Elizabeth May says she's willing to go to jail in the fight against the Kinder Morgan pipeline. #cdnpoli #hw pic.twitter.com/o2oQMvElmN
— JULIE VAN DUSEN (@JULIEVANDUSEN) November 29, 2016
Let Them Eat Lead
The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford and the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC, is the first global analysis to estimate the impacts that levying emissions prices on food could have on greenhouse gas emissions and human health.
The findings show that about one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided in the year 2020 if emissions pricing of foods were to be implemented, more than the total current emissions from global aviation.
Vancouver? What have you done?
Via, DanBC:
Vancouver votes to ban natural gas by 2050.
Oh, of course:
Mayor Gregor Robertson led the charge on the Renewable City Strategy which passed this summer. He is a vocal critic of oil and gas development and was a director Tides Canada from 2002 until 2004.
A wing-nut. More at the CTF.
Robertson wants a 70 per cent cut in natural gas use in new buildings by 2020, and 90 per cent gone within ten years. All natural gas use in Vancouver will be banned by 2050 at the latest.
#NotACult Noooonono.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Y2Kyoto: The Green Gestapo
Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker agreed Wednesday to withdraw his climate-related subpoena of ExxonMobil, a stunning reversal that delivered a blow to the Democratic-led effort to prosecute climate change dissent.[…]
The retreat also comes as an ominous sign for AGs United for Clean Power, a coalition of 17 attorneys general, including Mr. Walker, formed in March to pursue the fossil fuel industry and others that challenge the catastrophic climate change narrative for “fraud.”
h/t Ken (Kulak)
Y2Kyoto: The Green Gestapo
If Skeptics can be Prosecuted for Fraud, So can Alarmists
h/t Dave
Working Title: “DIE INDUSTRY, DIE”
Five things to know about pending Liberal overhaul of environmental assessments
6. OCEANS AND FISHERIES GOVERNANCE OF DRY PRAIRIE ROADSIDE DITCHES TO BE RESTORED. https://t.co/HxFBt9KVzP
— Katewerk (@katewerk) June 21, 2016
“Fuck off, Fascist”
Alex Epstein responds to Massachussettes attorney general’s subpoena for private or confidential correspondence.
Death By Papercut
It’s here! The consolidated Energy East application has arrived, all 38,885 pages of it: https://t.co/HyRFTkuqix pic.twitter.com/QLCDAmWBQ1
— NEB Canada (@NEBCanada) May 17, 2016
Y2Kyoto: The Green Gestapo
Dissent will not be tolerated.
The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is targeting dozens of conservative and libertarian organizations in a racketeering lawsuit against climate change skeptics that has been widely described as an effort to silence political opponents.
In a subpoena issued in March, the office of USVI attorney general Claude Walker demanded from Exxon Mobil copies of communications between the oil company and 90 different political and policy organizations “and any other organizations engaged in research or advocacy concerning Climate Change or policies.”
They’re just following orders: Big Green’s Dirty Power
h/t Adrian, Bob
Wynneing!
A chicken in every pot, a gun to every head;
Things just got a whole lot brighter in Canada for the dismal electric-car business. Word has leaked that the country’s largest province is preparing to help buy a plug-in vehicle or hybrid for millions of families across the province — or will at least force those families to buy one. The details of how Ontarians are getting all those green vehicles weren’t clear in the confidential draft version of the Wynne Liberals’ “Climate Change Action Plan” leaked to The Globe and Mail on Wednesday. But the goals are crystal clear: A promise to get 1.7 million low-emission cars on the roads in the next eight years, and pull seven million gas-powered cars off in the next 14.
That’s in addition to making sure 80 per cent of us ride transit or walk or bike to work, and ensuring the majority of the buildings in the province are “emissions-free” by 2050. And to engineer this great, gleaming, green society, the Liberals will create a brand new monopolistic government behemoth, a “new ultra-low-carbon utility” that will have a sweeping mandate to micro-engineer how you get to work, how you heat your home, and how the economy is powered.
Or, there are always elections.
Y2Kyoto: The Green Gestapo
Federal law makes it a felony “for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the Unites States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same).”
I wonder if U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, or California Attorney General Kamala Harris, or New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman have read this federal statute. Because what they’re doing looks like a concerted scheme to restrict the First Amendment free speech rights of people they don’t agree with. They should look up 18 U.S.C. Sec. 241, I am sure they each have it somewhere in their offices.
The Sound Of Settled Science
A group of prominent scientists have united for an odd quest: to reduce funding for science education. They’ve joined with environmental groups and progressive activists to demand that hundreds of museums of science and natural history “cut all ties with the fossil fuel industry and funders of climate science obfuscation,” which means rejecting donations or investment dividends from anyone who doesn’t meet their standard of purity.
h/t Terry
Red Rose Country
The self-sufficient, freedom loving Alberta of our national political history is just that: history.
Learning is good.
A correlation study on earthquakes, fracking and waste-water injection.
That doesn’t mean that a lot of wells cause earthquakes. Eaton calculates that about 0.3 per cent of fracked wells create problems.
But there are enough wells drilled for even that tiny fraction to be a concern.
This study, of course, will soon be cited by the same people that say a six percent Muslim population is perfectly safe.
Y2Kyoto: Gentlemen, Cut Your Engines
EPA Putting Red Light on Amateur Car Racing;
A “power grab” by the Environmental Protection Agency threatens to crash America’s amateur car-racing industry without putting so much as a dent in climate change, warns the chairman of the House Space, Science and Technology Committee.
The EPA’s move to regulate emissions on non-road racing vehicles contradicted agency administrator Gina McCarthy’s earlier testimony that the EPA did not have authority over non-road race cars and motorcycles.
EPA officials said they are “clarifying” emissions law, yet the Clean Air Act has long exempted non-road vehicles used in competition. The agency has not made a similar move against NASCAR or other professional race circuits.
They know not to mess with the donor class.
Bill’s Wife
.@HillaryClinton brags about destroying coal country. Just when I thought she couldn't be anymore unqualified… pic.twitter.com/i8IYv7P92u
— Dr. Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 14, 2016
Related – So what exactly is going on here? Why won’t Bernie Sanders go away?
Y2Kyoto: The Green Gestapo
Donna LaFramboise: Last week, an appalling complaint was filed against the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) by Survival International, an organization that champions the human rights of indigenous people. Invoking a process normally used against multinational corporations, the complaint accuses the WWF of abusing and victimizing rain forest dwellers in Cameroon.
The Libranos: All Hail Our Carbon Taxing Overlords
Great moments in naiveté: “Insufficient political will”.
A conservative estimate of Canada’s existing carbon-absorption capacity, based on land area and the global carbon-absorption average, indicates that Canada could already be absorbing 20 to 30 per cent more CO2 than we emit. Using the same calculation, the “Big Four” polluters of China, the U.S., the European Union, and India, which together are responsible for a whopping 60 per cent of global CO2 emissions, release 10 times more CO2 than their combined land area absorbs. Canada doesn’t seem very dirty now, do we?
So when was the last time you heard a Canadian political leader, let alone the media, talk about our carbon-absorption capacity? Probably never, because we are currently ignoring that side of the equation, for a couple reasons…
h/t Ottawa MJ