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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz seems optimistic that his governing coalition — comprising his center-left Social Democrats, the Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats — will push ahead with the country’s energy transition. He remains optimistic despite Germany’s budget problems, despite growing bureaucratic challenges and a mood of despondency prevalent among large parts of German society.

“If we manage to achieve what we have set out to do, and I am confident that we will, then we will break with 200 years of industrial tradition and prosperity built on coal, gas and oil,” said Scholz, speaking in Potsdam last Monday.

Currently, around 30% of German electricity is still generated by burning coal and gas. Wind turbines, meanwhile, generate almost half of the country’s power. The government aims to shift to fully climate-neutral electricity production primarily by establishing large wind farms far out in the North and Baltic Sea.

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Given that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is costing the average Canadian household hundreds of dollars annually when factoring in its negative impact on the economy, how much is it lowering Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions?

In response to an order paper question by Conservative MP Dan Mazier last week (hat tip to commentator Spencer Fernando for reporting it), Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said:

“The government does not measure the annual amount of emissions that are directly reduced by federal carbon pricing. Retroactively attributing specific GHG reductions to a specific action, such as carbon pricing, a discrete regulation, or a specific incentive, is difficult given the multiple interacting factors that influence emissions, including carbon pricing, tax incentives, funding programs, investor preferences and consumer demand. The National Inventory Report, which reports annually on historical GHG emissions, does not include this information.”

Given that, how can Canadians possibly know if they’re getting good value for the money they’re spending on the carbon tax?

Mazier posted on X that, “Trudeau’s radical Environment Minister admits the government DOES NOT measure how many emissions are ‘reduced’ by their costly carbon tax. Why? Because the carbon tax is not an environmental plan – it’s a tax plan.”

BREAKING NEWS

Trudeau’s radical Environment Minister admits the government DOES NOT measure how many emissions are ‘reduced’ by their costly carbon tax.

Why?

Because the carbon tax is not an environmental plan – it’s a tax plan.

Emissions have gone up since Trudeau. pic.twitter.com/y8qfDn5LJN

— Dan Mazier (@MBDan7) February 2, 2024

Parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux reported last year that 60% of Canadian households paying the federal carbon tax (in all provinces except Quebec and B.C., which have federally-approved carbon pricing plans) are paying more in carbon tax than they receive in climate action incentive rebates, when factoring in its negative impact on the Canadian economy.

The PBO says this will increase to 80% in Nova Scotia in 2025, 80% in Ontario in 2026, 80% in Manitoba in 2029 and 80% in Alberta and P.E.I. in 2030.

Here are the PBO’s estimated net costs for people living in provinces under the federal carbon tax regime. The first figure is the estimated average household cost this year, with the carbon tax at $65 per tonne of emissions, the second in 2030 when it will be $170 per tonne:

Alberta $710, $2,773; Ontario: $478, $1,820; Saskatchewan $410, $1723; Manitoba $386, $1490; Nova Scotia $431, $1,513; P.E.I $465, $1,521; Newfoundland and Labrador $347, $1,316.

The PBO’s calculations did not include New Brunswick because it joined the federal carbon tax system after it did these estimates.

The Trudeau government says 80% of households paying the carbon tax end up better off financially because of the rebate system but, again, the PBO says that’s only true if you don’t factor in its negative impact on the economy.

Mazier’s question about emission reductions was prompted by testimony from Derek Hermanutz, director general of the economic analysis directorate of the federal environment ministry before the Commons environment committee on Nov. 9, 2023 that:

“I think we’re probably in a world where we could say with some rough analysis that up to one-third, potentially, of the emissions reductions that we’re projecting to 2030 would come from carbon pricing.”

In a Dec. 1, 2023 news release, “How pollution pricing reduces emissions,” the federal government simultaneously estimated reductions from the carbon tax as “roughly one-third” and “as much as one-third” of Canada’s emission reductions in 2030.

A chart in the release estimated the carbon tax will reduce Canada’s emissions (670 million tonnes in 2021, according to the latest available government data) by 19 million tonnes in 2022, 24 million tonnes in 2023, 32 million tonnes in 2024, 43 million tonnes in 2025, 49 million tonnes in 2026, 56 million tonnes in 2027, 62 million tonnes in 2028, 70 million tonnes in 2029 and 79 million tonnes in 2030.

Of course, the government isn’t sure because it hasn’t measured the annual amount of emissions directly reduced by the carbon tax since introducing it in 2019.

This also means most reductions the Trudeau government claims will be achieved in 2030 – at least 66% – have to come from measures other than the carbon tax.

As for the carbon tax’s effectiveness as part of what the Trudeau government says is its $200 billion plan to address climate change, Canada’s emissions in 2021 increased by 1.8% to 670 million tonnes compared to 2020.

The Trudeau government’s goal is to reduce Canada’s annual emissions by 40% to 45% compared to 2005 levels in 2030.

In 2021, they were 8.5% lower than 2005 levels.

We won’t know Canada’s 2022 emissions until April, because the government reports them two years after the fact.

The PBO says Canada’s emissions – 1.5% of the global total – are too small to materially impact climate change.

Source: The Toronto Sun

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A team of climate scientists want to launch enormous umbrellas into space to reduce the Earth’s exposure to the sun and fight climate change, The New York Times reported Friday.

The underlying idea is that large parasols could be positioned in space such that they marginally reduce the intensity of sunlight the Earth receives and thereby mitigate some global warming, the Times reported. In order to block out enough radiation, a single sunshade would need to be approximately the size of Argentina — nearly one million square miles — and would weigh about 2.5 million tons, so scientists are looking to prove the idea could work by first producing a 100-square foot prototype with the help of $10 to $20 million of funding.

Dr. Yoram Rozen, a physics professor and the Asher Space Research Institute’s director at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, is leading the team of scientists pushing the idea, according to the Times. Because the Argentina-sized umbrella would be too large to feasibly launch into space, his team is hoping to build a set of smaller shades that would diffuse the intensity of the radiation reaching the planet.

“We can show the world, look, there is a working solution, take it, increase it to the necessary size,” Rozen told the Times.

Rozen and his team are still designing the prototype, but they anticipate that they could build it within about three years once they get the required funds, according to the Times. A full-sized product would cost trillions of dollars, and that expense would likely have to be picked up by many countries, Rozen told the Times.

“We at the Technion are not going to save the planet,” Rozen told the Times. “But we’re going to show that it can be done.”

Supporters of the ambitious sunshade idea posit that, if implemented successfully, the world would still need to stop using fossil fuels to power the global economy, according to the Times.

“I’m not saying this will be the solution, but I think everybody has to work toward every possible solution,” Istvan Szapudi, an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii who recently published a paper examining a similar idea, told the Times.

Source: The dailycaller

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The mining industry in Chile, the world’s top copper producer and second-largest lithium producer, will need more than 34,000 new workers by 2032, according to a study released this week.

The report by the CCM-Eleva Alliance, a joint initiative between the Mining Council and Fundacion Chile, analyzed workforce trends and challenges of 27 mining and supplier companies in the country, representing 96% of the sector.

“The fresh estimation of talents needed in the next decade reflects a growth of 36% compared to what was estimated in the previous study,” said Vladimir Glasinovic, director of the Eleva Program (CCM-Eleva Alliance). “It shows a mining industry that is growing robustly, generating jobs and local development.”

One of the main findings of the study was that demand for human capital will increase by more than a third over the next nine years, compared to the previous edition of the study, published two years ago. The main drivers of this demand for talent are the retirement of workers nearing the end of their careers and the development of new projects in key regions. 

The main projects fuelling demand for new talent, according to the report, are Teck’s Quebrada Blanca 2 (Q2), which produced first copper last year and is ramping up operations; Gold Fields’ Salares Norte, expected to start by April; Antofagasta’s Centinela Mining District, and Anglo American’s Los Bronces expansion, slated tentatively for early 2026.

The study also identified that 75% of the demand for professionals will be concentrated in five types of specialists, with mechanical maintainers topping the list. Mobile equipment operators and fixed equipment operators took the second and third places, respectively.

The study aims to provide relevant information for public policies and industry strategies to address the human capital needs of the mining sector, which is one of the main pillars of Chile’s economy. It also highlighted the progress and challenges in terms of gender equity, technological impact and educational offer available in the country.

Source: CCM-Eleva Alliance Report.

It concluded that female participation in the industry is at 15%, where one in every three hires within mining companies was a woman, and participation in decision-making positions reached 17%.

The figures show that Chile’s female participation percentage in the labor market is below those of developed countries or other economies in the region. However, in terms of womens’ participation in the mining industry, the country is better positioned, above Peru and at the same level than the United States.

Overall, the Chile’s mining industry currently registers the highest employment rate in 12 years, showing a 38% increase with respect to 2020 and 22% compared to 2011.

The full report, “Workforce Study of Large-scale Mining in Chile 2023-2032″ is available here.

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Tucker Carlson just released “Something Big Is About to Happen” and discussed the border as a migration and invasion. Dr. Bret Weinstine is Tucker’s quest, and he covers his visit to the Darien Gap and discussions with Michael Yon. Michael was able to show him all of the camps and the paths that the migrants take from all over the world.

What Tucker and Bret missed was the connection to the US Grid. The Chinese camp can only be described as a military processing camp. The Secretary of Homeland Security visited the Center, and the number of Chinese military-aged men traveling through the camp went up to 10,900 from 900 in the previous 100 days.

Why is this important? I have been talking about grid security for years, and the ability for the Chinese-purchased main grid interconnects has been documented, and now confirmed by the US. Officials. The story “US Officials Deliver Warning that Chinese Hackers are Targeting Infrastructure – Warning About The Real Question – Is Mayorkas in on it?  was posted on January 31st. It covers more of the FBI warnings and descriptions of the topics covered by Tucker, Michael Yon, and Dr. Bret Weinstine. The grid can be brought down remotely, and with 10s of thousands of military-aged men in the country – you should be aware.

Please follow Michael Yon on his Substack, Twitter, and LinkedIn. He is a national treasure that has been battle-tested and should be listened to. I appreciate his efforts in sharing his travels and his leadership. George McMillian and I have talked about Michael and George’s travels through the Panama and Darien Gap areas.

https://t.co/41KMcKIW6M Michael – here is our podcast that talks about your trip to the Darien Gap.

— STUART TURLEY – Energy Podcast Host (@STUARTTURLEY16) February 4, 2024

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https://youtu.be/1XhsgQ48fGs?si=rElwavSFRHQDj7I_ Tucker’s Interview

Highlights of the Podcast

01:34 – Chinese grid equipment coming

05:32 – The Panama Canal Railway

11:38 – The IOM helps the invaders get through from Colombia

29:29 – The Chinese Communist Party

33:16 – The Canadian border and increasing numbers

38:09 – The vaccine before the Palestinians

52:36 – The war in Ukraine and got into some combat stuff

1:19:57 – The factories and people are still smoking dope in America

1:24:22 – The biggest gas field in Europe

1:30:20 – The Second Amendment folks to try to bring in the U.N.

1:41:07 – The Chinese Communist Party and the World Economic Forum

1:47:56 – The structure of lies and truth

The video below is from Michael Yon on his trip to Panama and traveling with George McMillan going through the Darien Gap. I appreciate both George and Michael’s time to tell me about their trips and the connections they are seeing.

The camps not controlled by the Chinese are all funded by the UN and other NGOs. The following are from Michael on their trip. George even commented that he has also seen these same NGOs worldwide facilitating migrations of people. The UN NGO headquarters is right in the open on the Panama Canal. Michael took this shot.

Thank you, Michael Yon, for your efforts to help get the story out. The migrants are being used as pawns, and no one will have a better life. The energy sector can help solve the problems, but we need to watch who we elect and hold all of them accountable for our tax dollars. I recommend defunding the UN and electing all new leadership. If you are a current politician from any party, you have not had America first. As a humanitarian, it is sad that people are being sold into slavery and sex trafficked, and our energy security has been compromised. We can provide low-cost power to everyone if we work together and do not print money. The UN, WHO, WEF, and IMF must be tossed out. As the world awakens, it will get more interesting and hazardous.

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Wind firm Orsted will present its new strategy on Wednesday
Company faces dilemma of cutting targets or raising capital
Cutting dividend, asset sales could restore confidence -analysts

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