We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

Alternative Subsidy 6 Comments

Dead in the water.

Shell plc is withdrawing from the Atlantic Shores wind project of New Jersey, writing off nearly $1 billion as the energy major retreats from its earlier pivot toward renewables.

In its quarterly earnings report on Jan. 30, Shell disclosed a $996 million impairment associated with Atlantic Shores, planned as a 2,800-megawatt array of 197 turbines off Long Beach Island and Brigantine, N.J.

“We just don’t see that it fits both our capabilities nor the returns that we would like,” Sinead Gorman, Shell’s chief financial officer, said in a call with reporters Bloomberg reported. “So we took the decision to effectively write that off and pause our involvement.”

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

AI Claws of the Panda Tech 8 Comments

Best and brightest.

US Defense Department employees connected their work computers to Chinese servers to access DeepSeek’s new AI chatbot for at least two days before the Pentagon moved to shut off access, according to a defense official familiar with the matter.

The Defense Information Systems Agency, which is responsible for the Pentagon’s IT networks, moved to block access to the Chinese startup’s website late Tuesday, the official and another person familiar with the matter said. Both asked not to be named because the information isn’t public.

Great Success!

Jonestown Precinct More Pavilions At Folkfest 30 Comments

Toronto Star- Man at centre of biggest Shoppers Drug Mart takedown ever handed conditional sentence — and likely won’t serve jail time

Satnampal Chawla pleaded guilty to trafficking stolen property, after Halton Police orchestrated the biggest police takedown ever at Shoppers Drug Mart, dismantling an organization that had been stealing from 148 locations across Ontario in 2022.

On Wednesday, an Ontario Court judge handed him an 18-month conditional sentence, which includes house arrest for the first six months and a curfew for the following six months.

Obligation To Serve

Alternative Subsidy Ethical Energy Tech 6 Comments

Six Things to Know About Your Electric Utility

Many years ago, a comedy group posted a video featuring actors as average Americans in a slick faux commercial satirizing coal energy. Turns out the coincident target of this mockery was the rest of us and how little we understand about what powers our lives.

“What if the power to sustain your world was right inside a mountain?” asks the narrator. He continues, “What if you could power an entire city for a hundred dollars?” A man in a hard hat says, “Cheap power is clean power. The future is later.” A woman looks soberly at the camera, “Electricity comes from the walls in my home where I live.”

Looking Back

Historical Events 11 Comments

Andrew Potter- Sovereignty is a verb

Any student of Canadian history knows that the borders of Canada are highly contingent. Rewind the tape of the past, and there are any number of moments where things could have turned out differently. In some scenarios, Canada ends up smaller than it currently is; in others, Canada ends up larger, perhaps substantially so. And in some alternative histories, Canada does not exist at all — or if it does, we’re all speaking French.

It’s The Fentanyl Stupid

Jonestown Precinct 36 Comments

Stephen Punwasi- public safety minister just said less than 1% of 🇺🇸’s fentanyl is from 🇨🇦, and ditto for illegal immigrants. Here’s why that’s a whopper of a lie. Warning: Your opinion of 🇨🇦 will irreversibly change.

The Bureau- Exclusive: Briefings to Liberal Government on Chinese Infiltration of Vancouver Port and Canada’s Opioid Scourge Ignored

If you look at the two super labs that were taken down in British Columbia—I think there’s three now—the amount they were capable of producing was more than the whole Vancouver population could have used in 10 years. So we know that Vancouver has become a transshipment point to North America for opiates and cocaine and other drugs because it’s a weak link, and enforcement is not capable of keeping up with transnational organized crime.”

Update: RCMP Officers seize eight kilograms – potentially millions of doses – of fentanyl during traffic stop

Canadian Exceptionalism

Canada’s Bolsheviks Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing 27 Comments

Canada’s basic problem is not Trump; rather, it is that the inmates are now running the asylum.

The collective response of Canada to the expected Trump tariffs was then, predictably, declared to be a negative one involving the imposition of counter-tariffs.

Premier Doug Ford stated that counter-tariffs would be Ontario’s primary response, even before it was known what specific tariffs Trump was proposing. Premier David Eby of B.C. hysterically proclaimed that his province was preparing for “economic war” with the U.S. And Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland — the former finance minister who left the country with a $60-billion deficit and whom Trump most likely regards as the Canadian equivalent of Kamala Harris — trumpeted that she was the best person to lead Team Canada in its future relationship with the U.S.

 

From The Sea To The Swimming Pool

Pallywood Terrorism 23 Comments

Let Israel finish the job.

Related: Trump has issued an executive order allowing the deportation of non-citizens, including foreign students, for supporting groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, which are designated as terrorist organizations by the US.

Meanwhile…

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