climate-change – NEWSMAGRENFREW

Use it or lose it.

There are any number of situations or circumstances where that expression is credible, and one of them seemed to be the generation of electricity, whether that be through hydro (water), nuclear, natural gas-fired, or coal-fired. Regardless of the means of generation, electric power has storage problems that raise the possibility of having a valuable, albeit renewable source of energy being wasted if demand falls short of generation.

Calling electricity a renewable resource makes it sound like it’s clean energy, and there’s no reason why that can’t be true. Hydro-electricity is about as clean as you’re going to get, but it has limitations in terms of its dependence upon sources of moving water, as in rivers, and the enormous costs involved with the construction of generation dams and the lines of transmission that convey the electricity generated to the markets where it will be consumed.

All well and good.

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Well, it’s toast, or about as toast as we’re gonna get without having the actual toast in hand.

Ding-dong, the witch is dead.

The witch I speak of is the Carbon Tax, perhaps the most hated thing to waft through the Canadian consciousness since, well, the Carbon Tax. Or maybe the GST, but that’s still with us thirty-five years after it was going to be scrapped, which is what we do here in Canada when we don’t like something, we scrap it.

Scrap gives the impression of something cast away in disgust, almost as if garbage, almost as if we’re absolutely disgusted with it. We can’t just get rid of it, or replace it, or make it better somehow. In Canada, we scrap things.

Pierre Poilievre, more than anyone, can take credit for this, so give credit where credit is due. At least when he sets out to scrap something, as in a tax on carbon, the only thing that suffers damage is the environment. Doug Ford’s anti-carbon levy campaign has cost Ontarians the same environmental price, but also millions of dollars in losses to go along with it.

But it’s not just Conservatives now, it’s Liberals too. The two front-runners for the Liberal leadership. Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney have both indicated that they will discontinue to Carbon Tax is they’re successful at replacing Justin Trudeau.

So I guess that’s that.

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Do you want facts or slogans?

Facts pay you money. Slogans cost you money. They say “money talks.” Can it speak loudly enough to bust through the wet blanket of misinformation thrown down by Slogan Boy, aka Pierre Poilievre, aka O’l Whiny Pete?

Will people vote with their heads or through their assholes? I’ll have to let you answer that for yourself.

Following is a brief summary of the carbon tax. No, I’m not calling it the “Climate Initiative” like the Liberals would prefer because that just muddies the water. A tax is a tax is a tax, and I’m not afraid of the word. Everything costs money, and we know that. And now it’s the turn of climate change.

Or, you can be a Conservative, which gives you two options: you can lie through your teeth or stick your head in the sand. It’s a really good look for a person with no self-respect.

Anyways, if you want the plain facts, here they are:

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ONEIDA GROUP PAIRS WIND WITH BATTERIES

THE CARBON TAX IS DEAD

A QUICK TIMELINE ON THE SO-CALLED CARBON TAX