We’ll just make it impossible for you to live.
Reason- Environmental Regulations Are Literally Baking Europeans to Death
Europe’s lower GDP, higher electricity prices, and strict environmental regulations impede the use of air conditioning, contributing to the continent’s annual 175,000 heat-related deaths.
Having previously changed the consumer carbon tax rate to zero, the Carney government appears to be moving to eliminate it altogether. But don’t get out the champagne just yet. The industrial carbon tax remains, and Carney’s being cagey about what might happen to it.
In March Carney used a regulation to set the price of the consumer carbon price to zero. However the government is now moving to repeal the law which enabled the policy, effectively ending it for good — along with the rebate Canadians received from it.
The pricing system for industry accounted for about 80 per cent of total emissions cuts from carbon pricing overall.
Carney has promised to strengthen the industrial policy but has not said how or when that will happen.
“Starting in 2028, ships face fees up to $380 per ton”
Everyone losing their minds over Trump’s 10% tariffs is dead silent about the UN’s “green” tariff hitting every import & export on Earth. If you’re outraged by Trump but not this, you’re not anti-tariff, you’re a hypocrite.
Armstrong Economics- EPA Threw Away BILLIONS Ahead of Trump Presidency
The Biden Administration effectively permitted this agency to “throw gold bars” off the edge of the Titanic and needlessly spend public funds. All of these investigations lead to the same conclusion. The government provides nonprofits with a large sum and those agencies then funnel the money to smaller agencies, whether its related to climate change or funding terrorism. This is precisely why Trump attempted to freeze all federal funds upon taking office.
Although, I could be persuaded into adding incandescent light bulbs to the list.
The burden won’t be limited to the cost of unloading the current stock of EVs to consumers who don’t want them. There will be additional losses for dealers and automakers who built production and sales infrastructure to comply with mandates that are now disappearing across the board. Maybe it’s just that Canadian politicians pride themselves in policy failure. Otherwise, why are there so many failures, so often?
“There is no pathway to 100 per cent zero-emission vehicle sales in the next 10 years with the support [currently] being provided to Canadians,” Kingston said. “Dictating what vehicles Canadians can and can’t buy, without providing them with the supports necessary to switch to electric is a made-in-Canada policy failure.”
Independent- Moss Landing fire: One of the world’s largest battery factories ablaze
The fire is located in the northern part of the sate some 300 miles (500 km) north of the wildfires in Los Angeles. The plant contains tens of thousands of lithium batteries, which can be extremely difficult to put out if they go up in flames.
Blacklock’s- Wildfire Risk Was “Political”
Internal emails show Parks Canada executives feared “public and political perception” in managing fire hazards at Jasper, Alta. Access To Information records yesterday released by Conservative MP Dan Mazier (Dauphin-Swan River, Man.)
Jonah Mitchell, executive director of Parks Canada’s Prairie division, warned of negative media coverage if the agency organized a controlled burn of dead pine, a routine forest management practice. “At what point do we make the organizational decision to cancel planned prescribed burns in Western Canada?” asked Director Mitchell.
Blacklocks- Solar Panels A Pollution Risk
The department budgeted $1.2 million for research on how to recycle panels at low cost. Panels contain aluminum, tellurium, antimony, gallium and indium “in some thin film modules which are currently not being recycled” due to high cost, it said. “Solar panels are constructed in such a manner that the many parts comprising the panel are difficult to separate and recycle individually.”
“Separating those materials and uniquely recycling them is a complex and expensive process as opposed to the cheap method of discarding the entire panel into a landfill,” it said.
Bjorn Lomborg- Another environmental scare debunked: Acid rain killing all forests was the main environmental scare in the 1980s. A new half-century study shows acid rain doesn’t kill trees— actually, trees grow more with acid rain!
Science Direct- What happens to trees and soils during five decades of experimental nitrogen loading?
Bjorn Lomborg- In 2014, the eco-worried Guardian wrote the obituary of the Great Barrier Reef. Last three years, the Great Barrier Reef has been better than ever since records started in 1986
Globe and Mail- Landmark EU nature restoration plan gets green light despite months of protests by farmers
Under the new law, EU countries will be required to restore at least 30% of habitats such as forests, rivers, grasslands, wetlands, lakes and coral beds deemed in poor condition by 2030. This percentage is set to increase to 60% by 2040 and 90% by 2050. The law also introduces specific requirements for measures to reverse the decline of pollinators.
Reason- California Is Doubling Down on Banning Plastic Bags
“Last year, Californians threw away more plastic bags, by weight, than when the law first passed,” according to a recent New York Times article, which called it “an environmental rule that backfired and inadvertently made the matter worse.”
Two bills are now making their way through the Capitol. Senate Bill 1053 and Assembly Bill 2236 would also ban the thicker plastic bags that replaced the thinner previously-banned bags.
The Telegraph- Eco-friendly brake cables eaten by foxes after switch to soy insulation
Eddie Mitchell, who lives on Broadwater Green in Worthing, the latest target for hungry foxes, said: “Everyone around us has been affected. There’s been at least 20 attacks by foxes on the brakes system under cars.”
Recent photos show multiple cars covered in blue plastic for protection after a spate of attacks.
There’s more important things to deal with first.
Calgary Herald- ‘Just get rid of it’: Single-use items bylaw repeal public hearing to be held Tuesday
The new rules — still technically in effect — require grocery stores, restaurants and other food vendors to impose a minimum $0.15 surcharge on customers for a paper bag or $1 for a new reusable cloth bag at the point of sale. Those rates would have climbed to $0.25 and $2 respectively in 2025.
The bylaw also put the onus on customers to request single-use items and foodware accessories, such as napkins and plastic utensils.
Putting herself ahead of the planet.
Telegraph- My eco-warrior husband wants me to refuse gas and air during labour
While it had never been top of my agenda, I was happy to follow his example – swapping all our cleaning products for eco alternatives, using our bikes to get around and then more recently swapping out the diesel car for an electric one.
However, at a recent antenatal class when we learnt about baby delivery options my husband announced that there was no way I would have gas and air during labour because of the impact on the environment. I laughed out loud when he said it, assuming he was joking.