You get carbon capture, and you get carbon capture …

Climate Cult youmightbeinsaskatchewan 8 Comments
Boundary Dam Power Station

When the SaskPower Boundary Dam 3 carbon capture project opened in 2014, nobody followed. The tech looked doomed as recently as a few months ago. On May 11, the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed that all coal and most natural gas power plants have carbon capture applied by 2038, or shut down.

Interestingly enough, last year, when I asked Crown Investments (and SaskPower) Minister Don Morgan if we would be doing any more carbon capture on coal, he said it was “not an option.” So, in Canada, it’s not an option, but in the US, it looks like it may soon be mandatory.

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Alternative Subsidy climategate Great Reset Subsidy Fraud Boy 30 Comments

It’s not about the emissions, it was never about emissions.

The rush to subsidize and mandate EVs is animated by a fatal conceit: the assumption that they will radically reduce CO2 emissions. That assumption is embedded orthodoxy not just among green pundits and administrators of the regulatory state but also among EV critics, who take issue with a forced transition mainly on grounds of lost freedoms, costs, and market distortions.

But the truth is, because of the nature of uncertainties in global industrial ecosystems, no one really knows how much widespread adoption of EVs could reduce emissions, or whether they might even increase them. (And no, this has nothing to do with the truth / joke that Teslas are coal-fired when fueled at night in many places.) While grid realities will indeed matter more than most realize, the relevant and surprising emissions wildcard comes from the gargantuan, energy-hungry processes needed to make EV batteries. This is one of those technical issues that tends to attract slogans, simplifications, and illusions of accuracy; a better understanding requires some patience.

That’s why “whose the biggest emitter” is a losing argument. The electrification of everything is fueled by rent seeking, political donations and naked cronyism. Emissions are just the cover story.

Scratch A Leftist

Baiting The Left Children R Our Future The Tolerant Left 2 Comments

Find an anti-Semite.

Ian Oxnevad from the National Association of Scholars told Campus Reform that the “biggest source” of anti-Semitism in American culture is the progressive left, and in particular leftist academia.

Oxnevad is a Program Research Associate with the National Association of Scholars (NAS), which recently published an extensive report on the history, financial connections, and current campus presence of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement.

Campus Reform previously covered how pro-BDS activists targeted the event announcing the publication of Oxnevad’s report by signing up over 150 fake attendee names to prevent legitimate patrons from attending.

The report details the complex organizational history of the BDS movement from its origins in the early 2000s to the present day. It explains how BDS is intimately connected with a variety of progressive leftist organizations at the national and international levels.

“BDS specifically comes from academia,” Oxnevad explained. “It gives the impression that it’s just a sort of organic, spontaneous thing [but] it’s not.”

Nothing that arises on the left is “organic”. Collectivists are by their nature followers, not leaders.

Thursday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 16 Comments

Biden’s America:  Evil in art.  Is Biden’s presidency collapsing?  Normalizing pedophilia.  Mayorkas runs American foreign policy.  The media assault on Clarence Thomas.  Your morning meme.

Trudeau’s Canada:  Justin is busy hiding Canadian history (CBC).  And the Legion isn’t happy about it.  A free hockey seminar(except if you are a white male).  Trudeau burns jet fuel to South Korea and Japan next week. There Dear Leader will rant about global warming and feminism.  Liberals defend Chinese interference.

Today In Islam:  Jihad in Australia (JW).  And Jihad in Austria (JW).  Muslims want Canadian news censored.

Woke Britain:  A British guy explains the King’s coronation.  The gender neutral loos.  Archbishop trashes the government’s migration policy.

“This takeover of the Democratic Party has been a carefully choreographed hijacking.”

Democrats Trump 25 Comments

Jeff Goldstein: Western liberalism is being replaced. What comes next is illiberal to its core.

This use of the legal system as punishment — lawfare — goes beyond mere political vindictiveness. This is, in fact, common practice post-Trump. It is the normalizing of political prosecution by partisan actors using the legal system as cover in a way that appeals to American sensibilities, especially the aesthetic, “rule of law,” which we’re conditioned to believe, in a neutral sense, we still live under. But we don’t. These aren’t real trials. They’re simulacra. We’ve become a Potemkin democracy. Nothing is as it seems. All is power. And power is all.

Why did SaskPower so quietly go ahead with a new power plant?

Climate Cult youmightbeinsaskatchewan 39 Comments
Aspen Power Station render. SaskPower

Is national unity at stake?

SaskPower will be building a new $850 million natural gas power station near Lanigan, starting in under a year. More than half of its power will go to the BHP Jansen potash mine, the crown jewel of Saskatchewan’s economy. But Steven Guilbeault and Justin Trudeau want to shut down all natural gas power stations by 2035.

Irresistible force is about to meet immovable object, and national unity is on the line.

Oh, and for good measure, Bill C-69 is involved.

Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa

Alternative Subsidy Climate Cult Y2Kyoto 18 Comments

They really don’t like you, and they’re doing something about it.

In Enemies of Progress, author Austin Williams suggests that ‘the mantra of sustainability’ starts with the assumption that humanity is ‘the biggest problem of the planet’, rather than the ‘creators of a better future’. Indeed, many climate scientists and green activists see having fewer people on the planet as a key priority. Their programme calls not only for fewer people and fewer families, but also for lower consumption among the masses. They expect us to live in ever smaller dwelling units, to have less mobility, and to endure more costly home heating and air-conditioning. These priorities are reflected in a regulatory bureaucracy that, if it does not claim justification from God, acts as the right hand of Gaia and of sanctified science.

They will never admit to failure: To aspiring central planners and their enablers in the media, empirical evidence that their policies are backfiring is merely proof of the need to double down. From this, a horde of otherwise intelligent people earnestly believes that proactively destabilizing the grid is not the cause of grid instability.

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