In 2015, Canada, along with 194 other countries, signed on to the Paris Agreement. This Agreement, devised by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), called on all signees to make a commitment to lower their carbon emissions by the year 2030. However, it set no objective baseline – each nation could set … Continued
Our last blogpost was intended to illuminate where Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Erin O’Toole has positioned himself on issues affecting the affordability of energy. Today, we are doing the same with a second candidate, Peter MacKay. Let’s take a close look. MacKay has come out against carbon taxes. But so has every candidate … Continued
CPC leadership candidate and Ontario MP Erin O’Toole released his platform a few weeks ago. Within 24 hours he had backtracked his positioning on energy. It seems that walking the line between keeping grassroots conservatives happy and maintaining a quasi-green image is a more difficult task than O’Toole anticipated. Memo to Erin: the greens are … Continued
Last week it was Germany. Now it is the United Kingdom. It seems that expensive “green energy” policies are taking the world by storm. According to a new report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, consumers in the UK are paying more and more for an inefficient, fragile electricity system through a charge on their … Continued
Here comes another cautionary tale about the dangers of “green energy.” This one is out of Germany – the green energy utopia of Europe. Energy consumers in Germany are getting stuck with the bill for expensive clean energy contracts. Sounds familiar? It is the exact situation Ontarians find themselves in thanks to the notorious McGuinty-Wynne … Continued
A fall 2020 election is looking more and more appealing to the Trudeau Liberals. Nik Nanos, founder of Nanos Research, and Pollster Greg Lyle of Innovative Research said in a Hill Times article this week that fall 2020 is an ideal time for the Liberals to win back their majority. This should set off alarm … Continued
Last week I wrote about Gerald Butts and his instrumental role in the disastrous McGuinty-Wynne era Green Energy Act in Ontario. As Butts returns to Ottawa as a member of the “Task Force for Resilient Recovery”, let’s recall his time in the Trudeau PMO and the climate obsession that marks everything he touches, always leaving … Continued
The controversy surrounding Michael Moore’s new film, Planet of the Humans, grew this week when YouTube took it down due to a copyright claim. Toby Smith, a nature photographer from the UK, accused Jeff Gibbs, the film’s director, of using 4 seconds of Smith’s proprietary footage, thereby violating fair usage. In a now deleted tweet, … Continued
Gerald Butts, the former top advisor to Justin Trudeau who left government following the Jody Wilson-Raybould scandal, has returned to Ottawa. This time, he is working as a member of a new crack team task force called Resilient Recovery. The task force, made up of green industry and environmental leaders, says its goal is to … Continued
The energy industry’s weekly reminder that the federal government is actually against them came last Wednesday with the announcement of the LEEFF fund. LEEFF, or “Large Employer Emergency Financing Facility” is a COVID-19 era program that was created to provide loans to companies that can demonstrate approximately $300-million or more in annual revenues. Conditions apply. … Continued