Canadian Manufacturing- Aspire Food Group completes production of manufacturing facility
Aspire’s new plant will reportedly produce 9000 metric tons of crickets every year for human and pet consumption. That’s about two billion insects to be distributed annually across Canada and throughout the United States. Aspire also reports that it already has orders for the next two years.
June 14th, 2022 – Biden Climate Czar John Kerry: “We absolutely don’t need to drill for more oil and gas.”
June 14th, 2022 – Republican wins special election for Texas’s 34th Congressional District, flipping a seat that has been under nearly unbroken Democratic control for four decades.
Now for the bonus round! Biden demands oil companies explain lack of gasoline as prices rise
What’s everyone seeing out there?
Sensing Online- Get ready for the catastrophic DEF shortage
Unless the nation’s truckers can refill with Diesel Exhaust Fluid, the trucks will stop. Literally. DEF production and imports are about to crater and the country’s largest truck-fueling company, Flying J, has been directed by Union Pacific railroad to decrease its DEF-receiving shipments by 50 percent or be 100 percent embargoed. Unless resolved, this demand may cause countless thousands of 18-wheelers to be force-parked very soon, perhaps starting this month. That would be a very, very terrible event, because according to the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the trucking industry transports almost three-quarter of all goods shipped in the country.
There is no wand to be waved to make the DEF shortage simply disappear. But doing nothing is both reprehensible and indefensible.
Instapundit- UPDATE: A Knoxville friend writes:
“Ha, Rural King literally had pallets of 2.5 gallon DEF containers in their stores. $6.99, then $9.99. Now none. Same at Walmart. Tractor Supply etc. All of the newer ag equipment, tractor’s, combines etc require DEF. Talk about food shortages!”
We just need a hack so it’ll run without it. But EPA will probably block this. I liked it better when Atlas Shrugged was just a novel.
It’s too bad nobody warned us about this potential problem.
ICYMI: The skies over Toronto were filled with smoke in a rainbow of different colors as part of a massive pyrotechnical show examining the perils of climate change pic.twitter.com/O0yDmDObKL
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 12, 2022
James Cromwell must have the easiest job in Hollywood these days. His character of Ewan Roy on Succession seems to parallel his actual viewpoints so closely that it’s like he’s not even acting.
Cromwell glued his hand to the counter at a Midtown, Manhattan location to call on Starbucks to stop charging extra for vegan milk.
It turns out, in fact, that the similarities between himself and his character are no accident.
Cromwell, a longtime activist for animal rights, racial justice and environmental causes, told the Guardian his character was rewritten to reflect his politics as a condition of his participation in the HBO series. “I demanded that we have similarities,” he said.
Health Canada plan to require warning labels on ground beef, pork raises concerns
The action is just one of the many measures that the country has taken to ensure a seamless supply of coal to power plants that generate more than 70 percent of the electricity consumed by the subcontinent’s industries and 1.3 billion people. Leaders in developing parts of the world are ready to wear a badge of dishonor that climate alarmists award those who reject their absurd policy proposals.
“Earlier we were hailed as bad boys because we were promoting fossil fuel and now we are in the news that we are not supplying enough of it,” said India’s Coal Secretary, pointing to the negative coverage of a media that change colors as frequently as chameleons and the global hypocrisy over fossil fuels.
The post-pandemic economic recovery has sent power demand to unprecedented levels, resulting in rapid depletion of coal stockpiles at power plants and threatening serious consequences both to individual lives and major industrial processes.
I have little doubt that something similar to this scheme is coming to Canada. A friend currently travelling in Germany told me that these edicts, legislated in 2009, are being enforced and they have become an expensive reality for German homeowners. Renewables, by the way, include wood pellets. Presumably the central planners have a disdain for firewood.
Homeowners will have to use renewable energy sources to meet 14% of a household’s total energy consumption for heating and domestic hot water.
Existing houses will also have to be remodeled to incorporate renewable-energy-based heating systems from 2010 on. For old houses, 10% of the heating and domestic hot water energy needs will have to be provided by renewables.
Hopefully Reuters does not make a habit of drawing ridiculous conclusions, but maybe that’s fitting if your main concern is a narrative and not logic. Who knew that EV production is totally immune from supply chain bottlenecks and parts supply disruptions? They must truly be magical vehicles.
The supply crunch could accelerate the plans of some legacy auto firms to switch to a new generation of lighter, machine-made harnesses designed for electric vehicles, according to interviews with more than a dozen industry players and experts.
“This is just one more rationale for the industry to make the transition to electric quicker,” said Sam Fiorani, head of production forecasting firm AutoForecast Solutions.
With every Keynesian talking head now claiming that higher interest rates are the solution to rising consumer prices, maybe they would care to explain how this will resolve the problem of a chronic shortage of refinery capacity? Green energy mandates and various other useless ingredients are setting the economy up for one big train wreck. Higher capital costs may see some existing refineries shut down or unable to expand output.
Refining capacity has fallen in western countries in recent years as investors and policy makers move away from fossil fuels.
In fact, in a recent interview on Bloomberg TV, Chevron Corp.’s CEO Mike Wirth warned that there may never be a new refinery built in the U.S.
“We haven’t had a refinery built in the United States since the 1970s,” Wirth told Bloomberg. “My personal view is there will never be another new refinery built in the United States.”
Dear Leader is burning jet fuel to L.A. There he will be attending the Summit Of The Americas to discuss global warming. But what is this Green future?
Canada is the only country punishing its farmers with a tariff on #fertilizer. Conservatives and our G7 allies support their farmers, unlike Liberals. #cdnag pic.twitter.com/cckufa0XRR
— John Barlow (@JohnBarlowMP) June 2, 2022
With Europe on the verge of a severe recession thanks to green energy boondoggles, two years of catastrophic lockdowns and embargos on much of their outside energy supplies, don’t expect the goal of getting interest rates above zero to be achieved for very long, if at all.
When forced to reverse course back to even deeper negative rates, Keynesian apostle Christine Lagarde may conveniently forget that she ever said the following:
Against the backdrop of the evidence I presented above, I expect net purchases under the APP to end very early in the third quarter. This would allow us a rate lift-off at our meeting in July, in line with our forward guidance. Based on the current outlook, we are likely to be in a position to exit negative interest rates by the end of the third quarter.
#BREAKING: UN Special Envoy for Climate Action Mark Carney pushes my microphone away, trying to avoid scrutiny over his blatant hypocrisy in being a part of such a huge carbon footprint in Davos.
MORE: https://t.co/uvbDgOkyZl pic.twitter.com/nJjvTnmNq7
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) May 24, 2022
HSBC executive Stuart Kirk gave a presentation at an investor conference last week, taking banking regulators to task for overbaking the financial risk of climate change. What was he thinking? As punishment for his heresy, the British bank has sent him to re-education camp.
These are the people for which satire was invented.
As our delegates fly in today for the first day of #Davos2022 we’re excited to talk about climate change. pic.twitter.com/3NbtzBPBFB
— World Ecommunist Forum (@EcommunistForum) May 22, 2022
They think we can’t find the lampposts when the lights are out.
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has released its latest reliability assessment for the summer of 2022 and, to put it mildly, the news is not good. In far too many states, the power grid is already nearly at full capacity, and in the next few months, that capacity will be exceeded. This isn’t a question of “if” or really even “when.” It’s just a fact. Industry experts know this and have been trying to sound the alarm for several years. Critics are trying to place the blame on climate change (as they do with everything else) in the form of extended droughts and heatwaves. Those factors definitely exacerbate the problem, but this was going to happen in the next year or so anyway. And thus far, the government has done virtually nothing about it.
I think they’re wrong.
Telegraph- Eight fire crews battle inferno at Hertfordshire bus depot
An electric bus caught fire on Sunday while it was charging at a depot, causing five other vehicles to become engulfed, as eyewitnesses described hearing an explosion “like a jet”.
h/t clipe
It seems western provinces will have to sacrifice, so Dear Leader can implement his global warming scams.
Grid regulator warns of supply-chain-related power outages this summer