities. The corrected data now estimates that 78,000 tons of emissions will be reduced over the lifetime of those projects.
If you don’t breathe for 12 hours, do you ask about a good day?
Saskatchewan saw zero wind power for 17 hours over two days.
Hilariously, a Saskatchewan doctor commented on Facebook re this story, “Are you able to share the data for a day where we had good wind production too, for comparison sake?”
I responded, “Doctor, when you look at a patient, do you say, “Let’s look at a day when he’s breathing, because on this day for 12 hours he wasn’t breathing?”
“You don’t judge critical systems by their good days, but their worst. You of all people should know that.”
Related:
NDP calls SaskPower rate hike “fiscal trainwreck,” Minister calls it “modest” compared to the alternative.
The big goose egg
Zero, Zip, Nada. Wind output in Alberta on Jan. 2.
I had to rewrite the story at least five times and change my headline three times as the numbers kept falling, ultimately to zero.
And amazingly, in Facebook comments on this story, some people still argue “zero”. One person called it “misleading.”
Also:
Brian Crossman: Being good neighbours
And:
SaskPower seeking 3.9% rate increases this February and next February
Sparky Car Blues
I suspect the reasons for Tesla’s sales slump have less to do with Elon’s political views and more to do with the fact that the EV market has generally been stoked by hype as opposed to tangible value.
Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9% from a year earlier.
For the fourth quarter, sales totaled 418,227, falling short of the 440,000 that analysts polled by FactSet expected. The sales total was impacted by the expiration of a $7,500 tax credit that was phased out by the Trump administration at the end of September.
Liberal straws
Michael Zwaagstra: Liberals being hypocritical on plastics ban.
And, since everyone is doing the whole year in review, here’s the biggest energy story in Saskatchewan for 2025:
Saskatchewan to rebuild its coal fleet, despite federal regulations calling for its demise
This was the biggest story in Saskatchewan’s energy sector in 2025, by a wide margin. Even the Premier agreed, when asked about it in December. Saskatchewan to rebuild its coal fleet, despite federal regulations calling for its demise. It’s my understanding we should see Boundary Dam Unit 4 returned to service soon in the new year. It was retired under the federal coal regulations, but continually brought back into service because, guess what, we needed it. About a year ago it was finally disconnected, only to be called back to service now.
Inconvenient Data
Record low temperatures will inevitably be dismissed as an example of changing weather, while any instance of warming temps will continue to be regarded as evidence of changing climate and thus deserving of an ongoing declaration of emergency. I expect we’ll be building ever more carbon sequestration projects, if only to be on the “safe” side.
On Dec. 23, a weather monitoring station in Braeburn, Yukon, recorded a temperature reading of -55.7 degrees Celsius, the lowest December temperature charted in Canada since 1975. For context, this isn’t too far off the average temperature on the surface of Mars, a planet whose lack of atmosphere renders it notably cold and uninhabitable.
If It Wasn’t For Government
Who would make heat unaffordable and then tell you to…
Telegraph- Wiggle your toes to stay warm during cold snap, council tells elderly
If It Wasn’t For Fake Weather
Would there be any weather at all?
Drill, Baby, Drill
Telegraph- Norway strikes oil in North Sea near British waters
Norway has drilled around 45 exploratory wells in 2025, with 12 yielding commercial quantities of oil and gas. This included 30 in the North Sea of which six were economic.
Its discoveries are in stark contrast to the UK sector of the North Sea, which has been hit by the Government’s 78pc total tax rate on oil and gas profits and a ban on new exploration.
Y2Kyoto: Yukon Cold
Yukon Liberals mandated all homes in Whistle Bend, the largest new subdivision ONLY be allowed to heat with electric, then were forced to buy multiple diesel and gas generators in the fallout yet STILL pushed EV's like retards
now the grid is failing and people are gonna freeze pic.twitter.com/0sNUSdMvji
— Yukon Strong 🇺🇸 (@YukonStrong) December 24, 2025
How Did Porsche’s Profits Drop by 99% ?
Something has gone very wrong with businesses in Germany. Porsche is but one example. More here.
Keynesian Dreams
Nothing says destruction of capital like pumping carbon dioxide 400 kilometers and then forcing it into the earth.
“Alberta specifically is a really great confluence of all the right factors coming together to give Canada a chance to lead in this ecosystem,” said Cameron Halliday, co-founder of Cambridge, Mass.-based Mantel Capture.
Mantel is not disclosing the cost of the project at this time. It is receiving support from Alberta Innovates, a provincial Crown corporation.
Going To The Dogs
At first glance, I thought I was looking at a parody account. But it’s a real thing, complete with a central figure who seems to be channeling Timothy Treadwell.
The non-profit Vancouver Foundation is one of B.C.’s oldest charitable contributors, and in its most recently updated list of grant recipients, it lists a $300,000 grant for a “Decolonial Dog Sanctuary,” a project described as a “form of land-based re-occupation.”
The sanctuary’s overseer is Teresa Brown, who lives on site and is described in Vancouver Foundation grant documents as a “Wilp Matriarch and Hereditary Representative of the territory.”
Brown has said she had limited knowledge of dog care before starting the sanctuary, but believed that aggressive dogs could “evolve into versions of themselves that thirst again for love.”
Another take on the demise of the Ford EV pickup
Ford kills its pure EV pickup. New version will have a gas generator motor
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Call them. pic.twitter.com/7ZgHjpFs5E
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 16, 2025