What’s happening in Sri Lanka? After months of massive protests, President Gotabaya Rajapaska fled the country last month. He’s since resigned over email from the safety of Singapore. Probably a wise move. Crowds had stormed his official residence and set fire to the Prime Minister’s home.
In my last blogpost, I exposed the lie behind the green left’s propaganda. No, we are not on the verge of an oil and gas free green nirvana in Canada driven by popular demand.
In my previous blogpost on “Just Transition”, I wrote about the almost comical “end of the world” predictions of the green left ideologues and how they never come to pass: think of the “coming new ice age” and the dire predictions of the world running out of oil and gas. By now, if they had been right, we humans would probably be nearly extinct, or, at least, freezing in the dark, counting down our final hours.
Operating a farm is hard work. On a typical small farm, you get no vacations or days off. So when tens of thousands of farmers stage massive protests, there must be a serious problem. The recent protests in the Netherlands are a sign that the green agenda will be a disaster for ordinary people.
Last week, the Trudeau/Singh government continued its campaign to raise gas prices. The April 1st , 2022 Carbon Tax Increase was not enough for them. This month, they are finding new ways to crank up the price you pay at the pump. Specifically, this new approach is through new Clean Fuel Regulations, also known as the “Clean Fuel Standard” or “CFS”, for short.
MARK ZACHARIAS AND MERRAN SMITH, in their recent opinion piece, “The fossil-fuel party is raging again, but Canada still needs a plan for the hangover to come” (Globe and Mail, June 14, 2022), they point out that the cyclical nature of the hydrocarbon sector is at a high, but they ominously predict that the cycle will end differently this time, never again to be repeated. This, they imply, is what a Just Transition will deliver.