Does the Green Lobby own our Government?

Are the opposition MPs asleep at the wheel? Are they benefitting from donations from the industry or the myth that jobs are created?

Where are the Case Studies for Windfarms in Canada?

I understand the media and opposition MPs are unhappy about spending $ 2 million to promote Ontario, through the Canada Pavillon to 3,300 captive international reporters.

Here is a link to another expense the media and opposition should attack next. 2010 links here

Are Windmill Farms the new tourist draw?

h/t Wind Concerns Ontario

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Liberals, NDP Coalition: Share Anti-Americanism

The coalition of the Liberals and Democrats have some common traits they can build on.

• Both parties live to redistribute wealth through taxation.
• Anti-Americanism
• Liberals, NDP will abandon key planks to gain power

Paul Martin decided it was expedient to inflame the anti-Americanism during the campaign in 2005-06 at an International Conference held in Montreal.

PM Martin decided the U.S. lacked a "global conscience" for not adopting the Kyoto Protocol.

Frank McKenna in 2006 submission to the Liberal Party renewal commission.

Our relationship with the U.S. must be characterized maturity and confidence. Canadian political leadership must help form Canadian public opinion on the importance of the relationship. Our credibility will be greatly enhanced if we save our disagreements for matters of great importance. Picking a fight with our American neighbours for the sake of political expediency undermines our credibility and our influence on important matters. Report Drips with unspoken contempt

Jack Layton on PM Paul Martin
"We have one of the worst environmental records in the world. In fact, if you can believe it, our greenhouse gas emissions are rising faster than those of George Bush's United States."

thanks Jack, you are correct to ignore China, every other country that have larger Greenhouse emmissions to single out Canada.

Five years later, the NDP still blames Canada's contribution that is just over two per cent of the global greenhouse gas emmissions. (1.9% 2005- 2.3% in 2009 an increase of 0.4%)

What about China Jack?

The country built 114,000 megawatts of fossil-fuel-based generating capacity last year alone, almost all coal-fired, and is on course to complete 95,000 megawatts more this year.

The Liberals and Democrats deserve each other. They ignore reality for cheap shots.

Professor Johnson, who expressed surprise that the case for global warming was so weak, systematically examined the claims made in IPCC publications and other similar work by leading climate establishment scientists and compared them with what is found in the peer-edited climate science literature. He found that the climate establishment does not follow the scientific method. Instead, it “seems overall to comprise an effort to marshal evidence in favor of a predetermined policy preference.”

We Get Giant Fans and More Dirty Coal: Thanks Dalton

The McGuinty Government has issued a shareholder directive giving Ontario Power Generation permission to increase the output of its dirty coal-fired power plants by 17%, in each year from 2011 to 2014 inclusive, relative to its actual level of coal-fired electricity generation in 2009- Wind Concerns Ontario

If you are unhappy about the double-digit increases in your hydro bills don't forget to call your local Liberal MP.

If your city or local government can stop the windfarm or energy plant in your backyard don't forget to call your local Liberal MP.

A majority can be a wonderful thing for a political party. Too bad Ontario voters did not realize how chasing the Green Jobs Myth was going to cost more than just dollars.

Where is the evidence, business case models in Spain, Norway, Portugal, California of successful Windfarms?

Global Leadership: Green Jobs beyond the Lobbyist?

Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will have their hands full during the G8 meetings. I have a question where is the evidence of those green jobs in Europe or California?

The leaders of the European Union are crafting a second plan this weekend that will see all members pledge to cut deficits with “great speed” in an effort to stop the spread of the Greek debt crisis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is among the most influential E.U. leaders, outlined the plan Saturday following a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. here.

“I don’t think we should forget the primary crisis here, the fundamental crisis, is not in the financial sector. It is in the finances of certain governments,” he said. “It’s important for all countries to understand that high levels of deficit and debt cannot continue indefinitely and in some countries they are very high and that issue does have to be tackled and it has to be tackled not just in Europe but across the globe.”- Prime Minister Stephen Harper

The opposition parties of Liberals, Democrats, Separatist in Quebec are now are in agreement with increasing or freezing tax cuts on large corporations to balance the deficit? Are these Band of Merrymen promising to use it towards lowering our deficit or is this just another opportunity to play Robin Hood?

If we examine the cuts in policies, programs the lobbied corporations are benefitting from getting exemptions in Germany leaving the middle class and small business owner to pick up the "green tab".

Cash For Clunkers in the U.S. and Europe has been sold as a Green Program to help the planet earth. Check out the clip on the privacy agreement in the U.S. here.

To get the full $4,500, those new cars must be at least 10 mpg more fuel efficient than the older model they replace, and trucks must be 5 mpg more efficient.  It has been great for getting our loan repaid ahead of schedule, auto sales are up as a Canadian owner in  G.M., Chrysler compliments of our auto bailout I am scratching my head. This is lobbying helping the unions, large companies repair their balance sheets. I don't see how this helps the environment.

...you do the numbers, the idea that you can go green by trading in your old car for a new one as quickly as possible is car-crash logic

Does history prove the regulations, "tax breaks",  financial incentives are given as a result of lobbying? If so shoud we examine if relationships exist that might pose a conflict or bias?

We have been hearing for the last few days about an ex-MP Rahim Jaffer who failed to win any  "Green Energy" contracts. We heard later from John Baird about a web page advertising lobbying from a Liberal MP.

Is the Green Energy Lobby big? Here is link on some books on one party of the Green Lobby  "Global Warming", it appears a large number of trees may have died to sell those books. As an Ontario resident going to be hit with double digits rate increases in my hydro and the H.S.T. I am wondering if the media in Canada are paying attention.

The Green Energy Act was originally proposed by the Ontario Green Energy Act Alliance,1 a coalition of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association, together with other trade associations, developers, manufacturers, and environmental groups including the David Suzuki Foundation, Environmental Defence Canada, Pembina Institute and World Wildlife Fund Canada. Their proposal eventually formed the basis of the Green Energy Act.

Does our Canadian mainstream media have any interest or research to investigate if advocates, staff, lobbyists are benefitting from "Global Warming" in Canada beyond the busty hookers Rahim narrative? Do these Green lobbyists have potential conflicts or bias in changing the regulations or framing the traditional sources of energy natural gas, oil, coal, nuclear enery industry in a negative light?

Who is employed in these think tanks, environmental advocacy groups and do they have a financial interest or a common agenda that might benefit from framing the fossil fuel industry as greedy capitalists whose intent is to harm the planet earth?

• Pembina Institute
• David Suzuki Foundation
• Environmental Defence Canada
• World Wildlife Fund Canada
• Pollution Probe

This is an open question and not intended to be critical or suggest anything is overtly wrong. It is skeptic asking for our Canadian media to dig deeper and look at all the players and inform us.

Pembina Institute - John Robinson Secretary, is also a professor with the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, and the Department of Geography, at the University of British Columbia. He has been a Lead Author in the last three reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Layton calls for halt to tar sands approvals

Jack Layton, NDP calls for a moratorium on the Oilsands?

"We're looking at the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the world," he said, "and Mr. Harper is responsible because he is giving away the store to big oil companies." Layton has demanded a moratorium on oil sands development, and criticized the "tax grab" it provides to oil and gas companies.

Oils sands account for 1%, Canada 2% of Carbon Emissions?

Environmental Defence works with individual Canadians, decision-makers and businesses to make the environment a top priority.

Mike Layton, after working for the provincial NDP, Layton was hired by Environmental Defence, where he's deputy director, and helped organize the Green Energy Act Alliance.

Are the middle class, small business owners going to benefit with the twenty per cent increase hydro rates to build those Windmills bird choppers in Ontario? Can the small business owner pass along those costs? Spain followed the Green Myth of Jobs nearly a decade ago, it has unemployment over 18-19% for two years.

Chair, Board of Directors, Ian Morton - Pollution Probe

When Ian Morton declares, with a certain evangelism, that "green is the new black," one can't help but believe him. But he's also right. Big brands are finally recognizing that good works can equal good ROI. Morton tapped into the thinking before it became trendy, funneling his 16 years of working for a variety of environmental organizations, into starting Summerhill Group in 2001, a Toronto agency that does ROI-friendly strategies for clients to help move the market toward better choices for consumers and the environment.Strategyonline

A New Transformation
The buzz generated by President Obama’s recent visit to Ottawa has exposed our craving for visionary and inspired leadership in Canada. We are living in a period of tremendous economic uncertainty and opportunity; a time that requires a decisive action plan to transform Canada into a global leader in renewable energy, innovative technology, and "know-how". Areas that will create high paying jobs and a cleaner environment for future generations.

Ian Morton is Founder & Chief Executive Officer of the Summerhill Group. Ian is a recognized leader on environment issues; responsible for creating some of the most innovative and effective public engagement programs on air quality, climate change, and healthy housing in Canada. Ian was instrumental in the creation of the Clean Air Foundation and Healthy Indoors Partnership and has won several awards in honour of his work. He was named by Strategy Magazine as one of seven marketing leaders to watch in 2006 and was appointed to an advisory panel of eminent Canadians to provide advice and assistance to the Government of Canada at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference in Indonesia in 2007. He has been personally trained on the Climate Project by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.


The Conservative government needs to terminate spending in wasteful programs. Are the programs being initiated in the name of Green Energy real and cost effective? If so where are the case studies from Norway, Spain, Germany, California? Has their use of Carbon based fossil fuels gone down and if not why and how much have they spent in chasing the Green Jobs Myth?

Cultural Wars: Teabaggers Canadian Style

Cultural Warrior Princess Susan Riley, latest "hit" piece masquerading as News. In my opinion is should be moved to the opinion section  possibly comics.

Susan roughly 250 people showed up to exercise their democratic opinion at Queens Park, are these our Republican "tea baggers"?-Wind Concerns Ontario




Let's start with the first article:

The larger question is how post-Harper Conservatives will deal with climate change and the environment -- should they get the chance. Will they embrace the prescient, Earth-friendly approach of Mulroney, Charest and Arnold Schwarzenegger, or will they make common cause with climate-deniers, oil patch foot-draggers and Sarah Palin Republicans? -Ottawa Citizen Feb 28, 2010

Not sure if Susan has read any news on economic health from California, Quebec lately. Who is going to pay for those socialist programs and policies, the taxpayer. (Susan try googling  "California Debt", "Quebec Debt", please sit down before hitting return)

Perhaps Susan Riley warrior princess missed a few headlines lately from non-Canadian news sources?


The anxieties about “sovereign debt” have been most acute in Europe, where the infelicitously named PIIGS countries—Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain—have huge debt burdens, and where Greece in particular is in dire need of assistance. (It owes four hundred billion dollars, against an annual G.D.P. of around three hundred and forty billion and shrinking.) And now people are wondering if American state governments are headed for their own Greek tragedy. - New Yorker April 12, 2010

An analysis by the Quebec Ministry of Finance suggests the province has one of the most heavily indebted economies in the industrialized world.
The 44-page document calculates the province's total debt as 94 per cent of GDP, employing methods used by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The government report, available on the ministry's website, compares the total provincial public debt with that of other Canadian provinces and to major industrialized nations.
Quebec ranks only below Japan, Italy, Greece and Iceland in terms of public debt as a percentage of GDP. The report calculates public debt across Canada as 69.7 per cent of the country's GDP.
The report puts Quebec's total public debt at $285.6 billion.- The Spec.com March 01, 2010

When cutting carbon emissions is the name of the game, a casual scan around the world might indicate that since Copenhagen, even the most ardent party animals are having a bad dose of cold feet.-BBC April 27, 2010

The United States on Thursday finalized its first greenhouse gas emissions rules on automobiles and significantly boosted fuel efficiency standards for the first time since the 1970s, moves Canada jointly imposed on its industry. - Reuters April 20, 2010

Second Article
Of course there is a culture war raging in federal politics. It's been going on since Preston Manning blew into Ottawa many years ago.
The battle lines are clear. Elitist, cosmopolitan (code for gay, or gay-friendly), urban CBC-lovers -- including "left-wing fringe groups", anti-Israel aid agencies and pro-gay judges -- on one side. Frugal small town and suburban Canadians who work hard, pay their taxes, and play by the rules on the other. Ottawa Citizen April 30, 2010

Does Princess Warrior Susan Riley read the news, get her research directly from political parties, special interest group websites that have a financial interest in adopting a Cap & Trade policy?

What is Canada's contribution to the Global carbon emmisions? Should Canada unilaterally adopt a tax regime to become less competitive with our trading partners?

Susan, where are the charts figures comparison to effects of buying windmills in Norway, Germany, carbon taxes?

Should Canada also adopt a Global Bank Tax for the failures in the oversight regulation in the US, UK, Iceland and Greece?

Is Canada allowed to make its own decision in her best interests?

Are only Elitist, cosmopolitan (code for gay, or gay-friendly), urban CBC-lovers -- including "left-wing fringe groups", anti-Israel aid agencies and pro-gay judges capable of making informed decisions?

Homeowners are asking questions about the how much will this increase my property taxes, energy for the green agenda and does it make sense.  Why are provincial governments moving ahead negotiating secret deals increasing our hydro rates for twenty years? (Susan did you notice all three provincial governments pushing increased taxes have Liberal majorities?)

How does Susan Riley frame opponents to taxes and energy rates increases? Are homeowners concerned about double digit increase in the cost of living "tea baggers", climate denier, oil patch owners,  American Republicans?

How did Prime Minister Brown refer to the labour supporter for voicing her concerns about jobs, immigration a few days ago?

You will NOT dismiss or marginalize us. We are not not bigots, knuckle draggers, religious extremists.

Present the charts, facts figures of the Carbon Emmisions Exchange, windmills benefits cost analysis in the European countries that adopted the green jobs myth to the homeowners.

Let's see the evidence based facts why we should follow the Europeans.

Instead of using evidence based facts what does Susan Riley choose? Does she follow the Jean Chretien, Peter Donolo's strategy of dividing us of the 1990's?

Our Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not John Turner, Canadians will not buy anti american rhetoric in 2010. Time is up and the price will be paid in the ballot box for the political parties that rekindle this cultural war.

Inconvenient Facts: We have a large deficit we need to get under control. We need to reduce wasteful spending. Homeowners don't have the capacity to add thirty per cent increase to their cost of living. We are dependent on the recovery of the Global economy.

How much are the programs from the municpal, provincial, federal politicans going to cost us taxpayers and who will benefit?

How much more are European paying for their use of fossil fuel? How much have taxes gone up, including national deficits in order to pay for the Green Carbon myth?

Canada accounts for 2% of the Global Carbon Emmision. The Democrats under Clinton/Gore never signed Kyoto. The Liberals never made an effort to address Carbon Emmissions. Green Agenda Activists have bet big on pushing end of the world scenarios unless we curb economic activity. How does creating a carbon exchange clean up the pollution next door, it doesn't.

Do the politicians, snake oil salesmen benefit financially from taxes going into buying Carbon credits?

Europeans are dealing with their deficits reducing their Green Jobs programs, they cut special deals for their protected industries. We have a small population spread throughout the second largest country in the world.

We are a Global Energy Superpower whose GDP and economic strength rely on resource extraction.

• Oil (Oilsands, offshore)
• Forestry
• Mining, (Potash, Nickel, Diamonds etc)
• Hydro

The second article is more disturbing with less evidence based facts in support. Let's see the evidence based facts on why millions should be diverted for your idealogical agenda.

 

Maternal health

• Safe clean drinking water, food security
• Sustainable energy industry
• Anti-Malaria Programs
• Shelter, infrastructure

To the average Canadian, the obvious objective of maternal health programs would be to make motherhood and childbearing safer. Not so for many UN agencies, donor countries and powerful NGOs working at the United Nations. Their approach is to make motherhood safer by making it rarer. At the expense of the world's pregnant women, maternal health has become the latest vehicle for an old idea -- population control as a path to development. -Ottawa Citizen April 29, 2010

These priorities are not idealogical, non divisive, will save millions of lives. Many in the G8 are not delivering on their promised level of funding.  Let's get the G8 to address those priorities.

Our princess warrior Susan Riley should not be looking to California, Quebec as models of good government. Please provide evidence based facts why we should follow your idealogical agenda.

Help Save Ontario: When Green turns Red.

On Wind, Green Jobs, deficits. Please read this post by Sean Holt, print, discuss with family,co-workers.

As my research continued and my knowledge diversified, it became obvious wind, solar and bio-energy, even combined, are incapable of making a meaningful contribution to the huge amount of the energy humanity will need in order to replace fossil fuels, either now or into the future. This was a painful and expensive lesson recently learned the hard way by many countries. One need only look to Denmark, Spain, Germany and California for graphic demonstrations of the pitfalls of large-scale alternative energy installations. - Sean Holt

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