Category: Ethical Energy

The anatomy of compromise

Climate Cult Ethical Energy 19 Comments

Another hard lesson learned when you think you can successfully compromise with people whose ultimate goal is to destroy you.

But last week more than 500 organizations across Canada and the U.S., from Environmental Defence to Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, signed a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, contending that ‘carbon capture’ would actually delay the transition away from fossil fuels and ultimately increase CO2 emissions.

“Carbon capture is a dangerous distraction,” the letter states. “We don’t need to fix fossil fuels, we need to ditch them.”

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

Alternative Subsidy Climate Cult Ethical Energy 40 Comments

CTV;

A new study has found that if the world were to meet the targets set out in the Paris Agreement, there would be eight million more jobs globally by 2050.

But in this scenario, researchers say some fossil fuel-dependant economies such as Canada would actually see fewer energy jobs.

Because most of those eight million jobs would be in manufacturing wind turbines and the like, and not in actual energy generation. And nobody sane is going to manufacture that crap in high cost jurisdictions like Canada. It seems they’re just figuring that out now.

You know, there’s a Nobel Prize awaiting the first economist who successfully explains to mainstream journalism that when a system creates “eight million more jobs” than would be otherwise required, it’s a flashing red siren that energy generation has become vastly less efficient, and that vastly less efficient translates into vastly more expensive for consumers and industry alike.

Good luck keeping manufacturing plants in northern latitudes when winter heating costs go through the roof. Adios Amigos.

(There’s a lesser prize awaiting the first person to explain why there’s a hyphen between “fuel” and “dependant”).

Great Moments In Engineering

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h/t and commentary from Adrian;

End of an era in so many ways
 
It (Discovery of Brent) was responsible for building Europe not the UK , the whole reason that the experiment of Europe supposedly succeeded was because it was bankrolled by the UK’s oil and gas, plain and simple it could never have happened without it. Meanwhile the UK gave up any idea of sovereign wealth funds or becoming the Saudi Arabia of Europe.
 
The whole fucking lot squandered on a miserable ungrateful set of communist wannabe politicians.

Godspeed, Gretchen

Democrats Ethical Energy Shiny Pony Western Separatism 58 Comments

Fuel shortages loom in Ontario, Quebec if Michigan’s governor succeeds in shutting down pipeline

Ontario politicians are increasingly alarmed at the prospect of thousands of job losses in the coming months and fuel shortages in the province if Michigan succeeds in shutting down Enbridge Inc.’s Line 5 pipeline.
 
The mayor of Sarnia, a southern Ontario city that’s home to three refineries and multiple petrochemical plants, says the city faces potentially 5,000 job losses as Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has served Enbridge with notice the state is cancelling a decades old easement allowing its Line 5 pipeline, which runs from Western Canada to Michigan and southern Ontario, to cross the Straits of Mackinac through the Great Lakes.

Western Canadians can send a note of support and encouragement to the Governor here.

h/t Buddy

I Want A New Country

Climate Cult Ethical Energy Shiny Pony Western Separatism 89 Comments

Life under the surrender of law;

J.J. Ruest, the president and CEO of CN Rail, said in a statement Tuesday the railway has no choice but to temporarily shutter “significant” parts of its network because blockades by Indigenous protesters near Belleville, Ont., and New Hazelton, B.C., have made train movements in the rest of the country all but impossible.
 
“We are currently parking trains across our network, but due to limited available space for such, CN will have no choice but to temporarily discontinue service in key corridors unless the blockades come to an end,” Ruest said.
 
Ruest said the protests threaten industry across the country, including the transport of food and consumer items, grain, de-icing fluid at airports, construction materials, propane to Quebec and Atlantic Canada, and natural resources like lumber, aluminum and coal.

Anthony Furey: A judge warned us in 2013 that endless blockades were coming to Canada

So the courts have ruled that the protesters must leave. It’s the job of the police to enforce the law. But the police have instead made a choice to not enforce the law and are instead “monitoring the situation” and “maintaining a dialogue”. Meanwhile, the Ontario Solicitor General’s office, which is responsible for the OPP, shirked responsibility by simply telling Postmedia that “the Minister cannot direct police operations”.
 
This is far from the first time law enforcement in Ontario has failed to do their job. In fact, an Ontario Superior Court judge even issued a stark warning several years ago about what would happen if this contempt for court injunctions on the part of the police continues.

I trust the gun rights people are watching and taking notes.

All this as Shiny Pony hopscotches around the globe with his personal photographer, throwing money from the plane.

New Carbon Capture Tech?

Ethical Energy 66 Comments

Oilprice;

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a paper that details the mechanism of a battery device that can suck out the carbon dioxide from the air, store it, and then release it for sequestration or storage and subsequent sale: the oil and gas industry uses CO2 to improve well output.
 
The principle of the device is ingeniously simple: as the battery charges, it sucks in carbon dioxide. During discharge, the CO2 is released into the ground. The battery itself is made up of arrays of electrodes with gaps between the arrays so the gas can enter the device. Each electrode is coated with a carbon nanotube layer that enables an electrochemical reaction when carbon dioxide comes into contact with the surface of the electrodes. The guarantee for this contact is the fact the electrodes have a natural affinity for CO2, which means they attract the gas molecules when they enter the device.

“Why did the city of Calgary give $340,000 to an anti-oilsands lobby group…?”

Ethical Energy More Pavilions At Folkfest 57 Comments

If I didn’t know better, I’d swear Nenshi’s an agent of the Saudis.

Would the city of Windsor, Ont., home of Canada’s auto industry, give a third of a million dollars to anti-car lobbyist? Would Hamilton hire an anti-steel lobby?
 
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation revealed this shocking payment. But instead of expressing embarrassment, Mayor Naheed Nenshi admitted he knew all about it, and supported it.
 
Nenshi didn’t dispute that Pembina has nine lobbyists registered in Ottawa to attack the oil patch. But he claimed Pembina was also a “scientific think-tank” and it was for this expertise that the city paid them so richly. When asked by Sun Media if the city would ever pay the pro-free market Fraser Institute for advice, Nenshi was dismissive. “As soon as they hire scientists who actually know something,” he sniffed.

Actually, I don’t know better.

Let The Eastern Bastards Freeze In The Dark

Ethical Energy Western Separatism 80 Comments

Don’t think of it as “shortfall”.

With the CN strike about to enter day three, the president of the Canadian Propane Association (CPA) says the province of Quebec is about to enter into a crisis situation, with Ontario not far behind.
 
Quebec heavily relies on the the railroad to bring its supply of propane — 83 per cent is transported via the rail line. In Canada, overall, 63 per cent of propane moves on the tracks, with the remainder transported by truck.
 
According to Nathalie St-Pierre, president and CEO of the CPA, by the end of the day on Wednesday, 80 per cent of Quebec’s propane reserve will be used up. […]
 
The supply shortfall is being caused by numerous factors — demand spikes from cold weather, farmers needing to dry grain, and a rail strike that has yet to be resolved.
 
St-Pierre can’t recall the last time an accumulation of factors have caused such a shortfall of the product.

Think of it as practice.

I Wish I Owned All The Oil Companies In The World

Ethical Energy Western Separatism 59 Comments

They want a new country, too.

Encana Corp., one of Canada’s oldest and largest energy companies, is moving its corporate headquarters from Calgary to the United States.
 

The company, which is also changing its name to Ovintiv Inc., said Thursday that having a U.S. address will expose it to increasingly larger pools of investment in U.S. index funds and passively managed accounts, as well as better align it with its U.S. peers.

I always give good advice.

Update.

Over A Barrel (Documentary)

2019 Federal Election Ethical Energy 47 Comments

Via email, from ‘Snagglepuss’

I know that several of you have read an article or two about this video, but I don’t know how many of you actually have had the opportunity to watch the video itself? Here it is, if you wish to watch it? With all the $$ involved, you would think that Ms. Krause would have been sued to death for presenting this info and saying the things that she says in the video, if it were not factually correct?
 
If you watch until the end you will see just how much influence is happening even in our current election.

Available for free viewing until October 31.

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